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Developing European Library Services in Changing Times
Dr Paul Ayris Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright OfficerPresident of LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries)
E-mail: [email protected]: UCL LIBER
10th Anniversary special EISZ Consortium Members’ Meeting 2 December 2011, Budapest, Hungary
Contents
1. Economic crisis and the impact on library budgets
2. Shared Cataloguing – the Next Generation
3. European Research Area – libraries as research infrastructure
4. Conclusions
Economic crisis and the impact on library budgets In the current economic crisis, what should libraries do?
Joint Procurement Collaborate to innovate through Shared Services Fundraising
Contracts to run new services for third partiesEU Project funding / national project fundingPhilanthropic funding
Secure the robustness of your management information, so that all your decisions are evidence-based
Joint Procurement
JISC Collections procures digital content for UK HE JISC Electronic Information Resources Working Group acts as
Steering Group for this activity
JISC Collections oversees Big Deal purchases for the Higher and Further Education communities Rationale is that the bigger the consortium which comes to the
table, the bigger the saving that can be made Efficiency gains of £50 million for members in 2009-10
Recent successes
Hardline negotiation with academic publishers One publisher wanted c. 25% increase in one year Average price increases being negotiated is c. 2-2.5% a year Explicitly because of the economic downturn
New features to negotiated deals Single payment, with JISC Collections paying the invoice to the
publisher and collecting the dues from participants, who opt in to the deal
Invoices being paid in £ sterling, not € euros
Contents
1. Economic crisis and the impact on library budgets
2. Shared Cataloguing – the Next Generation
3. European Research Area – libraries as research infrastructure
4. Conclusions
The Problem
Our key finding is that the current arrangements for producing and distributing bibliographic data for both books and journals involve duplications of efforts, gaps in the available data, and missed opportunities. ...[T]here would be considerable benefits if libraries, and other organisations in the supply chain, were to operate more at the network level.
Open and Linked Data
The Open Knowledge Foundation identifies a number of advantages to libraries opening up their bibliographic data:Shared cataloguingNew services
Linked Data refers to a set of Best Practices for connecting structured data on the web
Open and Linked Data
Library catalogue becomes re-positioned in terms of its relationship to the wider context of the web, and the social network of links that the web represents
Benefits to a shared approachCost savingsImproved access
Recommendations
Best solution is for a cloud-based implementation to stand in for both local and central management of systemsLocal library management functions Centrally shared metadata catalogue (community zone)
Metadata issues will need to be addressedDuplication of records for same item needs to be
replaced by concept of Master record
Recommendations
RLUK databases need to be re-positioned in the wider context of the webExpand coverage to include new media types, e.g. blogs,
wikis, Open Access content, E-Books Shared cataloguing service reduces the footprint of local
library management system and so will re-define how libraries work
Recommendations
Top-level Recommendations
That funding is identified to investigate the requirements and feasibility of a shared UK cataloguing service
To co-sponsor with the JISC a full cost-benefit analysis of providing an overall, above-campus shared cataloguing system solution
Contents
1. Economic crisis and the impact on library budgets
2. Shared Cataloguing – the Next Generation
3. European Research Area – libraries as research infrastructure
4. Conclusions
LERU Roadmap Towards Open Access
A consortium of 22 research-intensive universities in Europe See http://www.leru.org/index.php/public/home/
LERU is committed to Education through an awareness of the frontiers of human understanding Creation of new knowledge through basic research, which is the ultimate
source of innovation in society Promotion of research across a broad front, which creates a unique
capacity to re-configure activities in response to new opportunities and problems
The purpose of the League is to advocate these values, to influence policy in Europe and to develop best practice through mutual exchange of experience
LERU
LERU wanted to know what position, if any, it should take on the Open Access debate
General meeting of LERU Chief Information Officers/University Librarians in December 2009 Appointed a Working Group to draw up a LERU Roadmap
towards Open Access Road Map was considered by LERU Vice-Chancellors at their
meetings in London (2009) and Paris (2010) Launched in Brussels on 17 June 2011
LERU
Purpose of the Roadmap is to offer guidance on how to position your University in the European Open Access landscape
Builds on the Open Access Statement of the European Universities Association See http://www.eua.be/eua-work-and-policy-area/research-and-
innovation/Open-Access.aspx A Roadmap for all European Universities, not just LERU
members
LERU
Open Access in a wider context: Open Scholarship and Open Knowledge
The Green route for Open Access – Steps to Take LERU and the Gold route for Open Access Models of Best Practice to support the Roadmap Benefits for researchers, Universities and Society LERU is considering European E-Press developments
Agreed at Workshop on 28 November 2011 to consider pan-European infrastructure for LERU members interested in Open Access Publishing
Contents
1. Economic crisis and the impact on library budgets
2. Shared Cataloguing – the Next Generation
3. European Research Area – libraries as research infrastructure
4. Conclusions
Conclusions
Economic crisis is an opportunity as well as a threat Collaboration through Shared Services is a way forward
Libraries have to re-position themselves in the Information Landscape in order to stay relevant RLUK’s Shared Cataloguing Initiative a model for future
development
Open Access is part of the European research infrastructure Libraries playing a leading role in taking this forward
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