Dealing with the Stuff:the Hybrid Library View

Stephen PinfieldUniversity of Birmingham

King Saul

“Therefore they enquired of the Lord further, if the man should yet come thither. And the Lord answered, Behold, he hath hid himself among the stuff.”(1 Samuel 10:22 AV)

Dealing with the Stuff:the User’s View

Defining the hybrid library

The Library

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The Hybrid Library should be...

“...designed to bring a range of technologies from different sources together in the context of a working library, and also to begin to explore integrated systems and services in both the electronic and print environments.”Chris Rusbridge D-Lib July/August 1998

Hybrid Library

The hybrid library as process……integration of the stuff……seamlessness...

The Stuff: a random list

Type: Abstracts and

Indexes Catalogues Union catalogues Reference sources Serials Monographs etc., etc.

Formats: Databases CD-ROMs Web sites Paper Microform Cassette etc., etc.

Hybrid Library development

Not just:Integration of electronic sourcesSoftware product

“Show us yer hybrid library!”

Hybrid library projects: building models, creating exemplars of and developing specific products for the hybrid library

Hybrids:

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/projects/

HyLiFe

Hybrid Library of the FutureLead sites: CERLIM at Manchester MU &

University of Northumbria at NewcastlePlus other consortium partnersUser and evaluation focus - development

of 6 hybrid library interfaces for different user groups in different institutions

http://www.unn.ac.uk/~xcu2/hylife

MAnaging the hybrid LIbrary for the Benefit of Users

Lead site: King’s College London, Oxford and Southampton Universities

Plus other consortium members / partnersHumanities focus - developing hybrid library

prototypes for the humanities. Organisation and Management focus - development of models

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/malibu

MALIBU

HeadLine

Hybrid Electronic Access and Delivery in the Library Networked Environment

Lead site: London School of EconomicsPlus other consortium partnersEconomics and business focus - creating

hybrid library environment for wide range of different resources

http://www.headline.ac.uk

BUILDER

Birmingham University Integrated Library Development and Electronic Resource

Lead site: University of BirminghamPlus a number of partners Institutional focus - developing a model of

the hybrid library within an institutionhttp://builder.bham.ac.uk

Agora

Lead site: University of East AngliaPlus other partners Infrastructural focus - development of a

Hybrid Library Management System - implementation of the MODELS Information Architecture

http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/agora

Hybrid Library Themes

Interconnectivity and interoperability Authentication and authorisationPersonalisation of the Information

LandscapeCultural and organisational issuesLinks with other eLib Phase 3

strands: Z39.50, digital preservation

Hybrid Library Themes

Interconnectivity and interoperability

BROKER / GLUE

USER INTERFACE - WEB

stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff

API Application Programming Interface

“…a set of functions and procedures, and enables a program to gain access to facilities within an application… [This] enables users to customize the application for their own purposes and to integrate the application into a customized development environment.”Valerie Illingworth (ed.) Dictionary of Computing 4th ed. Oxford: OUP, 1996.

Hybrid Library Themes

Interconnectivity and interoperability Authentication and authorisation

Authentication

Authentication they are who they say there are

Authorisation they can use x but not y

Local systemsOther systems

suppliersnationalinternational

Hybrid Library Themes

Interconnectivity and interoperability Authentication and authorisationPersonalisation of the Information

Landscape

Personalisation

Metadata managementbroad view of metadata - data about data -

records created / managed by library describing the stuff

Integration of metadatametadata indexes, OPAC, interoperability

with other metadata databasesMatching metadata with user data

a view of the stuff which is more relevant

Hybrid Library Themes

Interconnectivity and interoperability Authentication and authorisationPersonalisation of the Information

LandscapeCultural and organisational issues

Partnerships

Within the academic institutionLibrary and computing serviceLibrary, computing service and registry…and academic departments

Outside the institutionOther HE institutions and librariesOther non-HE librariesData providers, system suppliers and

publishers

And King Saul...?

Full of good intentions…but...Could not work out what was

expected of himBecame mentally unstableDied trying to fight-off an invasion by

the Philistines

http://builder.bham.ac.uk