department library in the google era - november 2008

Disg Biblioteca - mj crowley Rome, 14 November 2008

Role of the Department Library in the Google Era: a perspective

The advent of the WEB has

radically changed how science is communicated and, also, the role

of libraries Images uploaded from web for educational purposes


The GooZone

The Libraries of Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, the University

of Oxford, and The New York Public

Library Join with Google to Digitally Scan Library Books and Make Them Searchable Online


So what do we do now, librarians ask ?


Researchers’ use of academic libraries and services

With the availability of

digital sources researchers no longer attend the Faculty Libraries

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LUND UNIVERSITY

The Physical Library

”There has been a sharp fall over the past fiveyears in the number of researchers who visit their institution’s library regularly.”


The Department Library

• as place

• as community

• that wants to share information

• exchange ideas

• collaborate

• participate in the learning experience

• personalise resources


Some answers

• source new content/services/tools manage licenses • make information accessible via the Web and inform

through dissemination and retrieval, stay informed• collect and digitise archival content, maintain digital

repositories, enable copyright compliance• identify “Personal Information Management” tools

and strategies for precision research on the net• channel emerging technologies and follow prevailing

trends• facilitate researchers migrating to new services and

tools


From diffusion……..

• unbound products of scholarship

• network shared products

• Blogs, wikis, recommenders, flickr,

slideshare, technorati…….


……to concentration


PUTTING THE LIBRARY IN THE FLOW

• give visibility to the University’s resources

• guide the user to the resources best suited to their work

help users organise the information in their own space

make the library co-evolve with technology


Socialisation tools in the library


aNobii – social bookmarking


• Description, content, keywords

• Recommends similar books

• Where it has been cited

• Where can I find it in a library

• Wish lists, similar shelves, stats


Responsibility for the curation of the intellectual outputs of researchers

• DISG WEBCASTS

• DIGITAL LIBRARY REPOSITORY

• COPYRIGHT COMPLIANCE


Other services

• Document delivery• Inter library loans• In-house seminars • Enhance information literacy - help users can shape their own library space

- attend our lecturers’ classes and seminars - develop online tutorials


You don’t have any books do you?

• And, yes, we still continue to collect, catalogue and loan books…

• but, e-books too !


My library

- boundaries between different types of information are continually blurring

- our students are the net generation, born to share and collaborate

- concentrate and channel our users to our content - create a community

- nurture a clear understanding of what we as a

department library are doing in the Google era

department library in the google era - november 2008

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