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UCL LIBRARY SERVICES

Digital Strategy: European Insights

Dr Paul Ayris

Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright Officer

e-mail: [email protected]


Contents

1. UCL

2. Institutional architectures

3. New themes? Google Generation? E-Books Primary data

4. Conclusions?


Contents

1. UCL


League Tables

World University rankings

1 Harvard University US2= University of Cambridge UK2= University of Oxford UK2= Yale University US5 Imperial College, London UK6 Princeton University US7= California Institute of Technology (Caltech) US7= University of Chicago US9 UCL (University College London) UK10 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US

http://www.topuniversities.com/worlduniversityrankings/results/2007/overall_rankings/top_100_universities/


Library Strategy2005-10

10 over-arching goals E-Strategy a priority for:

Teaching and Learning Research Student experience Partnership working

See http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/libstrat_may05.shtml


Contents

2. Institutional Architectures


User Interface

OptionalSub-

Gateway

Indexing &Metadata

DigitalContent

PaperContent

VLELibrary website

Freely available

A&I Databases

Library catalogues

UCL licensed

A&I databases

UCL owned

eUCLidE-Prints

Reading Lists

ScholarlyGatewayse.g. ArXiv

MetaLib

SFX

UCL owned

Special Colls archiveExam papers

E-Prints

UCL licensed

E-JournalsE-Books

Freely available

E-JournalsE-Books

Other full textDigital Course Readings

Books Journals Reading Lists Exam Papers etc.

Inter-connected e-services @ UCL


Digital challenges

Present architecture is systems-driven Needs to be user-centric

UCL’s requirements do not fit all modules Federated searching via MetaLib not heavily used

New services Digital curation and digital preservation of institutional content Join-up with campus-wide systems

Student Systems, Finance Systems, Alumni systems Networked versus institutional provision?


VRE/VLE/ local web

Student/UCL Library systems

Social networking tools Google interface to Internet

Prescribed core readingsand textbooks

Local UCL holdings

Paper and e-

External content subscribed and free

Research collaborations; Primary data; Group

project work; Learning interface

Pay fees; book residences;pay fines; see course andexam marks; see loans

information

Core textbooks (STM); Digital readings (AHSS)

Books/Journals/AV/Digital Collections

and Archives

YouTube, FaceBook, Flickr Global resources - freeE-Journals, E-Books,

mass digitisation

Institutional portal?


Key Strategic Question

British Museum Reading Room is traditional modelLibrary pulls readers into library space

In a networked and global environment, library is just one content provider In UCL, STM researchers hardly ever set foot into a physical library space

Digital material is pushed to them electronically at their desktop Should the Library push stuff out to where the student is (e.g. Facebook)?

Thanks to Lorcan Dempsey for this metaphor and discussion


Contents

3. New themes? Google Generation? E-Books Primary data


User response:The ‘Google Generation’?

Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future See http://www.bl.uk/news/2008/pressrelease20080116.html Research undertaken by CIBER at UCL

All age groups revealed to share ‘Google Generation’ traits Young people

Rely heavily on search engines View rather than read Do not possess the critical or analytical skills needed to assess the

information they find on the web

This has implications for the development of digital strategies


E-Books

SuperBook project at UCL Collaboration between UCL Library Services and UCL’s School of Library Archive and Information Studies See http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/research/ciber/superbook/ ‘With e-books available directly from anywhere on or off campus, and

portable readers capable of holding more than 100 books, the traditional academic library will need to examine the way it manages and delivers book collections. It is the users who will drive the e-book story forward; and, unlike earlier formats, no one is watching the users of this new breed of ‘super books’

Final Report available in Summer 2008Thanks to Dr Ian Rowlands, UCL SLAIS, for the following slides from a

Workshop at King’s College Cambridge, 30 August 2007


1st E-Textbooks: 58.9%

2nd Reference Books: 52.4%

3rd Research monographs: 46%

Initial findings from UCL’s SuperBook project


Primary data

RLUK (Research Libraries UK – formerly CURL) and RUGIT (Russell Group IT Directors) have issued an Invitation to Tender

£200,000 from HEFCE for a Feasibility Study into the development of a shared digital research data service for UK Higher Education Institutions

Locally, there is uncertainty about the costs involved in managing large data volumes and the availability of a suitably skilled workforce to manage the new challenges posed by data curation

Feasibility Study will address the need not just for storage capacity but for active management of the creation, selection, ingestion, storage, retrieval and preservation of research data - the data lifecycle

Global developments in data curation will inform Feasibility Study


Primary data

Primary data is vast Data from scientific experiments, statistical data, interviews … [etc] UCL currently auditing what types of primary data exist Role for the Library to oversee the curation?

Issues What is the platform and infrastructure? Libraries will work alongside academics to ensure metadata quality Skills and competencies of librarians will need to adapt

Liaison, subject understanding, archival and IPR awareness

New role for libraries


Contents

4. Conclusions?


Conclusions?

Libraries are changing Reflected in UCL Library Services’ Strategy

Institutional architectures Balance between local and network delivery is changing

Are users equipped for the brave new world? Role for libraries in Information Literacy and Fluency Programmes

Are E-Books the next big wave of e-content? E-Textbooks are very popular

Curation of Primary data a big new role for libraries


And finally…

Thanks for listening

Happy to hear comments

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