rethinking the boundaries of the library
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Evolving Scholarly Record and Evolving Stewardship Ecosystem—San Francisco Workshop
Jim Michalko
Vice President, Research Libraries
June 2, 2015
Sir Francis Drake Hotel
#esrworkshop
Rethinking the Boundaries of the Library
produced with contributions by Lorcan Dempsey, Brian Lavoie, Constance Malpas
Overview
• Library as it was– economics, education, research
• How this shaped library structure and services• Change – network, mandates, ESR• Re-organizing and re-structuring• How this shapes where future activities occur
implications of ESR choices on library boundaries and
operations
Rethinking the boundaries of the academic library
“Pull” of the Network “Push” of Economics
Academic Libraries
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Library as it wasWhy?
It was more economical to have a physical collection than to send researchers or students to the information.
It was useful to locate all the needed information resources for research and learning physically close to the work.
Local collections were assets and contributed competitively to scholarly output
Consider the town squarein the United States…
Network is reducing transaction costs …
Computing and network technologies …
… reduce the cost of establishing & managing interactions with external parties …
… which creates incentive to re-assess mix of internalized & externalized activities …
… which reconfigures organizational boundaries (i.e., boundaries of the library)
Examples
Company
ResearchLibrary
CORE COMPONENTS OF A FIRM
CustomerRelationshipManagement Product
Innovation
Infrastructure
Back office capacities thatsupport day-to-day operations“Routinized” workflows•Economies of scale important
Develop new products andservices and bring them tomarket•Speed/flexibility important
Attracting and building relationships with customers“Service-oriented”, customization•Economies of scope important
Internalizemore of this
Externalizemore of this
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http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/mmproceedings/160mm-proceedings.shtml#collsWendy Lougee at the 4 May 2012 ARL Membership Meeting Chicago, IL
The new rules
HathiTrust
Multi-scalar strategies
HathiTrust
CIC
HathiTrust
HathiTrust
Columbia
WEST
2CULReCAP
HathiTrust
HathiTrust
HathiTrust
MARLI
HathiTrust
HathiTrust
UC
UCLA
RLF
Harvard
HD
Widener
simultaneous participation in cooperative efforts operating at multiple scales ?
OhioLINK
Figure: Multi-scalar library partnerships. OCLC Research, 2014.
(Re)-organizing -structuringStructure to support strategy
Event(s) Opportunity
User-centered
University alignment
Shared Services
Extra-library skill sets
Specific gravity of services
Community of Practice
Success essentials•Principles•Advance management•Communication•Master space plan
Shared Services
Shared Services
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Case Western Reserve University
Shared Services
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Transformation of the academic libraryKurt de Belderhttp://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/events/dss/ppt/dss_debelder.pptx
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Framing the Scholarly Record …
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In practice …
arXiv, SSRN, RePEc, PubMed Central (disciplinary repositories that have become important discovery hubs);
Google Scholar, Google Books, Amazon (ubiquitous discovery and fulfillment hubs);
Mendeley, ResearchGate (services for social discovery and scholarly reputation management);
Goodreads, LibraryThing (social description/reading sites);
Wikipedia, Yahoo Answers, Khan Academy (hubs for open research, reference, and teaching materials).
GalaxyZoo, FigShare, OpenRefine (data storage and manipulation tools)
Github (software management)
Tools of the new scholarly record
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Herbert Van de SompelOCLC ESR, Evanston, IL, March 23 2015
Wouter HaakElsevier, VP Product StrategyLIBER, Riga, 2014
Record
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Herbert Van de SompelOCLC ESR, Evanston, IL, March 23 2015
Recording versus Archiving
Recording ArchivingShort-term Longer-term
No guarantees provided Attempt to provide guarantees
Write many/read many Write once/Read many
Scholarly process Scholarly record
Herbert Van de SompelOCLC ESR, Evanston, IL, March 23 2015
Library Service
Opportunity?
Provided by ?
Library Involvement?
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Library Relationshi
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Thank You!
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Look forward to discussion this afternoon –Collaboration with external entities
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