21st Century Academic Library
in South Africa

Access for all @ your library

Prof Derek W. KeatsDeputy Vice Chancellor
(Knowledge & Information Management)
The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
http://kim.wits.ac.zaderek.keats@wits.ac.za

16-21 March 2009 South African Library Week

I was born on an island in the
North Atlantic Ocean

I grew up in Gambo, a small town
300 km from the Newfoundland
capital, St. John's

And went to school at Smallwood
Academy in Dark Cove

One month after my 17th birthday
I had to leave Gambo and travel
down the Trans Canada Highway... to St. John's ...

... to study Marine Biology at
Memorial University of
Newfoundland

The library aggregated
content resources intoa physical location

The library aggregated
content resources intoa physical locationAggregation

Education as an industrial process- Graham Attwell

Classrooms aggregate
demand to scarce supply

Traditional libraries aggregate
scarce content resources...and do things that enable people
to locate and use them

Opening access in the 21st Century

What is scarce
in the 21st Century?

Copyright with all rights
reserved creates scarcity
and limits access

Not all content needs all
rights reserved or to be scarce to be valuable.

Creative Commons
licenses

Creative Commons licenses

Traditional
proprietary
publishingOpen
access / Free
Licensing

Libraries and access for all

Facilitate locating open access journalsSpecial focus on those that permit reuse

Help users find content that they can reuse for their own purposes (Free and Open Educational Resources)The discipline of librarianship

Explain an promote the use of Free licenses for academic content

Drive institutional policies on reuse

Maintain and promote Institutional repositoriesMarket the rights and options for academics to use them

Encourage licenses that promote reuse

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