1. Metadata 2.0, Glocalization, and Being Where Their Eyes Are: What’s So Special About Special Collections? Karen Calhoun Vice President, WorldCat & Metadata Services Los Angeles, CA 26 June 2008 49 th Annual RBMS Preconference

2. The Dream of Local Integration http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/2232

4. Artist Beverly A. Mitchell

5. One Hundred Flowers Blooming “ At this stage, no new effort should be undertaken without a sense of how it will be merged with other existing collections and where the resources for long-term maintenance will come from.” --A Cornell University Library digital projects librarian Moving from Project to Program

6. The Portal Dream: A Unifying System Model Other Libraries Catalogs Local Library Catalog Digital Collections Licensed Databases Other (e.g.,DSpace) Many diverse, separate interfaces Portal: an Integrating System Authentication layer Unified Web Interface (“Google-like”)

7. Our Concept Map of Digital Collections Program Best Practices

9. An Early Earthquake: Where Do You Begin an Online Search for Information on a Topic? College Students’ Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources: a Report to the OCLC Membership : http://www.oclc.org/reports/perceptionscollege.htm

10. 300 of the most influential websites, positioned on the greater Tokyo-area train map. http://informationarchitects.jp/web-trend-map-2008-beta/

11. LC Action Item 6.4: “Support research and development on the changing nature of the catalog to include consideration of a framework for its integration with other discovery tools.” Calhoun, Karen. The Changing Nature of the Catalog and Its Integration with Other Discovery Tools. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 17 March 2006. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/calhoun-report-final.pdf

12. The Catalog in Context Online catalogs represent one node in the end user’s information universe

13. Outward Integration “ Integration should be outward rather than inward, with libraries seeking to use their components in new ways” --Interviewee for LC report on future of the catalog

19. What If We Do Nothing?

20. http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/news/lcwg-ontherecord-jan08-final.pdf 2 ENHANCE ACCESS TO RARE, UNIQUE, AND OTHER SPECIAL HIDDEN MATERIALS

23. Aggregations Are Good: The Center for History and New Media

24. A Slidell Volunteer’s Story

25. Promiscuous Metadata

26. Be Where Their Eyes Are Photo of John Muir, seated on rock

31. Be Ready for Partners: Preserve Your Right to Reuse & Remix http://dlib.org/dlib/november07/kaufman/11kaufman.html

32. How Can Metadata Help?

37. GLOBAL GROUP LOCAL Outward Integration, Exposure, And Linking Of Collections (e.g., Google, WorldCat, Other aggregators, national libraries, consortia) Local/Group Authentication, Discovery And Delivery Services Data Flows, Syndication, Synchronization, Linking We Can Be Connected: A New Vision for Metadata Management

39. “ Quality” in the User Workflow from Discovery to Delivery Library user studies suggest that users expect finding and getting information they want, when and where they want it, to be easy and convenient. These users’ tolerance for barriers to easy and convenient discovery and delivery is limited.

40. “ A colleague … sang the praises of the digital world to us. He can now, he told us, get direct access to information … His enthusiasm had screened out an enormous array of people, organizations, and institutions involved in this “direct” touch. The university, the library, publishers, editors, referees, authors, the computer and infrastructure designers, the cataloguers and library collection managers, right down to the students working their way through college by [working in the library] had no place in his story.” Brown, John Seely, and Paul Duguid. 2000. The social life of information . Boston: Harvard Business School Press.

42. We’re “On Notice”! Steve Colbert’s “On-Notice” Board Inspired by Ricky Erway and Jennifer Schaffner. 2008. Shifting Gears: Gearing Up to Get Into the Flow . Podcast available from: http://www.oclc.org/programsandresearch/parcasts/default.htm

43. The Prize Is Worth the Effort: Reconnecting Users and Libraries on the Web No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main. Meditation XVII , John Donne No library is an island (no matter how big) St. Gallen Library Attribution: Ben and Clare http://flickr.com/photos/ benandclare/1096666766/

44. By ideonexus http://flickr.com/photos/ideonexus/2514340529/ Comments? Observations? Questions? Thanks for the chance to speak with you today. Karen Calhoun [email_address]