Collaborative resource discovery: researchers needs for navigation in a sea of information

OCLC Membership Meeting

• The online world

• Scholars and their environment

• Libraries

• Collaboration: needs and models

Times of change

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Winds of change

http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2012/03/change/

Change: It’s Okay. Really. Since 1768. Really.

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Pew research

http://www.pewinternet.org/Presentations/2012/Mar/NROC.aspx

iPads even a 2 year old can use them

Is a 2 year old a model for researchers?

Locking up access to information

• Deep web• When is open really open• Risks to research, teaching and learning

and collaboration• Locking up is more than big publishers• Up to 75% of government “publications”

disappear in a decade

What is happening in the academy

mrkuroud.tumblr.com/

After ipad?

http://politicsjob.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/look-like-pro-clear-off-that-messy-desk.html

Dense information

Read short segments Can use dense complex publication

browse reading

annotations – an impossible dream

Marginalia, the print experience

Access to lots of information – reliable, long term?

Quality – role of scholarly publishersMany versions

Mobile and tablets vs print

Debates

• Joseph Konrath “Amazon will destroy you”

• Emma Wright. “The future of the book business”– Publishing quality– Reading (esp children)– Market and value

• Neil Gaiman - publishers must be like dandelions

Remembering and knowing

• Students operate in print and e environments

• Garland study– Small differences but– More repetition required for digital texts to impart the

same information – Book readers digest material more easily

(Szalavitz, Maria “Do e-books make it harder to remember what you just read?”)

A future narrative• Digital coevolution

(Nick Harkaway)

• Nicholas Carr “Is Google making us stupid?”

Game changes

• Google

• What is a publication? What is Data?

• Open access

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Google: licence to hunt

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http://www.public-domain-image.com/sport-public-domain-images-pictures/fishing-and-hunting-public-domain-images-pictures/camouflaged-hunters-hunt-birds-at-night.jpg.html

data vs publishing

http://datavisualization.ch/showcases/just-landed-a-twitter-visualization-in-processing/

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Open access

But a total conversion will be slow in coming, because scientists still have every economic incentive to submit their papers to high-prestige subscription journals. The subscriptions tend to be paid for by campus libraries, and few individual scientists see the costs directly. From their perspective, publication is effectively free.

(Van Noorden, 2013)

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Government informaiton

• President Obama’s Executive Order directs government-held data be made more accessible to the public and to entrepreneurs and others as fuel for innovation and economic growth. (9 May 2013)

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Libraries

Libraries

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Collections

• What makes a collection?

• Curation

• Corpus of knowledge

• Collaboration

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/paullew/3487810383/

Resource discovery

• All for one and one for all?• Defining content• Scholar needs• When researchers cannot get

hold of a work in their library, 87% (US) and 90% (UK) often or occasionally search for a free online version. (Schonfeld)

http://listverse.com/2007/10/26/15-funny-street-signs/

• What value is location?

• Collaboration a new frontier?

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• MOOCs new environment – many opportunities beyond traditional academic outcomes

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Small beauty By SharonPerretthttp://www.flickr.com/photos/81494696@N00/287199385/

• Are we “run over by technology”?

• Sir Bruce Williams Boyer lecture 1982

• What must we do to demonstrate value? Flexibility, evolution

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… the electronic screen lends the text within its frame the eternally pristine appearance of a newly cut page, and this produces in me a distancing feeling that, like Brecht’s dramatic techniques, allows me a freer reading, uncluttered by the sense of labouring under previous perusals by myself and others.Alberto Manguel cited in Barmé

Either you print things out, and find yourself oppressed by piles of documents you’ll never read, or you read online, but as soon as you click onto the next page you forget what you’ve just read, the very thing that has brought you to the page now on your screenAlberto Manguel cited in Barmé

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Repositioning and Renewal of a National Asset. Canberra, ASAA. http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/ASAA/asia-knowledge-book-v70.pdf

• Australian Government. (2012) Australia in the Asian Century : white paper. Canberra: Australia in the Asian Century Implementation Task Force. http://asiancentury.dpmc.gov.au/white-paper/

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• Boston College, Daniel R. Coquillette Rare Book Room (2010) Recent additions to the collection – Fall 2010: An illustrated guide to the exhibit. http://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/schools/law_sites/library/pdf/RBR_items/pdf/F10RecentAcqsExhibitHandout.pdf

• Britannica Editors (2012) Change: It’s Okay. Really. Encyclopaedia Britannica Blog. http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2012/03/change/

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dge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925. 

• Rainie, L. (2012) The Shifting Education Landscape: Networked Learning, Pew Research. http://www.pewinternet.org/Presentations/2012/Mar/NROC.aspx

• Schonfeld, R. (2013) “The Space Between: Our latest Ithaka S+R Issue Brief pinpoints where US faculty members and UK academics diverge and asks why?” http://www.sr.ithaka.org/blog-individual/space-between

• Szalavitz, M. (2012) Do E-Books Make It Harder to Remember What You Just Read? TimeHealthland. http://healthland.time.com/2012/03/14/do-e-books-impair-memory/

• telstarlogistics (2010) A 2.5 Year-Old Has A First Encounter with An iPad, YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT4EbM7dCMs

• Tenopir, C. (2013) Scholarly Reading in a Digital Age: Some things change, some stay the same. Presentation given at ANU.

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• Wright, E. (2010) The Future of the Book Business: A Classicist’s View, Futurebook blog. http://www.futurebook.net/content/future-book-business-classicist’s-view

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