Presentation at library conference hosted by National Library of Norway at Mo i Rana, November 2011.

1. Cooperation in the Digital Age:
Building the Library Platform
Constance Malpas
OCLC Research
Biblioteklederkonferansen 2011
Mo i Rana, Norway
1-2 November 2011

2. Networked Reconfigured Cooperative
Environment Libraries Infrastructure
<TECH>
Biblio
<TECH>

3. Mega-Regions of Europe
?
http://www.creativeclass.com/whos_your_city/maps/#Mega-Regions_of_Europe

4. Os-Göte-hagen?
Constructing a Nordic mega-region
infrastructure
for the emerging creative class
* highly educated
* entrepreneurial
* supported by strong ICT
and
* logistics systems
(and libraries?)
http://www.nortrade.com/index?cmd=show_article&id=512

5. Data defines the networked information environment

6. The consumer platform . . . an addressable, self-improving knowledge-base
251 Norwegian authors
[ +/-4 % ]

7. The consumer platform . . . maximizes reference-ability
exposes ‘hooks’ for social interaction
?

8. The consumer platform . . . excels at aggregating and ‘sorting out’ demand
My preferences
My social network

9. Read. Review. Remember. + Remix
+ Bookmarklet
Social reading
‘in the flow’
Ranas fjell og gruver

10. Social reading …
in a crowded space?
GoodReads
BookSpace
Kindle
Findings
#FridayReads
etc.

11. The library platform . . . excels at ‘sorting out’ supply
(29)

12. The library platform . . . excels at aggregating, enriching, structuring data
~150 years of publication history

13. The library platform . . . embodies a particular domain model
Names matter personal, corporate, geographic
uniform titles
Relationships matter works, expressions,
manifestations; roles
Identifiers matter ISBN, LCCN, OCLC etc.
http://experimental.worldcat.org/IDNetwork/

14. Collections: Reconfigured
Outside in:
Books, journals, DVDs, … (Bought and licensed)
Aim: to discover …
Inside out:
institutional assets: special collections, research and learning
materials, institutional records, …
Aim: to have discovered …
(With thanks to Lorcan Dempsey)

15. Decreasing
investment in local
print collection,
increasing reliance
on licensed
electronic
Growing emphasis on
Customer Relationship Management
Source: Statistikk for arkiv, bibliotek og museum, 2009

16. Shift in demand – greater
reliance on digital formats
Demand for print has
leveled off while inventory
continues to grow
Source: Statistikk for arkiv, bibliotek og museum, 2009

17. Infrastructure (space & tools) for increased productivity
Collections: inside-out
Library value less about ‘commodity’ collections
more about support for the research process: CRISTIN
DUO/NORA

18. A look in the rear-view mirror . . . Ca. 2006
Collections Emphasis:
Outside-In

19. What Changed? Priorities.
http://www.forskningsradet.no/en/Newsarticle/High_scores_for_scientific_output_and_intern
ational_citation/1224066961722

20. Norske doktorgrader etter fagområde 1980–2010
Humaniora Samfunnsvitenskap
Matematikk og naturvitenskap Teknologi
Medisin Landbruksvitenskap og veterinærmedisin
1,400
Increasing national research capacity
1,200
1,000
800
600 Increased reliance on
performance and
400 publication indicators
200
0
1980 1985 1990 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Derived from: Nedlastbare figurer og tabeller til Indikatorrapporten 2011 (Tabell A.1.7)

21. Growing the ‘Creative Class’: Norway’s next great natural resource?
Norway

22. The next generation of Norwegian researchers . . .
will require a new kind of HE environment
Digital Residents
Source: NSD Årsmelding, 2009

23. #dan
Digital library agenda is key to
‘virtualization’ of research enterprise:
it maximizes impact in the network

24. National information infrastructure
in a global library platform
= network effects
1.5M
personal names + 15M personal names in VIAF
~250 in
Norwegian
authors in BIBSYS
Wikipedia linked data set 450K* titles in NorBok
~250K digitized by NB.no
+ 16K Norwegian titles in HathiTrust
48K in Bokhylla
*http://www.nb.no/bokhylla/om/om-bokhylla

25. New Cooperative Infrastructure
Shared stewardship TRLN
of digitized corpus 4 ~50% contribute content
C
C
C
CIC
13 C C
C C Shared management
C
of legacy print
UC
10 + 1
C
C
N =58
October 2008 October 2010
October 2009 October 2011
N =34

26. “I’ve been in
this business
for
decades, but
this is one of
the craziest
things I’ve ever
seen…”
http://blog.authorsguild.org/20
11/10/06/authors-groups-from-
u-k-canada-norway-and-
sweden-join-authors-guild-
australian-society-of-authors-
and-quebec-writers-union-in-
suit-against-hathitrust/
http://www.nffo.no/storypg.aspx?zone=40&id=506

27. Growth of HathiTrust Digital Library
6,000,000
(Jun 2009 – Oct 2011) 18,000
NB. <50K Norwegian language speakers in US 15,605 16,000
5,000,000
5M 14,000
4,000,000
13,761 12,000
Norwegian Content
Titles / Editions
10,000
3,000,000
Library cooperation 8,000
2,000,000
made this possible 6,000
Networked information environment
made it imperative 4,000
1,000,000
2,000
0 0
Mar-10
Mar-11
Sep-09
Oct-09
Sep-10
Oct-10
Sep-11
Oct-11
Aug-09
Aug-10
Aug-11
Jun-09
Jul-09
Nov-09
Jan-10
Feb-10
Apr-10
May-10
Jun-10
Jul-10
Nov-10
Jan-11
Feb-11
Apr-11
May-11
Jun-11
Jul-11
Dec-09
Dec-10
Titles in HathiTrust Titles published in Norway Titles in Norwegian

28. 100
90
Alberta
% of Library Materials Spending on Electronic Resources
Majority of research libraries shifting toward
80
70
e-centric acquisitions, service model
60 73% of university ARLs
50
Michigan
40
Princeton
30
Harvard
Yale
20
Shrinking continues to shrink mission and resources
This pool pool of Chicago
U Illinois, libraries with
10 to sustain print preservation as ‘core’ operation – 25?
0
$- $5,000,000 $10,000,000 $15,000,000 $20,000,000 $25,000,000 $30,000,000 $35,000,000 $40,000,000 $45,000,000
Library Materials Expenditures (2008-2009): derived from ARL statistics

29. Source: Ithaka S+R Faculty Survey, 2009
If robust digital preservation and access system were available: “74% of
respondents said that the withdrawal of print books would be an important
strategy for their libraries in the future …A large majority of libraries (84%)
said that they would be more likely to withdraw their [digitized and digitally
preserved] print book collections if they could access print copies of books
through a trusted sharing network.“ Source: Ithaka S+R Library Survey 2010

30. 80%
Duplication of ARL University Library Holdings
in HathiTrust Digital Library
70%
Jun-09 Jun-10 Jun-11
60%
50%
[The network reconfigures the library]
% of Titles Duplicated
Median duplication in June 2011: 36%
40%
30%
Median duplication in June 2010: 31%
20%
10%
Median duplication in June 2009: 19%
0%
0 20 40 60 80 100 120
Rank in ARL Investment Index (2007-2008)

31. A closing reflection.
If libraries are to
see themselves
‘on the map’
in the global network,
in tomorrow’s knowledge base,
We must build
a cooperative platform
together.

32. Takk for oppmerksomheten.
. . . Spørsmål?
@ConstanceM
malpasc@oclc.org