the cloud and the commons
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The Cloud and the CommonsTom IpriUniversity of Nevada, Las [email protected]
The Monterey Area Cooperative Library System
April 8, 2010
Vegas as Place
Presentation Spaces
Library As Place
Moveable furniture
Wireless infrastructure
Laptop support
Group workstations
Group study rooms
Multimedia production and editing
Rich application suite
Library As Place
Laptop loans
Large scale printers
White boards
Smart boards
Tutoring services
Writing services
Vending machines
Practice presentation room
Commons Information“a cluster of network
access points and associated IT tools situated in the context of physical, digital, human, and social resources organized in support of learning”
Learning“organized in
collaboration with learning initiatives sponsored by other academic units, or aligned with learning outcomes defined through a cooperative process”
-Donald Beagle, 2006
WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH CLOUD COMPUTING?
The idea of the library commons is all about the physical location
The cloud removes the physical location from the equation
Notes from the Past
“Staff in the School of Information Systems at the University…say that within five years they will not need a physical library. All their requirements will be met by the Web.”
-David Baker, 1998
Notes from the Past
“A scenario gaining increasing currency is that the arrival of information superhighways, together with the development of ever more user-friendly software and cheaper hardware spells the end of the need for libraries and librarians. It is an endless debate — unless it eventually happens.”
-Ross Shimmon, 1995
Notes from the Past
“A library could take shape within a computer where users literally enter through the doors of a virtual building, see stacks and books on the shelves, browse the catalogue, select a volume, open and read a text, converse with a librarian at a remote location and finally check out their chosen material.”
-Jonathan Willson, 1995
Second life
PredictionsClose physical librariesIntegrate into virtual reality
“The idea of a learning commons…is pretty mainstream now. But if you had suggested such a thing four or five years ago, people would have said ‘You want to do what with my space?’ Today, you’re in trouble if you don’t have one.”
-Joseph Branin, April 2008
Who Needs Libraries When Everything is on the Web?
Year Circulation Reference
1996 231,500,000 1,900,000
1998 216,100,000 2,100,000
2000 194,000,000 1,600,000
2002 189,248,000 1,508,000
2004 200,204,000 1,423,000
2006 187,236,000 1,101,000
2008 178,766,000 1,080,000
%Change -22.8% -43.2%
National Center for Education Statistics
Who Needs Libraries When Everything is on the Web?
Year Circulation Reference Gate Count
1996 231,500,000 1,900,000 16,500,000
1998 216,100,000 2,100,000 16,200,000
2000 194,000,000 1,600,000 16,500,000
2002 189,248,000 1,508,000 16,927,000
2004 200,204,000 1,423,000 19,369,000
2006 187,236,000 1,101,000 18,765,712
2008 178,766,000 1,080,000 20,274,000
%Change -22.8% -43.2% +22.9%
National Center for Education Statistics
The Big Question
Does Cloud Computing Present a Similar Threat to the Future of Libraries?
The Big Answer
Depends
Service OrientationSoftware-as-a-Service (SaaS) Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
Software on demand◦Google Docs◦Aviary◦Evernote◦Zotero◦LibGuides
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
focus on providing a hosted platform on which a specific application can be deployed. This platform is often some provisioned space and computing resources from a hosting company running a pre-configured set of tools. Organizations can deploy a locally developed or managed application on the platform but do not manage the underlying server infrastructure.
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
Google AppEngineForce.comBungee ConnectLongJumpWaveMaker
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)allow users to provision servers,
storage space, and networking components to meet their computing needs.Google App EngineHerokuJoyentAmazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2
)
The Big Example
Who Needs Libraries When Everything is in the Cloud?
“[Library] Buildings will move more fully into their current dual nature, that of warehouse and gathering place, while our services and our content will live in the cloud, away from any physical place.”
-Jason Griffey Oct 2008
References “Academic Libraries: 2008 First Look.” National Center
for Education Statistics. http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2010/2010348/index.asp
“Academic Libraries: 2006 First Look.” National Center for Education Statistcs. http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2008337
Baker, David. “The Multimedia Librarian in the Twenty-First Century.” Librarian Career Development 6.10 (1998): 3.
Beagle, Donald Robert. The Information Commons Handbook. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2006
Griffey, Jason. “Stranger Than We Know.” Library Journal. 15 Oct 2008. http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6599046.html
References Keene, Chris. “What Is a Platform As a Service?”
Javalobby. 23 Mar 2009. http://java.dzone.com/articles/what-platform-service-paas
Martell, Charles. “The Absent User: Physical Use of Academic Library Collections and Services Continues to Decline 1995-2006. The Journal of Academic Librarianship. 34.5 (2008) 400.
Mitchell, Erik. “Using Cloud Services for Library IT Infrastructure.” The Code4Lib Journal 9 (22 Mar 2010).
Shimmon, Ross. “The Librarian at the End of the Galaxy.” New Library World 96.1120 (1995): 43.
Willson, Jonathan. “Enter the Cyberpunk Librarian: Future Directions in Cyberspace.” Library Review 44.8 (1995): 63.
