Building a Digital Library
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The document discusses the evolution and strategies of building a digital library to support research and learning, emphasizing the shift from traditional physical collections to digital formats. It outlines the mission and operations needed to acquire, preserve, and provide access to both digital and print resources, while addressing challenges such as preservation responsibilities and the skills gap. Additionally, it highlights the importance of trust and collaboration within the library's infrastructure and services to successfully navigate the digital transition.
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Building a Digital Library
- 1. Building a Digital Library Ed Fay Digital Library Manager e.fay@lse.ac.uk @digitalfay
- 3. Building a Digital Library Context •Library collections and trends •Digital/physical and local/£ What, Why, and How •Mission | strategy | operation •Business case •Roles and responsibilities •Skills Conclusions •Lessons learnt Questions
- 5. …and not
- 6. But, first: Just to clear something up … ‘Digital’ vs ‘electronic’ is meaningless
- 7. LSE Library Collections Local £ • Research outputs (publications, data) • Journals • Digitisation • Books • Public lectures • Newspapers • Web harvesting (websites, blogs, tweets) • Statistics / data Digital • Archives (institutional, personal) • Theses • Official publications • Archives (institutional, personal) • Monographs • Theses • Journals • Official publications Physical • Pamphlets • Newspapers • Statistics • Microfilm
- 8. Purchased / licensed collections * Total acquisitions per year
- 9. Research outputs repository * New additions per month
- 10. Digital archives * New hybrid or digital collections per year
- 11. Library space * Metres added per year
- 12. What do the figures tell us? * (Varying or approximate scales)
- 13. What do the figures tell us?
- 14. What do the figures tell us? Print is declining (not dead) Digital is increasing (£ and local) Workloads are changing Team structures are changing Digital is no longer a project-based activity – it is an embedded activity
- 15. What does the digital shift mean Digital preservation • We need to do it Surfacing content to the Web • Wait, we’re publishers now? • … and interaction designers? • and … Collaborative digital projects • Supporting new research methods
- 16. Preservation responsibility Local £ • Consortia Digital • LSE Digital Library • LOCKSS • Portico • Archives Services • Print Collections Physical • Consortium • Print Collections • UKRR
- 17. BORN-DIGITAL ARCHIVES DIGITISATION RESEARCH OUTPUTS WEB HARVESTING PUBLIC LECTURES OFFICIAL PUBS FUTURE… ?
- 18. Mission | Strategy “Build and preserve distinctive collections to support research and learning, and represent a record of thought in the social sciences” “Develop our digital library so that we are able to acquire, preserve and provide access to digital collections which match the strength of our print collections” “…information repository services to support new forms of scholarly communication and enable the School to manage, disseminate and preserve these intellectual assets”
- 19. Business Case • Collections audit • Formats, volume/growth • User and functional requirements • Preservation, access • Options appraisal (‘market survey’) • Best practice investigation, repository architectures • Proposal • Risk assessment: threats to our strategic objectives • Solution: working practices, skills, infrastructure • Development roadmap
- 20. Trust That’s what it’s all about. I mean everything. Seriously. Here’s why…
- 21. I [trust] LSE Digital Library Activity overlooked or under resourced Inadequate staff skills Media Failure of degradation or authenticity, obsolescence integrity, Loss of provenance essential Loss of trust characteristics or reputation Insufficient Cannot backups implement preservation Infrastructure plans cannot support requirements
- 22. Solution Phased development of technical infrastructure, staff skills
- 23. What we planned… Start with preservation. Then think about management. Then (maybe) access. Even (perhaps) for actual users.
- 24. What we did… Started with access. Then (actually, now) preservation. But, it worked…
- 25. Why did it work?
- 26. The Iceberg Model of Digital Libraries interfaces collections/objects workflows systems storage digital preservation
- 27. The Iceberg Model of Digital Libraries interfaces collections/objects workflows systems storage digital preservation
- 28. Roles and responsibilities Academic Services Senior Management • Collection development Collection development • Strategy • Information skills training Information skills training • Resources Digital Library Team • Policy Policy • Skills expertise Skills / / expertise • Innovation / projects Innovation / projects Collection Services Archive Services • Preservation Preservation • Collection development Collection development • Description Description • Description Description • Infrastructure Infrastructure • Preservation Preservation
- 29. Skills Experts: policy, change management Practitioners: workflows, quality assurance Non-specialists: aware Skills gap analysis Role Description Skills Resource Target
- 30. SPRUCE a project to inspire, guide, support and enable UK HEIs to address preservation gaps; and to use the knowledge gathered from that support work to articulate a compelling business case for digital preservation • Events: digital preservation solutions • Embedding: grants to continue work • Business case: benefits, skills gaps http://dpconline.org/advocacy/spruce
- 31. DICE (Digital Communications Enhancement) Training materials to raise awareness of digital preservation in researchers and library training providers http://lsedice.wordpress.com
- 32. PhoneBooth Delivering Library content to mobile devices Booth maps and notebooks http://jiscphonebooth.wordpress.com
- 33. Conclusions Digital is changing the how of libraries, not the what or why Skills are fundamental, then working practices and infrastructure If we don’t do this, we fail … … but, digital is also fun
- 34. Questions? me: twitter.com/digitalfay or e.fay@lse.ac.uk LSE Digital Library: digital.library.lse.ac.uk SPRUCE: dpconline.org/advocacy/spruce PhoneBooth: jiscphonebooth.wordpress.com DICE: lsedice.wordpress.com
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