Library Catalogs at the Network Level
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Roy Tennant discusses how library services can be improved by concentrating resources and data in a centralized location while also diffusing library holdings and links to services in places where users search for information online. Some benefits of concentration include improved search ranking, increased holdings and usage data to mine, better user-contributed content through sharing and improvements, and the ability to attract more attention and redirect users. Benefits of diffusion include syndicating library holdings wherever people search online, allowing smaller libraries to participate alongside larger ones, and creating more paths for users to discover library resources.
Library Catalogs at the Network Level
- 1. Roy Tennant
- 4. Then: Users built workflow around libraries Now: Library must build services around user workflow Discovery happens elsewhere Disclosure
- 6. The Way It Was Card distribution service Catalogers Bibliographic records Local card catalog Added value
- 7. The Way It Became Bibliographic utility Bibliographic records Catalogers Local catalog Added value
- 8. The Way It Can Be Union catalog, Locally tailored and skinned Bibliographic records Catalogers Added value Benefits accrue to all!
- 9. Benefits of Concentration Search results ranking Holdings data Usage data (e.g., display, circulation) Recommendations of related books User contributed content can be shared User contributed content can be made better Attention can be attracted and redirected
- 10. Benefit of Concentration: Ranking based on number of holding libraries
- 11. Benefit of Concentration: More data to mine
- 13. Benefit of Concentration: Ability to make user- contributed data better
- 14. From: Social Classification and Folksonomy in Art Museums: early data from the steve.museum tagger prototype a paper for the ASIST SIG-CR workshop on Social Classification , November 4, 2006, by Jennifer Trant
- 15. Benefit of Concentration: Ability to perform “switching service” for all participants
- 18. Benefits of Diffusion Library holdings syndicated into places where people are found (e.g., Google) Small libraries can play in big spaces The more paths there are, the easier it is for people to reach you
- 19. Benefit of Concentration: Exposed in spaces where potential users are found
- 23. Concentration A webscale presence Mobilize data Diffusion Disclosure of links, data and services