Towards collaboration at scale: Libraries, the social and the technical
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The document discusses the evolving role of libraries and technology in reshaping collaboration, workflows, and research practices in a digital environment. It highlights the impact of emerging technologies like cloud computing, mobile, and big data on libraries and emphasizes the importance of community-oriented practices and knowledge sharing. The text outlines new models for library collections and services that prioritize user needs and facilitate coordinated collaboration at scale.
Towards collaboration at scale: Libraries, the social and the technical
- 1. Towards collaboration at scale: Libraries, the social and the technical OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Council meeting, RMIT University, Melbourne. 3-4 December 2015. Lorcan Dempsey @LorcanD http://www.mfacade.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/DSC02547-Edited-Edited.jpg
- 2. The social and the technical
- 3. Graph 1 Rapid growth in some things Graph 2 Rapid decline in some other things • Cloud • Mobile • Social • Sensors/ collectors • Big data • Analytics • Processing/ • storage capacity • Google!! • Interaction costs
- 4. • Amazon: logistics and e- commerce • Walmart: supply chain • Google: machine learning • Target: predictive analytics • Uber • FaceBook (safe) • Square • Nest 1. Cataloguing and resource sharing 2. Electronic journals 3. Emerging network platforms – shared library systems, shared print, preservation, data, …
- 5. Technology as artifact Technology as practice Reshapes organizations, workflow and behavior The technical reshapes the social – the social reshapes the technical I borrow artifact/practice terms from Wanda Orlikowski, 2000. Using Technology and Constituting Structures: A Practice Lens for Studying Technology in Organizations
- 6. Technology in practice: an example Cell phone and mobility
- 7. Micro- coordination Ad hoc rendezvous Location Tying place and network. Maps Visual Tying place, network and image Cell phone
- 8. “Digital information is the fuel of mobility,” he says. “Some transport sociologists say that information about mobility is 50% of mobility. The car will become an accessory to the smartphone.” End of the car age: how cities are outgrowing the automobile http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/apr/28/end-of-the-car-age-how-cities- outgrew-the-automobile http://peterblade.blogspot.com/2012/05/inauguration-du-showroom-peter-blade.html
- 10. “Uber – has effectively become the vascular system for business … or think of it this way: it is the broadband pipe for atoms.” “Uber looks like a taxi business but really it's all about routing - it's trying to unbundle both car ownership and public transport and shift roads from circuit-switching to packet-switching.” B Evans. http://us6.campaign- archive2.com/?u=b98e2de85f03865f1d38de74f&id=ac5933501b “More and more, Uber is positioning itself as a logistics company. The goal is to deliver people and things within cities as quickly as possible — relying heavily on Google’s Maps in the process..” NYT May 7 2015
- 11. Uber drivers— and other “on-demand” workers— have become increasingly vocal as the question the rights of these enterprises to operate outside of minimum wage laws, anti-discrimination statutes, workers’ compensation laws, and union- organizing rights. … In a Wall Street Journal article about on- demand employment, One worker tells the WSJ, ‘We are not robots; we are not a remote control; we are individuals…” http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/the-digital-debate/shoshana-zuboff-on-the-sharing-economy-13500770-p4.html Shoshana Zuboff on the sharing economy.
- 13. A communication device. Connecting identity, place and workflows to reshape industries and behaviors. This: And this:
- 14. 3 library examples Citation management Institutional repository > workflow is the new content The collections shift
- 15. Technology as practice Reshaping behaviors/workflows Citation management
- 16. So in a relatively short time, a solitary and manual function has evolved into a workflow enacted in a social and digital environment. In addition to functional value, this change has added network value, as individual users benefit from the community of use. People can make connections and find new work, and the network generates analytics which may be used for recommendations or scholarly metrics. In this way, for some people, citation management has evolved from being a single function in a broader workflow into a workflow manager, discovery engine, and social network. Dempsey & Walter, 2014 http://crl.acrl.org/content/75/6/760.full.pdf+html
- 17. Identity > workflow > content
- 18. Provide and promote reference manager products. Support – and help shape - emerging practices around citation management, research networking and profiles. This: And this:
- 19. Technology as practice Reshaping behaviors/workflows Institutional repository > workflow is the new content
- 20. In a well-known article, Salo (2008) offers a variety of reasons as to why they have not been as heavily used as anticipated. These include a lack of attention to faculty incentives (‘prestige’) and to campus workflows. She concludes that IRs will not be successful unless developed as a part of “systematic, broad-based, well-supported data-stewardship, scholarly-communication, or digital-preservation program”. Providing technology as artifact > Supporting emerging practices http://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/22088
- 21. http://www.slideshare.net/repofringe/e-prints42y EPrints Update, Les Carr, University of Southampton, Repository Fringe, 2014 1 2 3 2 3 1
- 22. Framing the Scholarly Record …
- 23. In practice …
- 26. Her view is that publishers are here to make the scientific research process more effective by helping them keep up to date, find colleagues, plan experiments, and then share their results. After they have published, the processes continues with gaining a reputation, obtaining funds, finding collaborators, and even finding a new job. What can we as publishers do to address some of scientists’ pain points? Annette Thomas, (then) CEO of Macmillan Publishers A publisher’s new job description http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/11/a-publishers-new-job-description/
- 27. Support - and help shape - emerging practices around the complete research life cycle. Provide system to manage documentary research outputs. This: And this:
- 28. Technology as practice Reshaping behaviors/workflows The collections shift – 4 contexts and towards the facilitated collection
- 29. The logic of print distribution influenced library development: • Close to user – multiple library collections. • Big = good. • Just in case. 1
- 30. The bubble of growth in twentieth-century printed collections has left … librarians with a tricky problem. Barbara Fister New Roles for the Road Ahead: Essays commissioned for ACRL’s 75th Birthday
- 31. Strategic management of the collective print collection • Managing down print. • Emerging shared infrastructure and collective action. • Space reconfigured around experiences rather than collections.
- 32. An abundance of resources in the network world 2
- 33. Discovery moved to the network level • Peeled away from local collection • “Discovery happens elsewhere” • Discoverability very important (WorldCat syndication) 3
- 34. From consumption to creation: • Support process as well as product, making as well as taking • Workflow is the new content.. • Support for publishing and digital scholarship. • An inside out perspective increasingly important. 4
- 35. From owned/licensed to facilitated. • Organized around user needs • Curation is community oriented? Collections shift …
- 36. The ‘owned’ collection The ‘facilitated’ collection The ‘borrowed’ collection A collections spectrum The ‘shared print’ collection The ‘shared digital’ collection The evolving scholarly record Purchased and physically stored Meet research and learning needs in best way The ‘licensed’ collection The ‘demand- driven’ collection The ‘external’ collection: Pointing researchers at Google Scholar; Including freely available ebooks in the catalog; Creating resource guides for web resources.
- 37. The ‘owned’ collection The ‘facilitated’ collection The ‘borrowed’ collection A collections spectrum The ‘shared print’ collection The ‘shared digital’ collection The evolving scholarly record Purchased and physically stored Meet research and learning needs in best way Collaboration – requires ‘conscious coordination’
- 38. Network logic: coordination of external and collaborative services around user needs. Print logic: distributed library model. This: And this:
- 39. Discovery at network level Support for research/creation Local collectionsPlace
- 40. The new context of collaboration 1. The institution 2. The user 3. Systemwide
- 41. 1. Institutional Convergence, boundaries, cooperation IT and Library ‘Digital’ Network, Compute, Storage, Security Research and learning workflow, Data Learning management, Library, research support office, Press, …. Older model of integration: Integration around artifact: IT and Library organization. Common in the UK and some other sectors in 90s. A new model of integration: Integrate around practices? Shared support for data management, research and learning workflows, ..
- 42. Our traditional model was one in which we thought of the user in the life of the library … but we are now increasingly thinking about the library in the life of the user as they enact new research and learning practices. 2. Deeper engagement with research and learning behaviors of library users – a partner in knowledge creation.
- 43. 3. Conscious coordination – collaboration at scale - rightscaling? The ‘borrowed’ collection The ‘shared print’ collection The ‘shared digital’ collection The evolving scholarly record
- 44. So …
- 45. Manage systems and services to support research and learning. Support – and help shape - knowledge creation and sharing practices in data-rich network environments. This: And this:
- 46. Collaboration at scale A shared data network that connects people to knowledge through the world’s libraries and their collections. A platform for library services that enables libraries to share data, work and resources to save money and deliver value to their users.
Editor's Notes
- #24: http://global.oup.com/uk/orc/busecon/economics/carlin/
- #42: In the UK in the 80s and 90s it was common for Libraries and IT to merge. At one stage over 50% of universities had this model. It was also adopted elsewhere. This belongs to an earlier stage, when it was thought possible to isolate technology-as-artifact – all the ‘digital’ stuff was being put together. As the digital has become more pervasive I had thought we would see a differently structured integration emerge, where the ‘infrastructure’ was managed by one group (network, compute, storage, security, …), and research and learning workflows were managed in a more integrated way in some new organizational contexts. For example, think about learning management, research support, data curation, university press, and so on. In practice we have not see this happened widely. It will be interesting to see how services do emerge to meet the needs of research and learning behaviors increasingly enacted in data-rich, network environments.