ICT role in 21st century education and it's challenges.
The Distributed National Electronic Resource and the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib)
1. The Distributed National
Electronic Resource and the
Electronic Libraries
Programme (eLib)
UNC Seminar, Oxford, May 1998
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2. DNER/eLib overview: contents
Background
Services, collections, the DNER
eLib outline: Phases 1/2 & 3
Related activities
MODELS
Ramblings!
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3. JISC Strategy
Summary: Excellent access to relevant content
eLib is core development
• stimulus to new information service developments
CEI provides core content
• enriched distributed national electronic resource for
HE
Related skills development
Cultural change... slow process
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4. eLib: background
“Follett Report” of Libraries Review committee,
1993
• Buildings program (£30m?)
• Special collections & archives (£50M?)
• CURL OPAC (£0.5M)
• Pilot Site Licence Initiative (£4M?)
• Arts & Humanities Data Service (£1.5M)
• eLib Programme (£15M)
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5. Value
Greatly improved access
Increased resource sharing
Digital content
Downward pressure on publishing prices
Stimulating publishing change
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6. CEI Services
Data Centres (BIDS, Data Archive, EDINA,
MIDAS) & Information service (NISS)
UKOLN, BUBL
Mirrors (HENSAs?, Visible Human)
Subject-based Gateways?
Digitisation (HEDS)
Coordinated by the Monitoring & Advisory Unit
(MAU)
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7. CEI Collections
Collections policy
Data sets
• Bibliographic, numeric/statistical, full text, images, GIS
OPACs
• COPAC, clumps?
Electronic journals/full text: PSLI/NESLI, ILEJ etc?
Image sets
• HELIX, MIDRIB, Fast track, JIDI
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8. The Distributed National
Electronic Resource
Fuzzy concept ... but useful
Unification? + Specialised?
• geographic distribution: single failure, network load
• access points
• metadata... how do I know what‟s there?
• authentication... who am I? ... once!
• preservation implications
Tailoring... information landscapes
• economy of attention
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9. The eLib Programme
A Programme of
“Collaborative partnerships between libraries,
academic staff, publishers and others, to promote
large scale pilot and demonstrator projects
focusing on the components of a future electronic
library service, and to provide stimulus to its
creation.”
» The Libraries Review
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10. eLib: programme outline
Funded by UK Funding Councils through the JISC
• Projects short term, 1-3 years
• Practical focus: achievable & off the shelf rather than blue
sky technology. What will help libraries, students and
academics?
• Phases 1 & 2: ~60 projects; £15 million
• Phase 3: ~20 projects; £5 million
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11. eLib: phases 1 & 2
Electronic publishing
Access to resources
Document delivery
Web p ubl i shi ng
ANR
Training & studies Do c Del
Digitisation (text and Trai ni ng an d
stu di es
images) Di gi tisatio n
Customised publishing Cu stomi se d
pu bl ishi ng
(e-reserve)
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14. eLib: comparisons with DLi
eLib DLi
60 projects, 3 years, 6 projects, 4 years, $24M
£15M ASQ-not!
Incremental change Computer science
Library & publisher orientation
orientation Theoretical, research,
Low technology? high technology
Local service, user and Low impact on academic
copyright issues processes
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15. Evaluation comments
“The electronic library is attractive ... but is only likely to be
realised as an institutionally pervasive concept. That is, library
strategies cannot be divorced from the internal ... research,
teaching and learning strategies of individual HEIs.”
» Policy Mapping Study
“We can also observe ... actual mobilisation ... effects of the
programme - on researchers, publishers ... and individual
disciplines and HEIs.”
» Formative evaluation report
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16. eLib: phase 3
Exemplars of “hybrid
libraries”
Large scale resource
discovery (“clumps”)
Hybrid L ib rari es
Cl umps
• Z39.50-based virtual Di gi ta l
union catalogues Preservati on
Proj ect Exten si on s
Digital preservation
Project extensions
towards services
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17. eLib Phase 3 : Clumps
Stress test for Z39.50?
• scaling issues
• holdings, serials, IPR
3 regional virtual union catalogues (2 years)
• linked to regional computer networks (MANs) recently
created as part of national SuperJANET network
Music virtual union catalogue project (3 years)
• libraries, commercial agencies, publishers
• multi-media: scores, performances, etc
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18. Higher Education Resources ON
demand (HERON)
Teaching & learning focus (Dearing etc)
Consolidate eLib OD/ER results
3 UK HE partners + Blackwell‟s
• Stirling, Napier, South Bank
Create “critical mass” resource bank of copyright
cleared, digitised electronic materials for UK HE
Return £ to rights owners (including HE!)
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19. Phase 3++
Hybrid library and clumps projects
• about access to information in all forms, whenever,
wherever
Integrate with...
• document delivery
• DNER, NNDP (archives), museums
• preservation/conservation for local material
Ecosystem not jigsaw
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20. eLib Phase 3: Hybrid Library
Assumes print and electronic media will coexist
Seeks to integrate delivery of both from local and
remote sources via electronic access
5 3-year projects varying in technical ambition
from almost none to sophisticated software
tracking individuals
Varied scope: individual institution -> subject ->
customer groups
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21. Agora
UEA, UKOLN, CERLIM, FDI etc
Open, standards-based platform for distributed,
mixed media information management
• link to MODELS Information Architecture; information
landscapes
• sequence of prototypes tested in partner institutions
• innovative strategy for disseminating results &
sharing experiences
• exploratory enabling infrastructure for the DNER
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22. BUILDER
Institutional project (Birmingham) but with partners
Both teaching and research
• seamlessly integrate access to a wide range of printed
and electronic information sources,
• local and remote users and information,
• integrating library with other academic activities,
• through user-oriented information landscapes.
6 modules & 6 subject areas
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23. Headline
LSE, LBS, Hertfordshire
Integration of print and electronic
• beyond resource discovery to resource access
Orientation to knowledge & preferences of user
• customisation of services
• user-oriented design
Copyright issues addressed
Tools and technology to be made widely available
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24. HYLIFE
• Research possible new boundaries of libraries
• More user need driven than technological; focus:
Social, organisational, educational, operational
• Concerned with library management/strategy issues
• 6 customer groups: student, research centre, health
practitioners, business, community college students,
distance students - “the electronic subject librarian”?
• Overarching generic strand: identifies and feeds best
practise into implementations, builds results of testing
into final toolkit for interface design
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25. MALIBU
3 partners (KCL, So‟ton, Oxford)
• Humanities-based
• Oriented towards organisation & management issues
• Management of change issues
• Staff training and development; User documentation
and training
• Integrated hybrid resource catalogue, resource
discovery tools and integrated delivery strategies
• Not new tools: integrate existing & developing tools
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28. Service Example (Z39.50 Discovery Only)
End External Admin
User Z39.50 User
Client
Z39.50
Searches
HTTP SQL
Library Broker
Distributed Z39.50 Searches
Target 1 Target 2 Target 3 Target 4 Target 5 ...
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MODELS 28
29. Extensibility - e.g. Clump Network
Network
Gateway 2
User Community
Gateway 1 Clump
User Community Gateway 2
Clump
Gateway 1
Clump
Gateway 3
Gateway 3
User Community
Target A
Target G
Target F
Target B
Target C Target D Target E
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MODELS 29
30. Related activities
Copyright-related: JISC/PA
JTAP technology programme
• includes authentication & authorisation
?Other HEFC activities?
• TLTP, TLTSN, CTI, Anderson, LTDI, Talisman?
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31. Dissemination
Vital to make programmes worth while
Needs specific planning; first to be dropped!
Telling
• scholarly & popular articles, conferences, web, email,
Helping
• assisted & supported take-up & implementation
• workshops, roadshows, summer schools
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32. In a digital world, are libraries...
irrelevant?
• no, but... “Don‟t do libraries!”
necessary? vital?
• yes: print legacy, electronic info support, service & IPR
sufficient?
• no: must recognise „external‟ non-library resources
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33. In a digital world, are libraries...
warm, social, supportive study & research
environments, giving access to the world‟s
knowledge?
• librarians self image?
cold, authoritative, excessively complex,
ritualised, exclusive, devoted to the past?
• need for self-challenge?
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34. Comments from ADL
Advances in Digital Libraries conference
attendees remarks:
• “Libraries will increasingly hold data as well as
documents; substantial new challenges” (NLM)
• “This is now about leadership... the technology exists,
drive this thing through” (Palumbo)
• “Solutions will unfold organically over many years”
(Lucier)
• “We‟re beginning to move away from digital libraries
to knowledge management” (Freeston)
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35. “Gateways to Knowledge” ed Dowler 1997
“...librarians have too often bolted new technology,
programs and services onto existing library functions”
“The gateway, like Janus, looks to the documentary
sources of the past, even as it looks in the direction of
electronic sources ... in the future” Dowler
“The library I never go to is already one of the most
important places in my life” Appiah
“The gateway library is ... a process that delivers
services to the user” Rockwell
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36. “Gateways to Knowledge” ed Dowler 1997 (cont)
“The gateway library is not a place ... [it] is as distributed
and decentralized as campus computing has become” ibid
“Investments in people will be critical to success” ibid
“Libraries can still make themselves irrelevant to the new
information age, by repelling all invaders from IT, by
allowing job protection strategies to dominate decision
making, or by failing to provide librarians with opportunities
for appropriate training and re-training” ibid
“Every new database ... seems to generate more demand
for instructional support” Dowler
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37. Service in Digital Libraries?
“[There is] an emphasis on technology & information
resources, and a very noticeable lack of discussion of
the service aspects of the digital library” Sloan, UIUC
“... high tech and high touch” Dwyer, Cal State Chico
“Social interaction helpful in
• selecting information
• seeking informal information
• highly specific, contextual information
• socialising function” Ackerman via Sloan
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38. eLib: more information
eLib phase 3 information pack... June?
Web pages maintained by UKOLN
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/elib/
Mailbase lists including
lis-elib@mailbase.ac.uk
lis-elib-tech@mailbase.ac.uk
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