2013North Carolina Serials ConferenceRachel L. Frick

Director, Digital Library FederationCouncil on Library and information Resources

WhatWho

Where

Why

How

• My Perspectiveo Serialist,Vendor, NC-AHEC circuit librarian,

TechServices, Digitization, Federal grants officer,o Community Builder

• Current organizationo CLIR – Council on Library and Information Resources

• The DLF – Digital Library Federationo @CLIRDLF www.diglib.org

Preamble

There is a lot going on…

• Shared Print Archives• Open Access • DPLA• DPN• APTrust• DDA, PDA, • RDA & RDA• BibFRAME• Linked Data

Its an exciting time to be a Librarian. Really.

“It’s the end of the world as we know it (And I feel fine).”~R.E.M.

…and it’s just Beginning

..

“I believe that we are at the threshold. But just at the very threshold—the very beginning. The incunabula period of the digital age.”

T. Scott PlutchakBreaking the Barriers of Time and Space

J Med Libr Assoc. 2012 January; 100(1): 10–19.doi:  10.3163/1536-5050.100.1.004

The Network…

…changes Everything

• Multiple Communities • Interdisciplinarity

• Leverage Local Expertise

• Amplifies Local Excellence

• Networked, Lee Raine & Barry Wellman

• Almost EVERY presentation by Lorcan Dempsey since 2005,(a good one is from a LIBER symposium in 2008 - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/presentations/dempsey/lir.ppt

Collaboration /Scale

Continuum of Collaboration, Gunter Waiblehttp://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2010/2010-09.pdf

Macro-Solutions• Above Campus Services

John Wilkin, Paul Courant, Educause Review, August 2010

• Service as Infrastructure

• DataOne, DPN, HathiTrust, shared print archives

• CLIR annual Report 2009-2010 http://www.clir.org/pubs/annual/previous-annual-reports/annual_archive.html/10annrep.pdf

Cloud Library• Distributed Shared Print Network

o Made possible by HathiTrusto OCLC Cloud Library Report, C. Malpaso Report – Print Management at Mega-Scale

http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2012/2012-05r.html

• ReCAP - http://recap.princeton.edu/ • WEST - http://www.cdlib.org/services/west/about/ • ASERL / University of Florida: US Gov Docs

o http://www.aserl.org/programs/gov-doc/ • Maine Shared Print - http://www.maineinfonet.net/mscs/ • Organizational Node: Center for Research Libraries

o Print Archive Community Forumhttp://www.crl.edu/archiving-preservation/print-archives/forum

DPLA- Hubs Pilot

Data• Data Driven Decision Making

• Research Data – big and small

• Data Curation

• Library Collections as Data

• Linked (Open)Data

Collections as Data

http://chrniclingamerica.loc.gov/

Collection Data Mashup

http://www.stanford.edu/group/ruralwest/cgi-bin/drupal/visualizations/us_newspapers

Open“A piece of data or content is open ifAnyone is free to use, reuse and redistribute data and/or content – subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and/ or share-alike”. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cornelluniversitylibrary/3855920935/

Open for Business• Walters museum

o Donated 19,000 frelly licensed images to Wikimedia

• Rijks museum /Studio

Not Business as Usual• Its All Local

o “Local Collections are the Dark matter of a Linked Data world” ~ Susan Hildreth, Director IMLS, DPLAWest 2012

• Bringing your Community to the worldTurning Collection Development Inside Out,

Dorthea Salo. http://vimeo.com/20019850

• Broaden you scope

• Allow for Serendipty

It’s our mission

• The Mission of Librarians is to Improve Society through Facilitating Knowledge Creation in their Communities

R. David LankesAtlas of New Librariship

http://www.newlibrarianship.org/wordpress/

Service Turn“Defining distinctive services with the clarity with which we have defined distinctive collections allows us to acknowledge that the 21st century will be marked by different, but equally valid, definitions of excellence in academic libraries, and that the manner in which individual libraries demonstrate excellence will be distinctive to the service needs, and to the opportunities to address those needs, found on each campus.”

Scott Walter. “Distinctive Signifiers of Excellence”: Library Services and the Future of the Academic Library. Coll. & res. libr. January

2011 72:6-

Library or Librarianship?

• Its not about the books

• We need to choose: the building or the communities ?

• A degree does not define us

Librarians needed• David Weinberger – Too Big to Know

http://www.toobigtoknow.com/

• Bethany Nowviskie – Too Small to Failhttp://nowviskie.org/2012/too-small-to-fail/

• Alistair Croll – A Billion Bad Librarianshttp://erl2013.sched.org/event/393e3c246af45e565c7314e6f097467a#.UUE9A1t35XA

Be part* of the conversation

http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcwathieu/2979581445/

• Conversations build new Knowledgeo Engage, Listen, resist the urge to broadcast

• Talk to someone new

• Contribute constructively

• Snark less, listen more

Librarians without Borders

• Roam where you want to

• Get out of the Box

• Don’t be pigeonholed

• Be a traveller, stay curious

• Generation Flux o http://www.fastcompany.com/generation-fluxo #genflux

It’s up to you

Who do you follow?

How do you lead?http://www.flickr.com/photos/viggum/3214219190/

Makers

Thanks

Rachel L. FrickDirector, Digital Library Federationwww.Diglib.org / @CLIRDLF

@rlfrick