1. Trends and impact of
information technology in
academic libraries
Jeffrey Demaine, MLIS
metajeffrey@yahoo.ca

2. Outline

Brief history of library tech

An Academic Library for the 21st century
– Jerry Campbell & David Lewis
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Library community on the Cloud

Digital repositories and metadata
– Preservation & e-Scholarship
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A 21st
century university library

3. Brief history of library tech

1980-1994 – Computerization
– Automation of backend functions
– OPACs, CD-ROM indexes
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1995-2005 – Internet blossoms
– Library services move online
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2006-present – Digital scholarship
– Disruptive change

4. Jerry D. Campbell
CIO and Dean of University Libraries, UCLA
Changing a Cultural Icon: The
Academic Library as a Virtual
Destination (2006)
"Academic libraries have relinquished much of their
fundamental and sustaining role. For most [academics],
the library - in its most basic function as a source of
information - has become overwhelmingly a virtual
destination."

5. Jerry D. Campbell
CIO and Dean of University Libraries, UCLA
Changing a Cultural Icon: The
Academic Library as a Virtual
Destination (2006)
Traditional Library Roles Roles for 21st Century
Learning spaces Learning spaces
Cataloguing Creating metadata
Reference services Does not scale to Web environment
Bibliographic instruction Call tech support
Collection development Choosing resources and managing licenses
Collecting & archiving Collecting and digitizing archival materials
Preserving knowledge Maintaining digital repositories

6. David W. Lewis
Dean of Indiana University-Purdue
University Library
 Disruptive Innovation is needed
– Move from print to electronic collections
– Learn to preserve data for centuries
– Assist faculty in curating special collections
 Catalogs are for machines, not people
 Repositories are disruptive
A Strategy for Academic
Libraries in the First Quarter
of the 21st Century. (2007)

7. David W. Lewis
Dean of IUPUI University Library
 Move from print to electronic collections?!
A Strategy for Academic
Libraries in the First Quarter
of the 21st Century. (2007)

8. Move from print to electronic collections?!
"In response to growing demand for ebook
content, Springer has begun offering... complete
collections of its ebook titles. Pricing is based on
the size of the institution, and the ebooks are
sold DRM-free, under a perpetual-license model
that allows unlimited simultaneous use"
- June 2013
http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2013/06/ebooks/springer-responds-to-ebook-growth-with-program-for-colleges-and-small-universities/

9. David W. Lewis
Dean of IUPUI University Library
 Disruptive Innovation is needed
– Move from print to electronic collections
– Learn to preserve data for centuries
– Assist faculty in curating special collections
 Catalogs are for machines, not people
 Repositories are disruptive
A Strategy for Academic
Libraries in the First Quarter
of the 21st Century. (2007)

10. IT makes connections easy

Librarians have always been cooperative and
collaborative
– Union catalogues & ILL
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IT enables libraries to be creative; building
communities around new services.

New...
– Tools: D-Space (MIT)
– Standards: DataCite
– Possibilities: RDA

11. Cloud services: OCLC's WorldShare
Not just an ILS, a new
technology platform.
“Web scale” means even small
users enjoy full functionality.
It's all about the data: libraries
can create & share apps.

12. Digital Repositories & Metadata

Preservation should not be an afterthought.
– Outreach to faculty to ensure appropriate
metadata is part of their data-preservation
strategy (they do have a plan, right?)
– Purdue librarians evaluated on this.
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Repositories needn't be passive.
– E-Science: data repository made active by apps
for experiments and analysis.
– Carol Goble @ U Manchester: myExperiment

13. 
Digitised collections
– Museums, libraries, archives and galleries in EU

Linked Open Data
– Resource Description Framework metadata

API
– build applications, websites and mash-ups that
include a customised view of Europeana content.

e-Humanities

14. So...
Information
Technology
Academic
Libraries
Where do WorldShare and
Europeana fit on this continuum?

15. Taylor Family Digital Library
University of Calgary
"Today, regardless of how information is accessed, knowledge
creation is largely digital. The TFDL fully embraces this reality. It is
designed for learning in the 21st
century with cutting-edge technology
that supports collaborative, experiential research and study."

16. Conclusion

Online scholarship now has critical mass
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Librarians should seek disruptive innovations
– Leverage skills: Metadata, Preservation, Linking
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Academic Libraries' goals:
– Highlight faculty's special collections
– Repurpose library space to foster eScholarship
– Partner with others to build community