academic library andit services : different functions separated by common goals ?
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Academic Library and IT Services : Different Functions Separated by Common Goals ?. Robin Murray Vice President, Global Product Management OCLC. Who are we?. The largest library services and research organisation in the world. 72,000 libraries in 170 countries. 1,418. 5,715. 4,058. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Academic Library andIT Services:
Different Functions Separated by Common Goals?
Robin MurrayVice President, Global Product ManagementOCLC
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Who are we?
The largest library services and research organisation in the world
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72,000 libraries in 170 countries
1,41855,820
1,091
5,715 4,058
1,800
381
1,752
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OCLC is its members – a library owned, library governed co-operative
26,000+ institutions
Members
3 councils
Regional Councils
48 members
Global Council
16 trustees
Board of Trustees
Americas
EMEA
Asia Pacific
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Regional OCLC offices in Europe
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What do we do? – “The line of sight”
Vision
Mission
Enterprise Strategy
Key Objectives
Our enduringpurpose
Long term:Why we exist
Our strategicdirection
Mid term:How we will deliver
our vision and mission
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What do we do?
Vision
Mission
Enterprise Strategy
Key Objectives
Our enduringpurpose
Long term:Why we exist
Our strategicdirection
Mid term:How we will deliver
our vision and mission
The world’s libraries.
Connected Connecting people to knowledge through library cooperation.
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What do we do?
Vision
Mission
Enterprise Strategy
Key Objectives
Our enduringpurpose
Long term:Why we exist
Our strategicdirection
Mid term:How we will deliver
our vision and mission
To collaboratively build webscalewith libraries.
• Create system wide efficiencies in library management.
• Represent the full range of member collections and services where the library user is.
• Build global infrastructure which is responsive to local conditions.
• Advance the future of libraries through research, advocacy and community making.
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Agenda - AM
1. Welcome 10:30 – 10:45
2. Designing library workflows that start with ‘e’ 10:45 – 11:15
3. New learning behaviours that start with ‘u’ 11:15 – 12:00
4. LUNCH 12:00 – 12:45
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Agenda - PM6. Transformational not operational 12:45 – 1:30
– the future of HE library technology7. New approaches to data creation, 1:30 – 2:15
enrichment and connections
8. COFFEE 2:15 – 2:30
9.It’s their cloud, not yours! 2:30 – 3:15Future trends in personalisation
10. Balancing risk and reward – New models of 3:15 – 4:00internal and external service delivery for university IT
11. Questions, Summary & Close 4:00 – 4:30
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OCLC WorldShare: Cooperating and Innovating at Webscale
“Transformational not Operational”
Robin MurrayVice President, Global Product ManagementOCLC
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Libraries at Webscale Report
• Interviews
• Global Challenges/Issues
• Strategic Response
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Overview
• Library Challenges – An Analysis
• Strategic Response – WorldShare
• Where we are today:• The WorldShare Platform
• Apps - OCLC Built / Library Built / Partner Built
• Looking forward:• A tipping point?
• Building a network…
• Summary: The Value of Webscale
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Challenges…
Mainstream alternatives to Library Services
Demand declining for traditional services
New patron demands
Managing down print
E-books at a tipping point
Alignment to institutional/societal goals
Re-purposing
library space
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Challenges…
Mainstream alternatives to Library Services
Demand declining for traditional services
New patron demands
Managing down print
E-books at a tipping point
Alignment to institutional/societal goals
Re-purposing
library space
RelevanceEnsuring library relevance in an increasingly digital / online/
network level / Web-Scale world.
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Challenges…Relevance
Ensuring library relevance in an increasingly digital / online/ network level / Web-Scale world.
Library funding
Budget pressures
Global economy
Re-deploying
library staff
Outsourcing
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Challenges…
Library funding
Budget pressures
Global economy
Re-deploying
library staff
Outsourcing
EfficiencyMaintaining, improving and transforming library services in an
era of sustained downward budget pressure.
RelevanceEnsuring library relevance in an increasingly digital / online/
network level / Web-Scale world.
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Challenges…
EfficiencyMaintaining, improving and transforming library services in an
era of sustained downward budget pressure.
RelevanceEnsuring library relevance in an increasingly digital / online/
network level / Web-Scale world.
Users start in Google /
Google Scholar
Discovery starts
outside the library
Getting in user
workflows
Exposure of Library Services
Syndicating Library
Data
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Challenges…
EfficiencyMaintaining, improving and transforming library services in an
era of sustained downward budget pressure.
RelevanceEnsuring library relevance in an increasingly digital / online/
network level / Web-Scale world.
Users start in Google /
Google Scholar
Discovery starts
outside the library
Getting in user
workflows
Exposure of Library Services
Syndicating Library
Data
Meeting users at the point of need
Present users with the library services they need within their
mainstream workflows.
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Challenges…
EfficiencyMaintaining, improving and transforming library services in an
era of sustained downward budget pressure.
RelevanceEnsuring library relevance in an increasingly digital / online/
network level / Web-Scale world.
Meeting users at the point of need
Present users with the library services they need within their
mainstream workflows.
Breaking Down
Resource Silos
Licensed Resource Workflows
Managing Learning Objects
Digital integration /
mass digitization
Managing Down Print
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Challenges…
EfficiencyMaintaining, improving and transforming library services in an
era of sustained downward budget pressure.
RelevanceEnsuring library relevance in an increasingly digital / online/
network level / Web-Scale world.
Breaking Down
Resource Silos
Licensed Resource Workflows
Managing Learning Objects
Digital integration /
mass digitization
Managing Down Print
Unified Collection Management
Efficiently manage a collection spanning print, electronic and
digital material
Meeting users at the point of need
Present users with the library services they need within their
mainstream workflows.
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Challenges / Opportunities…
EfficiencyMaintaining, improving and transforming library services in an
era of sustained downward budget pressure.
RelevanceEnsuring library relevance in an increasingly digital / online/
network level / Web-Scale world.
Unified Collection Management
Efficiently manage a collection spanning print, electronic and
digital material
Meeting users at the point of need
Present users with the library services they need within their
mainstream workflows.
Increased Collaboratio
nShared
ServicesEconomies of Scale
Accelerate Innovation
SharingInnovation
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SharingInnovation
Accelerate Innovation
Increased Collaboratio
nShared
ServicesEconomies of Scale
Challenges / Opportunities…
EfficiencyMaintaining, improving and transforming library services in an
era of sustained downward budget pressure.
RelevanceEnsuring library relevance in an increasingly digital / online/
network level / Web-Scale world.
Unified Collection Management
Efficiently manage a collection spanning print, electronic and
digital material
Meeting users at the point of need
Present users with the library services they need within their
mainstream workflows.
Collaboration & InnovationSupport greater collaboration and innovation between libraries.
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Strategic Response…
EfficiencyMaintaining, improving and transforming library services in an
era of sustained downward budget pressure.
RelevanceEnsuring library relevance in an increasingly digital / online/
network level / Web-Scale world.
Unified Collection Management
Efficiently manage a collection spanning print, electronic and
digital material
Meeting users at the point of need
Present users with the library services they need within their
mainstream workflows.
Collaboration & InnovationSupport greater collaboration and innovation between libraries.
Strategic Initiative to Collaboratively build Web-scale with Libraries. • Increase the relevance and visibility of libraries in a
‘web-scale’ world• Increase efficiencies and reduce costs.
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Strategic Response…
EfficiencyMaintaining, improving and transforming library services in an
era of sustained downward budget pressure.
RelevanceEnsuring library relevance in an increasingly digital / online/
network level / Web-Scale world.
Unified Collection Management
Efficiently manage a collection spanning print, electronic and
digital material
Meeting users at the point of need
Present users with the library services they need within their
mainstream workflows.
Collaboration & InnovationSupport greater collaboration and innovation between libraries.
Strategic Initiative to Collaboratively build Web-scale with Libraries. • Increase the relevance and visibility of libraries in a
‘web-scale’ world• Increase efficiencies and reduce costs.
Web-Scale Data, Discovery and Syndication Services
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Strategic Response…
EfficiencyMaintaining, improving and transforming library services in an
era of sustained downward budget pressure.
RelevanceEnsuring library relevance in an increasingly digital / online/
network level / Web-Scale world.
Unified Collection Management
efficiently manage a collection spanning print, electronic and
digital material
Meeting users at the point of need
Present users with the library services they need within their
mainstream workflows.
Collaboration & InnovationSupport greater collaboration and innovation between libraries.
Strategic Initiative to Collaboratively build Web-scale with Libraries. • Increase the relevance and visibility of libraries in a
‘web-scale’ world• Increase efficiencies and reduce costs.
Web-Scale management of library services across Print,
Licensed & Digital
Web-Scale Data, Discovery and Syndication Services
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Collaboration & InnovationSupport greater collaboration and innovation between libraries.
Strategic Response…
EfficiencyMaintaining, improving and transforming library services in an
era of sustained downward budget pressure.
RelevanceEnsuring library relevance in an increasingly digital / online/
network level / Web-Scale world.
Unified Collection Management
efficiently manage a collection spanning print, electronic and
digital material
Meeting users at the point of need
Present users with the library services they need within their
mainstream workflows.
Strategic Initiative to Collaboratively build Web-scale with Libraries. • Increase the relevance and visibility of libraries in a
‘web-scale’ world• Increase efficiencies and reduce costs.
Collaboration & InnovationSupport greater collaboration and innovation between libraries.
Support library collaboration and innovation at scale, by providing an open, Web-scale technical infrastructure.
Web-Scale management of library services across Print,
Licensed & Digital
Web-Scale Data, Discovery and Syndication Services
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Strategic Initiative to Collaboratively build Web-scale with Libraries. • Increase the relevance and visibility of libraries in a
‘web-scale’ world• Increase efficiencies and reduce costs.
Collaboration & InnovationSupport greater collaboration and innovation between libraries.
Support library collaboration and innovation at scale, by providing an open, Web-scale technical infrastructure.
Web-Scale management of library services across Print,
Licensed & Digital
Web-Scale Data, Discovery and Syndication Services
Platform Management
Infrastructure
Data
Web Services
App Gallery
• The core infrastructure underlying all OCLC applications.
• Designed from the ground up for Web-Scale operations
Open to the community to enable:• Integration• “Collective Innovation”• Sharing
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Platform ManagementData
Web Services
App Gallery
Infrastructure
Data Centers Today:
US1
US2 EMEA 1
• 600Tb of Online Storage• 4,000 Virtual Machines• High Resilience• Geographically distributed for Legal, Data
Protection and Performance
CAN 1
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Infrastructure
• Based on technology developed by Google for very-scale data processing (Big Data)
• Apache Open Source project
• Provides rapid data processing using massive clusters of commodity servers
• WorldCat now operating on to a Hadoop cluster of 50 servers – no effect on production services.
• eBay recently did the same thing.
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Infrastructure
• Allows different things to be done
• Enables things to be done differently
• Pre-requisite for Analytics and Linked Data
• Building block for future library innovation• Infrastructure made available to the community through the WorldShare Platform
Process Using Oracle Using HadoopMonthly Google Extract 12 days 2 hoursQuarterly Collection Analysis
~2 months 3 hours
FRBR Algorithm 6 months 28 hoursLinked data processing Couldn’t be done hours
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289+ million bibliographic records
1.9+ billion holdings
801 million records34 million items
(Institutional repositories, Google, HathiTrust, OAIster)
Bibliographic information in
WorldCat
Licensed digital content/articles in library collections
Digitized local library content
As of 18 January 2013
Web Services
Applications
Infrastructure
Data
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Data
Flexible, open platform for the community to share applications and innovation
Co-operative M
anagement
Libraries
Regional MetadataHubs
Real-tim
e Synchronization
Supply Chains
Publishers Database Providers Mass Digitization
Bibliographic information in WorldCat
Licensed digital content/articles in library collections
Digitizedlocal library content
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Platform Management
App Gallery
Data
Infrastructure
Web ServicesWeb Services
Flexible, open platform for the community to share applications and innovation
OpenURL Web Services
QuestionPoint KnowledgeBase Web Services
Acquisitions Web Services
Circulation Web Services
WorldCat Web Services
KnowledgeBase Web Services
WorldCat Registry Web Services
WorldCat Identities Web Services
Identifier Web Services
Vendor Information Web Services
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Community
Platform Management
Infrastructure
Data
Web Services
App Gallery
Flexible, open platform for the community to share applications and innovation
Applications/Apps…
• ANYONE can develop on the WorldShare Platform
• Currently ~80 Community Developed Apps
• Plus OCLC ‘Core’ Applications
Library Built Partner Built OCLC Built
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Platform Management
Infrastructure
Data
Web Services
App Gallery
Library Built Partner Built
Community
Flexible, open platform for the community to share applications and innovation
OCLC Built
OCLC Built Applications….
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• 100 libraries now fully live worldwide with
OCLC WorldShare Management Services
• Having fully decommissioned their old ILS
• A further ~100 in implementation (taking 3-6 months)
OCLC Built Applications….OCLC Built
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Platform Management
Infrastructure
Data
Web Services
App Gallery
Partner Built OCLC Built
Community
Flexible, open platform for the community to share applications and innovation
Library App Examples…
Library Built
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Library App Examples…
Acquisitions plug-in Apps…
Library Built
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Library App Examples…
Expose library services & create citations in Facebook
Library Built
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Developed by Andrea Schurr, University of Tennessee Chattanooga
Library App Examples…
Direct users from the computer to the shelf…
Library Built
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Platform Management
Infrastructure
Data
Web Services
App Gallery
OCLC BuiltLibrary Built
Community
Flexible, open platform for the community to share applications and innovation
Partner Examples…
Partner Built
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Partner Examples: EBSCO EDSIntegration with Discovery Interface
Partner Built
Discovery solutions like EBSCO’s EDS communicates with WMS via Web services:• To get up-to-the second
item information
• To facilitate patron-initiated holds and other activity
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Partner Examples: SCSProvisioning Data to Enhance Analytics
Partner Built
SCS Greenglass communicates with WorldCat
to get regional/state,
national, and peer holdings, enabling libraries to get a fuller picture in
deselection decisions.
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Partner Examples: EasyBib & GoodReadsLocate an Item in a Library
Partner Built
EasyBib and GoodReads use OCLC
services to help patrons locate
items of interest in nearby libraries.
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Partner Examples: YelpIntegrating into Location-Based Services
Partner Built
The OCLC Registry provides
library data to Yelp, enabling patrons to find
libraries in its city guides – right
alongside other businesses and organizations.
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Partner Examples…Partner Built
Putting library services where users are…
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Looking Forward…
• A tipping point in the WorldShare Initiative?
• Collaboratively Building Webscale with Libraries…
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Tipping Point?
• Webscale is all about scale…
• OCLC can help libraries build scale…– ~9,000 libraries use cataloging
– ~10,000 libraries use ILL
– ~20,000 libraries use FirstSearch
• All these applications and libraries are moving to the WorldShare platform…
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Provide a single integrated set of management services for libraries to improve visibility and efficiency, including services from OCLC, partners and libraries
WorldShare Metadata (Cataloging)
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WorldShare Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
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Consolidating interfaces(WorldCat Local, FirstSearch, WorldCat.org)
WorldCat LocalFirstSearch WorldCat.org
Single Discovery interface—multiple views, multiple devices, adaptive functionality
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Tens of thousands of Libraries
Syndication Partners – generating millions of referrals to libraries
Millions of Scholars, UsersCreators
Hundreds of Business Partners
WorldShare Community : Connecting the Library Network
Hundreds of Software Developers
… To increase library relevance and efficiency.
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For libraries, the WorldShare Network offers the ability to:
1. Register your library and its collections, policies and expertise— configuring the network.
2. Efficiently share the task of metadata creation and management.
3. Enrich, mine and share data, adding value to your library’s, users’ and partners’ services.
4. Syndicate your library presence widely, increasing visibility through popular Web and mobile services.
5. Build new services using Web services and linked data.
6. Share your innovations and use those of other participants.
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The World’s Libraries. Connected.