Presentation to Oxford University Library Information Systems management group, August 2008

1. Digital Library Services and the Changing Environment John MacColl, European Director OCLC Programs and Research Oxford University Library 29 August 2008

4. Concentrate, and diffuse

5. Concentration A web-scale presence Mobilise data Diffusion Disclosure of links, data and services

6. Concentration: network level

7. Diffusion: workflow

8. Local

9. Global: catalogue records at the network level

10. Global  Local: libraries in the flow

11. Facebook LibraryThing Not just Google

12. WorldCat as a ‘switch’

13. 4 pillars and 3 environments User environment Library & Network Resource Management environment End User Access Management Digitised/ Digital Bought / Physical Electronic/ Licensed Special colls/ Archives Management

14. User environment Library & Network Resource Management environment Find It Management Digitised/ Digital Bought / Physical Electronic/ Licensed Special colls/ Archives Manage It Get It Metadata Content With verbs

15. User environment Library & Network Resource Management environment End User Access Management Digitised/ Digital Bought / Physical Electronic/ Licensed Special colls/ Archives Manage It Get It Metadata Content SPECIAL ILS ERM REPOSITORY Find It With tools ILL/CIRC LINK RESOLVER SPECIAL OPAC MetaSearch Website A-Z NextGen MARC DC EAD A&I XXX

16. network level – library website - workflow Difficult to ‘mobilize’ library resource into workflows A thin layer around complex legacy systems Concentration Diffusion Stuck in the middle … Low gravitational pull? Little social dynamic Limited usage data

23. Mass digitisation of special collections

28. Stop cherry-picking

31. How do we achieve web-scale?

32. Not the way we’ve been doing it!

33. Web Scale

34. Access vs preservation — access wins!

39. Change in Photoduplication Policy As of March 17, 2008, the Ransom Center's policy regarding research copies of items from its collections will change. We will no longer furnish photocopies. For all requests received on or after March 17, our default procedure will be to make digital scans of the originals and furnish PDF files (72 dpi) either by email or on CD-ROM. For patrons who are unable to make use of PDFs, printouts will be available in lieu of digital files. For publication purposes, high-resolution images will still be furnished on the same terms as before. Harry Ransom Center, UT Austin Scan on demand

43. January 16 th 2008: LC photographs on Flickr

44. 24 hours later Exposure

45. Impact: exposure Flickr: Top 50 LC: Top 6000

46. Contributions How to lose control

47. Go with it

48. Feeding back into our work 89 records updated

60. Global  Local switching

63. Then: Users built workflow around libraries Now: Library must build services around user workflow Discovery happens elsewhere Disclosure

65. Benefit of concentration: ranking based on number of holding libraries

66. Benefit of concentration: More data to mine

68. Benefit of concentration: ability to make user- contributed data better

70. Put things under people’s noses Benefit of diffusion: exposed in spaces where potential users are found

72. The End John MacColl [email_address] .org RLG Programs OCLC Programs & Research