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ALA Annual 2014/Las Vegas, NV
Eric Childress
OCLC Research Update
Consulting Project Manager
OCLC Research
• Research group devoted exclusively to exploring the challenges facing libraries & archives
Advanced Development
Community R&D
Member/Partner Engagement
Identify challenges, evaluate responses, survey, investigate, analyze, report, prototype, data work…
Convene, connect, shape, influence
Experiment with new processes, software, systems
OCLC ResearchLibrary Partnership
Incl. 22 of Top 25 Universities
Honored, we are
2014
Forthcoming
• Expertly curated selection of entries from Dempsey’s blog
• Available 3rd quarter 2014– Pre-orders may be
placed with ALA online or at the ALA bookstore
Alien Abductions, Jazz, Love Stories
What in the WorldCat?• Because even library
data should have a playful side!
• Fair warning: More coming soon
• Suggestions welcomehttp://oclc.org/research/wtworldcat.html
Today’s presentations
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ALA Annual 2014Las Vegas, NV June 30, 2014
Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ph.D.
Reordering Ranganathan:Shifting User Behaviors, Shifting Priorities
Senior Research ScientistOCLC [email protected]@LynnConnaway
Ixchel M. Faniel, Ph.D. Associate Research ScientistOCLC [email protected]
Moved from an era of content scarcity to one of incredible abundance and diversity
(Connaway and Faniel 2014, 4)
Ranganathan’s Original Laws
Our Interpretation and Reordering
Embed library systems and services into users’ existing workflows
(Connaway and Faniel 2014, 15)
Know your community and its needs
(Connaway and Faniel 2014, 32)
Develop the physical and technical infrastructure to deliver materials
(Connaway and Faniel 2014, 51)
Increase the discoverability, access and use of resources within users’ existing workflows
(Connaway and Faniel 2014, 74)
A library is a growing organism(Connaway and Faniel 2014, 92)
References
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, and Ixchel M. Faniel. 2014. Reordering Ranganathan: Shifting user behaviors, shifting priorities. Dublin, OH: OCLC Research. http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2014/oclcresearch-reordering-ranganathan-2014.pdf.
Dempsey, Lorcan. 2012. Thirteen ways of looking at libraries, discovery, and the catalog: Scale, workflow, attention. EDUCAUSE Review Online (December 10, 2012), http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/thirteen-ways-looking-libraries-discovery-and-catalog-scale-workflow-attention.
Ranganathan, Shiyali Ramamrita. 1931. The five laws of library science. London: Edward Goldston, Ltd.
Acknowledgements
Without the help of Andy Havens, Brad Gauder and Tom Storey for their insightful contributions and valuable feedback; Julianna Barrera-Gomez, Alyssa Darden, Erin M. Hood and Carrie Vass for their dedicated research support; Tam Dalrymple, Larry Olszewski and Jennifer Smither for their thoughtful comments; and Renee Page for her talented design and layout expertise, it would have been difficult to make this report a reality.
Funding A Cyberinfrastructure Evaluation of the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering
Simulation (NEES), funded by the National Science Foundation (CMMI-0714116)The Cyber Synergy: Seeking Sustainability through Collaboration between Virtual Reference and Social
Q&A Sites, funded by the Institution of Museum and Library Services (LG-06-11-0342-11) in collaboration with OCLC Research, and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
The Digital Information Seeker Report, jointly sponsored by Jisc and OCLC ResearchThe Digital Visitors and Residents: What Motivates Engagement with the Digital Information
Environment? project, funded by Jisc in collaboration with the University of Oxford, OCLC Research, and the University of North Carolina
The Dissemination Information Packages for Information Reuse (DIPIR) project, funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services (LG-06-10-0140-10) in collaboration with the University of Michigan
The Seeking Synchronicity: Evaluating Virtual Reference Services from User, Non-user and Librarian Perspectives, funded by the Institution of Museum and Library Services (LG-06-05-0109-05) in collaboration with OCLC Research, and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
The Virtual Research Environment (VRE) Study, which was a collaborative project between Jisc and OCLC Research
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Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ph.D. Senior Research Scientist [email protected] @LynnConnaway
Ixchel M. Faniel, Ph.D. Associate Research Scientist [email protected]
Reordering Ranganathan: Shifting User Behaviors, Shifting Priorities Webinar with Lynn Silipigni Connaway and Ixchel FanielTuesday, 8 July 11am-12pm EDT
http://oc.lc/rrreportwebinar
ALA Annual 2014/Las Vegas, NV
Karen Smith-Yoshimura
Multilingual Bibliographic StructureProgram Officer
WorldCat Today
• Resources in nearly all languages
• Contributed by more than 20,000 libraries worldwide
• More than half the database is for works not in English
Languages
EnglishGermanFrenchSpanishChineseDutchJapaneseRussianArabic469 others
Leo Tolstoy: 32 languagesHomer: 28 languages
Rabindranath Tagore: 21Isaac Bashevis Singer: 17Najib Mahfuz: 12 languages
Cao Xueqin: 9 languages
Mahatma Gandhi: 7 languages
Murasaki Shikabu: 7 languages
Translations
ΙλιάδαThe Iliad 紅樓夢
Dream of the Red Chamber
Война и миръWar and Peace
ঘরে� বা�ইরে�The Home and the World
સતયના� પરયો�ગો� અથવા� આતમકથ�The Story of My Experiments with Truth [Gandhi autobiography]
源氏物語
The Tale of Genji
דער בעל-תשובהThe Penitent
زقاق المدقMidaq Alley
Title: Journey to the WestLanguage: EnglishTranslator: Anthony C. YuDate: 1977IsTranslationOf:
Title: Journey to the WestLanguage: EnglishTranslator: W. J. F. JennerDate: 1982-1984IsTranslationOf:
Title: 西遊記Language: ChineseAuthor: 吳承恩Created: 1592HasTranslation:
Title: Tay du ky binh khaoLanguage: VietnameseTranslator: Phan QuanDate: 1980IsTranslationOf:
Title: 西遊記Language: JapaneseTranslator: 中野美代子Date: 1986IsTranslationOf:
Title: Monkeys PilgerfahrtLanguage: GermanTranslator: Georgette Boner Date: 1983IsTranslationOf:
Addition of xR records to VIAF
Before
After
UNESCO Translation Database
The UNESCO database has translations in only 3 languages of 雪国
# Original Work (in Chinese)<http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/1215997>
a schema:CreativeWork; schema:creator <http://viaf.org/viaf/102266649> ; # "Gao,
Xingjian” schema:inLanguage "zh"; schema:name "靈山 "@zh..
# Translated Work (in English)<http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/145209748>
a schema:CreativeWork; schema:creator <http://viaf.org/viaf/102266649> ; # "Gao, Xingjian“ [new]:translator <http://viaf.org/viaf/81663420> ; # "Lee, Mabel" schema:inLanguage "en"; schema:name "Soul Mountain"@en ; [new]:translationOfWork <http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/1215997> .
Markup for the Semantic Web
Understanding information sharing across cultures
• What percentage of non-English works are translations of English works, and vice-versa?• Which authors are translated the most?• Which works have been translated into the most languages?• Which countries translate the most English works, the most non-English works?• Which countries translate a new work the fastest?• How many translations are from the original work (not a translation of a translation)?Etc.
http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/multilingual-bib-structure.html
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Karen Smith-YoshimuraProgram Officer
@KarenS_Y
ALA Annual 2014/Las Vegas, NV
Constance Malpas
The Evolving Scholarly Record
Program Officer
With thanks to Brian Lavoie, Ricky Erway,
Jennifer Schaffner, Titia Van der Werf, Ixchel Faniel and Eric Childress
http://archiveshub.ac.uk/blog/2012/10/the-new-scholarly-record/
The network reconfigures the record?
Faculty: what establishes credentials, contributes to professional advancement
Library: what is selected, preserved
Researchers: what is necessary to validate & build on current literature
Date $ bn2012-01-01 16289.62012-04-01 16419.22012-07-01 16603.72012-10-01 16677.32013-01-01 16772.72013-04-01 16907.92013-07-01 17175.9
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Publishers: peer-reviewed content
Scholarly record: content & perspective
‘Meters’ :what is cited
Stakeholder roles reconfiguring: New paths for the scholarly communication supply chain
Format transition:Print-centric to digital, networked
Framework
Boundaries blurring: Articles/monographs, but also research data, computer models, video, blogs, visualizations, conference posters & presentations, pre-prints, etc.
Create
Fix
Use
Collect
Key characteristics impacting stewardship …• Increasing volume of content• Increasing diversity/complexity of content• Increasing distribution of custodial
responsibility
‘local copies’ of scholarly record are increasingly partial discovery and management are increasingly fragmented coherence of scholarly record is reduced
Stakeholders
• Community consultation around framework– Use cases for library assessment , alt-
metrics, collection development strategies, etc.
• Stewardship of ‘system-wide’ scholarly record– Higher education trends that are driving
concentration/distribution of custodial roles– Division of labor; incentives & benefits– Coordination models; cooperative
infrastructure
What’s next ..
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Constance MalpasProgram Officer
@ConstanceM
ALA Annual 2014/Las Vegas, NV
Dennis Massie
We’re Building an Interlibrary Loan Cost Calculator!Program Officer
Where can I find ILL cost data?
$16.93/$10.56
$17.82/$9.56
$17.50/$9.27
$9.62/$3.93(23 responses)
(72 responses)
Old Apples vs New Oranges
• 2002– Filled requests only– Selective tracking of
unmediated methods
• 2011– Filled and unfilled– No tracking of mediated
vs unmediated
• Meanwhile:– Libraries are now
lending from electronic holdings
– Print items are being loaned directly from offsite storage
– Many new methods, models, and technologies have emerged
• Megan Gaffney, University of Delaware
• Justin Hill, Temple University
• Margarita Moreno, National Library of Australia
• Ralph LeVan and Dennis Massie, OCLC Research
ILL Cost Calculator Working Group
• Users want to know:– Their resource sharing unit costs– How those costs evolve over time– How their costs compare with peers
• Users would like to project:– The financial impact of joining a consortium– Of buying a certain piece of equipment– Of implementing a new service
Use cases, surveys, and wireframes,oh, my!
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Google “oclc ill cost calculator”
• July/August: finish and test• September: call for data• January: report out to the community• June: report some more• September: rinse, repeat
Time frame
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