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CHANGING BOUNDARIES

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PRESENTATION: Purpose and Focus

• Identify/Explore Issues (5 – 10 Year Timeframe) • Organizing Influence (Next 2 Days)

• Focus on Impact of New Technologies• Stimulate Discussion• Reorganize our Collective Thinking• Sustained and Focused Thinking and

Experimentation

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PRESENTATION: Content

• Personal and Environmental Perspectives

• Assumptions/Beliefs

• Changing Boundaries

• Your Thinking

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PERSPECTIVE: Personal

• 1980’s: IAIMS, WML, OMIM, GDB

• 1990’s - UCSF, Red Sage, California Digital Library

• 2000’s - Integration of Information Place and

Information Space

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Continuity Innovation

PERSPECTIVE: Personal

Transformation

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PERSPECTIVE: ENVIRONMENT

• CONTINUING ‘PRESSURES’Increasing Costs/Business

ModelInformation ExplosionVariety and Scope of User

Needs and Demands

• REVOLUTION vs EVOLUTIONTeaching and LearningResearch and ScholarshipPublishing

• CONVERGENCE and OPPORTUN ITYCritical Mass of Content,

Users, andEnabling Technologies

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Assumption: Our Business

Advance Scholarship, SupportExcellence in Teaching, Foster

Learning, andPromote Service to the public

through the comprehensive management of

scholarly content

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Collection, Storage, Preservation, Access

InformationTransfer

Consultation,Education, Service

KnowledgeManagement

Assumption: Content Mgmt Functions

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Knowledge Management

Social and Technological System:Generation of new Knowledge

through its dissemination and use

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“It is clear that the current unit of analysis - the (individual) library - cannot survive in theexisting environment. Leveraging is clearly calledfor...at the largest system-level possible. Whileassociations of campuses, consortia, and othergroupings will alleviate the problem, the bestsolution is found when no system or nationalboundaries are limiting factors.”

Assumption: Our Autonomy

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All successful content initiatives involve

several levels of collaboration,

from local to global

Assumption: Our Autonomy

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OWNERSHIP (Building and Collection Model)

ACCESS (Service Model)

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Assumption: Model Transition

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The Art and Practice of Scholarship The Challenge to Experiment

“Perhaps the only prediction that can be made with confidence is that [scientific] publishing is in the early part of a turbulent era unlike anything it has experienced since the invention of movable type. The turbulence is not likely to abate soon, for technological innovation will suggest alternative ways of doing things. Which innovations will be adopted or adapted probably depends on how well they fit established academic ways, and on such factors as cost, ease of use, retrievability of information, and durability of storage...

On such matters, there is simply not yet enough experience.”

Assumption: Scientific Communication

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Information Improvisation

• Seamless movement between recreation and work

• Prompt Gratification

• Alternation between linear and radial pathways

• Insufficient attention to structural differences

Assumption: Changing User Behavior

SUSTAINED STUDY NEEDED

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Academic Library is a CatalystAGENT OF CHANGE

Ambiguity characterizesenvironment for setting directions

and determining strategies

Assumption: Stability and Change

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Assumption: Changing Boundaries

Continuous Loss, Blurring, andMovement of Boundaries Promotes

Fluidity and Makes it DifficultTo Assess and Understand the Situation

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Changing Boundaries

Collection Management Content Management

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Changing Boundaries

Static Dynamic

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Changing Boundaries

Content Access

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Changing Boundaries

Data Metadata

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Changing Boundaries

Content Technology

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Changing Boundaries

Content Service

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Changing Boundaries

Reference Content Management

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Changing Boundaries

Service Tool

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Changing Boundaries

Sharing Collections Shared Collections

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Changing Boundaries

Special Collections Born Digital Content

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Changing Boundaries

Preservation Persistent Access

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Changing Boundaries

Academic Content Institutional Content

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Changing Boundaries

Local Clientele Distributed Clientele

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Changing Boundaries

Content Creators Content Providers

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Changing Boundaries

Content Users Content Providers

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Role of the Scholar Role of the Librarian

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Changing Boundaries

Scholarship Librarianship

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Changing Boundaries

Content Creators Content Users

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Traditional Media New Media

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Ownership Service

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Challenges

Political

Organizational

Business

Information Policies

Technological

Cultural

Changing Boundaries