2.0 Library

Institutional Repositories

SESSION LEADERS:
--Philip Herold, Beth Kaplan,John Chapman all of The Digital Conservancy, University of Minnesota

Ning site which includes links to presentations:
http://libtechconference.ning.com/group/institutionalrepositories

What I found most useful:

Sherpa Romeo site
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php
A listing of publisher copyright policies. Search by journal or by publisher. Open Access information.

Posted at 12:07PM May 31, 2008 by Danielle P Loftus in Midwest Technology Conference 2008  |  Comments[0]

Clifford Lynch ASSIS&T 2007 Plenary Session

Clifford Lynch of the Center for Networked Information gave an overview of the electronic world of information during his plenary speech at the American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Conference, 2007 in Milwaukee, WI.

Particularly worth noting;

Digital library

•There is growth of interest in "virtual organizations." Fundamental idea is that of "collaboratory."
•There is a broad move to create digital surrogates of rare, unique/inaccessible material. Mostly non-book materials here. Museum tradition is “preserving authentic stuff” and consequently is in an interesting position.
+Tension between preserving the real thing and creating surrogates. Ability to create surrogates is getting very good; Lynch says we can create surrogates that are good enough to satisfy a broad cross-section of scholarly, educational, and recreational interests.
+Mediated viewing allows, for example, 3D views of sculptures (such as Michelangelo's David, I found his analogy so cool) from viewpoints you can't have as a museum-goer.

Museum goer must stand behind the ropes and look. Digital library lends value-added, high resolution view, multi-spectral, image enhancement to world-wide audience.

Digital libraries offer the ability to interact in new important ways (that’s sort of what web 2.0 is all about isn’t it).
+You can, of course, duplicate surrogates endlessly and cheaply. Part of good stewardship should involve making those surrogates available broadly -- to protect against natural or man-made disasters (digital library as disaster planning). So if original, or original surrogate, is lost -- record isn't gone. This is counter to culture of collecting -- but our world isn't the same as it was.

•Heads of major research libraries are in a tough place:
+increasing expenditures for resources for researchers
+budgets not kept up
+At same time, need huge investments in digitization and -- in long term to support data curation.
+There are sources of money for this, but they aren't plentiful. NSF; Datanet; private funding; start-up funding. This is all research and capability-building, not long-term. Lynch says funding will come out of traditional stewardship organizations.

Institutional repository

•Researchers have been looking at university publishing in the digital world. What is future of university presses? (It's ugly.)
+Correct question is, what were we trying to do when we created university press, and is the press the right structure for that today? Or, are there different opportunities to achieve those goals?
+Presses' purpose was to disseminate scholarship. Two notes: 1) History of university presses shows (Lynch thinks) that origins are complicated and less noble than you might think -- rationale includes procuring reasonably-priced printing services, for example; 2) is communicating scholarship part of fundamental mission of universities? In Netherlands, they have affirmed the latter point firmly; but not clear that's the case everywhere in U.S. Some institutions feel strongly yes -- that role of institution is to disseminate faculty's work (especially publicly-funded state universities); others, not so much.
+itunes U and YouTube broadcasts of classes -- a follow-on to support of history of public broadcasting at these state universities.

• Others feel that "publishing" belongs in technology transfer office. (Open Source movement in computer science departments conflicts directly with tech transfer, incidentally.)

• Libraries in universities are taking on "press-like" functions -- dissemination functions.
• A big challenge for universities: do universities have fundamental role in stewardship of intellectual research? This is a fundamental role of research library -- but without funding (at federal/cultural level). There's a squeeze; technology increases. Libraries underwrite cost of data storage and preservation, run repositories, etc. Other entities in university do this, too; archives, museums also do this work.

Posted at 09:40PM Nov 01, 2007 by Danielle P Loftus in Midwest Technology Conference 2008  |  Comments[0]

Hello.

How creative is that you say, 2.0 library... Well, that's what this blog is about; 2.0 apps and elements in a library. BTW, this page http://liswiki.org/wiki/Weblogs says that there are an awful lot of library blogs out there. When do people have the time I wonder? Anyway, more later. Next post will be about ASIS&T 2007 in Milwaukee, WI.

Posted at 04:06PM Oct 27, 2007 by Danielle P Loftus in General  |  Comments[2]