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Crónica de un cambio anunciado: el blog de Lorcan Dempsey como relato del cambio continuo en las bibliotecas desde comienzos del siglo XXI
Get PDFLa American Library Association publicó en 2014 (disponible ahora en abierto) la obra de Lorcan Dempsey The network reshapes the library: Lorcan Dempsey on libraries, services, and networks editada por Kenneth J. Varnum. Dempsey, Lorcan (2014). The network reshapes the library. Lorcan Dempsey on libraries, services, and networks. Chicago: ALA. 295 p. ISBN: 978 0838912331 https://goo.gl/Ab706
The network reconfigures the library systems environment
No full textOne of the main issues facing libraries as they work to create richer user services is the complexity of their systems environment
A policy context - eLib and the emergence of the subject gateways
Get PDFThis brief paper outlines some of the features of the policy environment which led to the setting up of the influential 'subject gateways' as part of the Electronic Libraries Programme. It has the modest and partial ambition of putting some of the discussions of the time on record. It should be read as a companion piece to two other articles. The first, Law 1994, develops the historical context for the emergence of the data centres, a central component of JISC information infrastructure, and collaterally discusses the broad thrust of JISC's developing informational activity. The second, Dempsey 2000, upon which this piece is partly based, provides a broad discussion of the emergence of the subject gateways and the historical trajectory which led to the setting up of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN), which now provides an umbrella for JISC-funded subject-gateway activity. This article has a particular focus: it looks at some aspects of the policy background which led to the funding of the subject gateways. It does not discuss emerging services and approaches that also influenced developments
University Futures, Library Futures: Aligning library strategies with institutional directions
No full textUniversity Futures, Library Futures: Aligning library strategies with institutional directions establishes a new framework for understanding the fit between emerging library service paradigms and university types.Supported in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, project leads Constance Malpas, Lorcan Dempsey, and Rona Stein from OCLC Research and Roger Schonfeld and Deanna Marcum of Ithaka S+R, examined the impact of increased institutional differentiation in universities on the organization of academic libraries and the services they provide.As libraries move away from a collections model in which libraries measure their success by how large their collections are, this report puts a framework around library services, explores emerging patterns in different institutional settings, and gauges the importance of these services areas—now and for the future—according to surveyed library directors.The work has three main components:a working model of US higher education institutions that is characterized by educational activity (Research, Liberal Education, Career-directed) and mode of provision (traditional-residential and new-traditional-flexible)a library services framework that covers nine key areascomparison of the above two to test the hypothesis that the services portfolio of libraries map onto the institutional priorities of their host universit
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No full textGanz nett: Lorcan Dempsey und Kollegen haben die Tausend unter den OCLC-Mitgliedsbibliotheken derzeit am weitesten verbreiteten Buchtitel bei del.icio.us veröffentlicht
Stewardship of the evolving scholarly record: from the invisible hand to conscious coordination
Get PDFThe scholarly record is increasingly digital and networked, while at the same time expanding in both the volume and diversity of the material it contains. The long-term future of the scholarly record cannot be effectively secured with traditional stewardship models developed for print materials. This report describes the key features of future stewardship models adapted to the characteristics of a digital, networked scholarly record, and discusses some practical implications of implementing these models.
Key highlights include:
As the scholarly record continues to evolve, conscious coordination will become an important organizing principle for stewardship models.
Past stewardship models were built on an "invisible hand" approach that relied on the uncoordinated, institution-scale efforts of individual academic libraries acting autonomously to maintain local collections.
Future stewardship of the evolving scholarly record requires conscious coordination of context, commitments, specialization, and reciprocity.
With conscious coordination, local stewardship efforts leverage scale by collecting more of less.
Keys to conscious coordination include right-scaling consolidation, cooperation, and community mix.
Reducing transaction costs and building trust facilitate conscious coordination.
Incentives to participate in cooperative stewardship activities should be linked to broader institutional priorities.
The long-term future of the scholarly record in its fullest expression cannot be effectively secured with stewardship strategies designed for print materials. The features of the evolving scholarly record suggest that traditional stewardship strategies, built on an “invisible hand” approach that relies on the uncoordinated, institution-scale efforts of individual academic libraries acting autonomously to maintain local collections, is no longer suitable for collecting, organizing, making available, and preserving the outputs of scholarly inquiry.
As the scholarly record continues to evolve, conscious coordination will become an important organizing principle for stewardship models. Conscious coordination calls for stewardship strategies that incorporate a broader awareness of the system-wide stewardship context; declarations of explicit commitments around portions of the local collection; formal divisions of labor within cooperative arrangements; and robust networks for reciprocal access. Stewardship strategies based on conscious coordination involve an acceleration of an already perceptible transition away from relatively autonomous local collections to ones built on networks of cooperation across many organizations, within and outside the traditional cultural heritage community
Understanding the Collective Collection: Towards a System-wide Perspective on Library Print Collections
Get PDFUnderstanding the Collective Collection: Towards a System-wide Perspective on Library Print Collections brings together the important work that OCLC Research has done for the community in providing a quantitative, analytic, system-wide view of library collections. This body of work has established an evidence base that has allowed and encouraged libraries to begin the shift from local provisioning of library collections and services to increased reliance on cooperative infrastructure, collective collections, shared technology platforms, and "above-the-institution" management strategies.OCLC Vice President, Research, and Chief Strategist Lorcan Dempsey describes why OCLC Research has had a major interest in the "collective collection"—a term he coined to describe collective development, management and disclosure of collections across groups of libraries at different levels. He also provides the context for this work in the report's introduction, The Emergence of the Collective Collection: Analyzing Aggregate Print Library Holdings, which is also available as a separate document. In this introduction, Lorcan describes OCLC Research's three broad interests around better understanding the existing collective collection and supporting the optimal evolution of reconfigured collections:Understanding the characteristics of the collective print collectionSupporting policy and service decision-making with good intelligence based on WorldCat and other data resourcesUnderstanding patterns or trends within the scholarly and cultural record.This work is an output of OCLC Research's focus on Understanding the System-wide Library. It has changed the way in which libraries think about where they source their needs and the scale at which they must organize to deliver new and traditional services. It also embodies the way that the OCLC cooperative both serves and helps shape the library community of which it is part
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No full text<![CDATA[Wie man Worte auf die Nägel bekommt, beschreibt dieser Eintrag auf dem "Frauen-Netzwerk" (Klaus Graf) Pinterest. Allerdings gibt es auch schon in einigen Bibliothekskatalogen "Pin it" Buttons, mit denen man interessante Titel aus dem Bibliothekskatalog auf seinen Pinboards unterbringen kann. Weitere Infos zu Pinterest in Bibliotheken u.a. bei Lorcan Dempsey.]]
VILSC 2024 Opening and Keynote
No full textA recording of the opening of the 2024 Vancouver Island Library Staff Conference, including an Elders' welcome from Dr. Skip Dick of Songhees Nation and May Sam of Lhumlhumuluts and a keynote talk by Lorcan Dempsey from the University of Washington: "Libraries and AI: Managing the messy middle."FacultyUnreviewe
Catalogue 2.0: the future of the library catalogue
No full textBrings together some of the foremost international cataloguing practitioners and thought leaders, including Lorcan Dempsey, Emmanuelle Bermès, Marshall Breeding and Karen Calhoun, to provide an overview of the current state of the art of the library catalogue and look ahead to see what the library catalogue might become
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