1. Where
Who
What
Why
How
2013North Carolina Serials Conference
Rachel L. Frick
Director, Digital Library Federation
Council on Library and information Resources
2. Preamble
• My Perspective
o Serialist,Vendor, NC-AHEC circuit
librarian, TechServices, Digitization, Federal grants
officer,
o Community Builder
• Current organization
o CLIR – Council on Library and Information Resources
• The DLF – Digital Library Federation
o @CLIRDLF www.diglib.org
3. There is a lot going on…
• Shared Print Archives
• Open Access
• DPLA
• DPN
• APTrust
• DDA, PDA,
• RDA & RDA
• BibFRAME
• Linked Data
4. Its an exciting time to be a
Librarian. Really.
“It’s the end of the world as we know it
(And I feel fine).”~R.E.M.
5. “I believe that we are at the threshold. But
just at the very threshold—the very
.. beginning. The incunabula period of the
digital age.”
T. Scott Plutchak
Breaking the Barriers of Time and Space
J Med Libr Assoc. 2012 January; 100(1): 10–19.
doi: 10.3163/1536-5050.100.1.004
…and it’s just Beginning
6. The Network…
• Multiple Communities
• Interdisciplinarity
• Leverage Local Expertise
• Amplifies Local Excellence
• Networked, Lee Raine & Barry Wellman
• Almost EVERY presentation by Lorcan Dempsey since
2005,(a good one is from a LIBER symposium in 2008 -
http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/presentations/dempsey/lir.
ppt
…changes Everything
8. Macro-Solutions
• Above Campus Services
John Wilkin, Paul Courant, Educause Review, August 2010
• Service as Infrastructure
• DataOne, DPN, HathiTrust, shared print archives
• CLIR annual Report 2009-2010
http://www.clir.org/pubs/annual/previous-annual-
reports/annual_archive.html/10annrep.pdf
9. Cloud Library
• Distributed Shared Print Network
o Made possible by HathiTrust
o OCLC Cloud Library Report, C. Malpas
o Report – Print Management at Mega-Scale
http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2012/2012-05r.html
• ReCAP - http://recap.princeton.edu/
• WEST - http://www.cdlib.org/services/west/about/
• ASERL / University of Florida: US Gov Docs
o http://www.aserl.org/programs/gov-doc/
• Maine Shared Print - http://www.maineinfonet.net/mscs/
• Organizational Node: Center for Research Libraries
o Print Archive Community Forum
http://www.crl.edu/archiving-preservation/print-archives/forum
14. Open
“A piece of data or
content is open if
Anyone is free to
use, reuse and
redistribute data
and/or content –
subject only, at
most, to the
requirement to
attribute and/ or
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cornelluniversitylibrary/3855920935/
share-alike”.
15. Open for Business
• Walters museum
o Donated 19,000 frelly licensed images to Wikimedia
• Rijks museum /Studio
16. Not Business as Usual
• Its All Local
o “Local Collections are the Dark matter of a Linked Data world” ~ Susan
Hildreth, Director IMLS, DPLAWest 2012
• Bringing your Community to the world
Turning Collection Development Inside
Out, Dorthea Salo. http://vimeo.com/20019850
• Broaden you scope
• Allow for Serendipty
17. • The Mission of Librarians is to Improve
Society through Facilitating Knowledge
Creation in their Communities
R. David Lankes
Atlas of New Librariship
http://www.newlibrarianship.org/wordpress/
It’s our mission
18. Service Turn
“Defining distinctive services with the clarity with which
we have defined distinctive collections allows us to
acknowledge that the 21st century will be marked by
different, but equally valid, definitions of excellence in
academic libraries, and that the manner in which
individual libraries demonstrate excellence will be
distinctive to the service needs, and to the
opportunities to address those needs, found on each
campus.”
Scott Walter. “Distinctive Signifiers of Excellence”: Library Services and
the Future of the Academic Library. Coll. & res. libr. January 2011 72:6-
19. Library or Librarianship?
• Its not about the books
• We need to choose:
the building or the
communities ?
• A degree does not
define us
20. Librarians needed
• David Weinberger – Too Big to Know
http://www.toobigtoknow.com/
• Bethany Nowviskie – Too Small to Fail
http://nowviskie.org/2012/too-small-to-fail/
• Alistair Croll – A Billion Bad Librarians
http://erl2013.sched.org/event/393e3c246af45e565c
7314e6f097467a#.UUE9A1t35XA
21. Be part* of the conversation
• Conversations build new Knowledge
o Engage, Listen, resist the urge to broadcast
• Talk to someone new
• Contribute constructively
• Snark less, listen more
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcwathieu/2979581445/
22. Librarians without
Borders
• Roam where you want to
• Get out of the Box
• Don’t be pigeonholed
• Be a traveller, stay curious
• Generation Flux
o http://www.fastcompany.com/generation-flux
o #genflux
27. Thanks
Rachel L. Frick
Director, Digital Library Federation
www.Diglib.org / @CLIRDLF
@rlfrick
Notes de l'éditeur
Whats going on where, Who is involved, Why should I care and how does this effect me and what I do every day
2o years ago – first ejournal check in at UNC-Ch – Print it off and bind it…..We have been talking about the future for a while now – are we there yet?
Research Data Alliance vs. Resource Description and Access
10,588,232 total volumes5,571,837 book titles275,919 serial titles3,705,881,200 pages475 terabytes125 miles8,603 tons3,268,744 volumes(~31% of total) in the public domain
Walters - The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, has donated more than 19,000 freely-licensed images of artworks toWikimedia Commons. The Walters’ collection includes ancient art, medieval art and manuscripts, decorative objects, Asian art and Old Master and 19th-century paintings. The images and their associated information will join our collection of more than 12 million freely usable media files, which serves as the repository for the 285 language editions of Wikipedia. The project began taking shape in February 2012, as part of the GLAM-Wiki initiative (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums).
Libraries have re-conceived goals, shifting from a collection-centric focus to one that is engagement-basedTrue deep engagement – What is driving this? It is the network, social structuring of how we work and collaborate, and the demand for and glut of data.
This lecture, reflecting on future roles, posits the potential dawning of a “great age of librarians,” if librarians make the conceptual shift of focusing on their own skills and activities rather than on their libraries
We must understand that if we limit our vision to the care and feeding of our buildings and our collections, if we spend too much time worrying about how to get people into the building so that we can serve them, we will fail to meet our critical responsibilities to society. The care and feeding of our buildings and collections still needs to be done, but we cannot allow it to define us. – T. Scott Plutchak wouldn’t we be better off talking about the value of the work done by those who work in libraries, regardless of degrees, job titles, or faculty status?It is about being seen as a cricital component on the knowledge creation cycle in an information based economy. This lecture, reflecting on future roles, posits the potential dawning of a “great age of librarians,” if librarians make the conceptual shift of focusing on their own skills and activities rather than on their libraries the gatekeeping impulse has a great deal to do with a desire to preserve the field …as a site of virtue.But I wonder if there is a way to “change the narrative” (hat tip to Bess Sadler for the phrase). What if the story was that the work libraries do is so important and so cool that everyone wants a piece of it? Or that libraries are such logical places for a broad range of services and resources that of course we need to hire folks with a broader range of education and skills and talents? And in terms of faculty status, I love whatDeborah Jakubs had to say on an earlier post:…librarians are learned and talented and bring skills and attitudes and services to the university that most regular faculty both admire and need. So rather than constantly trying to compare ourselves to faculty, and often coming up short, let’s celebrate the differences and complementarity.
It is time to experiment – back to the idea at that we are the beginning stages of the mash-up between the social network and digital content.But what they especially encouraged me to convey is what one person characterized as “a sense of optimism that comes from being encouraged to take risks,” and another as “excitement to share even failures as a positive outcome” (that is, as a learning experience for everybody–a scholarly and social contribution we can all make, when we are not asked to hide our messes or mistakes).
We connect people to knowledge. We bring people together with the intellectual content of the past and present so that new knowledge can be created. We provide the ways and means for people to find entertainment and solace and enlightenment and joy and delight in the intellectual, scientific and creative work of other people. This is what we have always been about.Plutchak T.S. http://www.tscott.typepad.com/tsp/2007/01/what_do_you_cal.htmMany challenges facing the libraries have a solution started, or achieved in other communities – we need to be willing to adopt technologies, and professionals that are developed outside of libraryland.
The potential dawning of a “great age of librarians,” if librarians make the conceptual shift of focusing on their own skills and activities rather than on their libraries.”T. Scott PlutchakBecause we are still figuring this all out – there is so much opportunity – But it will be here and and at its most golden – for librarians – for only a short time. It is up to us as a community to move forward. It’s the choices we make, the people we hire, how we organze collaborate and communicate, both at an insitutional level, but also on the individual level. So what would I tell a someone who is starting out in librarianship?