transforming libraries: be the change dr. m. sai baba associate director, resources management group...
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Transforming Libraries:Be the Change
Dr. M. Sai BabaAssociate Director, Resources Management Group
Professor, Homi Bhabha National InstituteOfficial Spokesperson
Adjunct Professor, PSG College of Technology
“ From Building Collections to Making Connections: Transforming Libraries in the Knowledge Era”
NACLIN 2014DELNET & French Institute of Pondicherry
December 9-11, 2014
Our Knowledge is the amassed thought and experiences of innumerable minds
-R.W.Emerson
Transforming Libraries: Be the Change
Today we live in a competitive world, which is rapidly evolving, where everyday life is dependent on Information and Knowledge
Libraries play a vital role for serving the people with the necessary information
Scholarly literature: growing gradually New facets are being added progressively Inter-disciplinary approach
Information Tsunami
Information Explosion
Transforming Libraries: Be the Change
The problem ?
Trying to control the content in : Information explosion
exponential growth of information Communication explosion
exponential growth of means and ways by which information is:
communicated, transmitted,accesses, and used
Transforming Libraries: Be the Change
in Transition
Print > Electronic Strong emphasis on
digitizing local collections
New generations of users:• Millennial generation Web savvy
Transforming Libraries: Be the Change
Information
Users
library and information science no longer confined to four walls of classification and cataloguing
Automation To embrace new concepts
digitization, wikis, blogging,
podcasts other web related technologies
Traditional Libraries
Transforming Libraries: Be the Change
Towards the Digital Library
Three Key Transformations
From
Database/Repository
to
Managed Digital Space Environment
Seamless(fully integrated with
digital learningand research; beyond?)
Community(resources, people, interaction, process, activities, services)
Omnipresent(it will be wherever the users are)
Dynamic & Organic(the users will construct it as much as we will)
From
Information Management
to
Knowledge Management
Explicit & Tacit Knowledge(beyond recorded information)
Coherence & Sense Making(value added outcomes
and benefits)
People Centric(a focus on understanding not just data)
Trusted Information Systems(status, reputation, influence, impact)
Wireless Communication(whenever, wherever, right now)
From
People Finding Information
to
Information Finding People
Intelligent AgentsPersonal Information Systems(discovery, assistance, utility)
Smart Information(telemetry, propagation)
Managing People’s Interests(trusted information systems)
Control(users not systems)
Challenges in Digital Libraries
representing, storing and retrieving of library objects particularly if originally designed to be printed
operationally managing large collections - issues of scale
dealing with diverse and distributed collections interoperability; federated searching
assuring preservation and persistence incorporating rights management
Transforming Libraries: Be the Change
Problem with Current Digital Libraries
Digital Libraries consist of a huge collection of data which cannot be retrieved in contexts other than the one it was published forThe problem is –Computers do not understand the semantics of the stored informationInability to integrate and process the available data automatically.This results in inefficient information retrieval system and poor data integration
Transforming Libraries: Be the Change
Semantic Digital Libraries: Adding contextual meaning to the search
Acquisitions
Traditionally
Book placed inStacks
Requestplaced by
patron
Book invoiced,processed
Book sent to Acquisitions
Order placed with vendor
Patron uses book, finds references
Transforming Libraries: Be the Change
Patron Driven Acquisitions
Innovative acquisitions modelSeamless acquisition or lending of e-booksPurchase triggered by threshold
Acquisitions Advancement
Transforming Libraries: Be the Change
Lots of non-library Web destinations Delivering content to patrons Google Scholar Amazon.com Wikipedia Ask.com
Do Library Web sites and catalogs meet the information needs of our users?
Do they attract their interest?
Crowded Landscape of Information Providers on the Web
Workforce Challenges
: Google uses retrieval algorithms based on ranking and relevance to the search termusers likely to feel that it’s a more useful tool for research than a library catalog that often ranks relevant items in chronological order
The ease of use has made Google Scholar popular amongst the users who were in the past drawn to more traditional resources
The challenge: users bypassing the library
Use of Blogs in Libraries
Blogs Can Help to Communicate with Library Users
Librarians have long used a variety of means for getting information about the library out to our communities – newsletters, alerts, emails, posters and flyers and more
Using a blog offers the opportunity to innovate your communications. Blogging gives you a way to push information out, but also to gather feedback and build a community without having very much technical know-how
Workforce Challenges
Importance of Traditional Skills still RelevantWorking within continued hybrid environment with new skills sets to achieve
Need for new model for facilitating acquisition and exposition of different skills sets
Encouragement and appreciation of the need for relevant portfolio skills development
Workforce Challenges
Building the Libraries of Future
Managing the Knowledge/Information/Data Revolution
Dealing with Digitisation Leading Transformation Realising New Platforms Building a Community of Practice Unlocking the Staff Potential Ensuring Sustainability
Workforce Challenges
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Move from cooperation to collaboration ( Cloud)
Focus on the needs of users & Build the e-collection
Provide all services to the user desktops
Redesign Library spaces as people space, not storage areas
Integration of the latest technology and value added services in library
Librarians to turn as technocrats in this Google generation
How to Get There: Building a Transformed Library
Making Information available: The futureTraditionally: build - Just in case collections
Standardisation of e-books / e-readers Offer printing on demand services
delivering books in digitized form on request
from ‘just in case’ collections to ‘just in time’ collections?digital collections with focus on computational use
Collections housed in national/regional warehouses
TREND: DIGITAL, JUST IN TIME
Thank you for your attention