Loosely Joined. Library and Publisher networks for the digital era.
Paul CoyneTechnical Systems Director
Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation
MENA-IUG 2013Doha, Qatar
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Oh, and this, which is the next half hour summed up:
In the digital, mobile and networked age we serve our respective communities better when we decide to build Open, Networked Services together.
The size of the library collection will double
every 16 years.
In reality it’s doubled about every 20...
ACLS, 1967, ix
Cutting edge technology or blunt instrument?
“Vague but exciting”
1993 ARL calls on libraries to cancel subscriptions to Springer journals
Stam, 1992
1977 CAUL calls on libraries to cancel subscriptions Elsevier journals
2012 Cost of Knowledge calls on libraries to cancel subscriptions Elsevier journals
Librarians are a group of talented professionals fiercely dedicated to the notion that the effective exchange of
information among people is absolutely essential to the welfare and well-being of
modern civil society. They believe that market forces create
barriers to achieving that end.
Publishers are a group of talented professionals fiercely dedicated to the notion that the effective exchange of
information among people is absolutely essential to the welfare and well-being of
modern civil society. They believe that market forces are the
means to achieving that end.
Together, we can do amazing things
What else can we do?
There is much work to do
Where’s the smoking gun?
We are a privilegedgeneration.
In your lifetime you will define how digital, mobile and networked services in the library (and in publishing) will evolve for the decades to come.