Developing science & technology information strengths through

consortia and international

cooperation.

Johann van Reenen, University of New Mexico,

Albuquerque, NM, USA

The University Library of the 20th Century

SNBU 2000; XIth National Seminar for University Libraries

OUTLINE

1. The Innovation Club

Partnering among science and technology equals

2. The Connectivity Club

Partnering among disparate organizations for the greater benefit of science and technology

3. Why join a science and technology connectivity club?

4. How to become a successful partner

“Advice from a slow learner”

LIBRARY SERVICES ALLIANCE OF NEW MEXICO

* New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Library

* New Mexico State University Library

* Air Force Research Laboratories: Phillips

* Sandia National Laboratories Technical Library

* Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library

* University of New Mexico Libraries- Centennial Science & Engineering Library

1999= 218 million

4

billion

in scitech

funding p.y.

From - Library Services Alliance of New Mexicoto - Alliance for Innovation in Science &

Technology Information

* Library Linkages Project of the Ibero-American Science & Technology Education Consortium (ISTEC)

* Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute

* NASA's National Scientific and Technical Information Program

* Naval Research Laboratory

* University of Nevada: Las Vegas & Reno campuses

* Santa Fe Institute

* New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas

* UNM Health Sciences Library

Products and Services

* Passport Program & Rapid Document Delivery* Consortium Database Contracts Soc.SciSearch & SciSearch®@LANL

INSPEC@LANL Engineering Information Village, etceteras

* Fulltext journalsAcademic Press IDEALAIP, IOP, Elsevier, Kluwer, etceteras

* Single Intuitive User-interfacePlus enhancements: Local holdings, Alerts, Links to e-contents

* Collaborative tool sets that facilitate scientific communication and provide insights into knowledge creation and discovery

Linked

to

Changing Visions

Buyers club

1998

To be a world-class information provider to our primary communities, while enhancing the scientific and technical research competitiveness of New Mexico.

Innovation club

1999

To be an innovative leader in cyber sci/tech information, producing new models of scholarly communication.

New Vision * Sample strategic actions

* Community of scientists

* Active recommendation systems

* Cross database searching

* SFX aware databases

* XXX and the Universal Preprint Service

* VxInsight / SciSearch application

INTERCONNECTIVITY 2000

Mission Statement

• ISTEC is a non-profit organization comprised of educational, research, and industrial institutions throughout the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula. The Consortium has been established to foster scientific, engineering, and technology education, joint international research and development efforts among its members, and to provide a cost-effective vehicle for the application of technology

• 12/4/90

Obstacles Identified

• Lack of current information for planning and developing technology

• Lack of expertise in the use of information

• Lack of international cooperation in developing the critical mass needed for projects and joint efforts

• Lack of interaction (lack of confidence and sometimes lack of information) between universities and industries

HISTORY OF ISTECEXPLORED

OPPORTUNITIES

IDENTIFIED OBSTACLES

DEVELOPED RECOMMENDATIONS

CREATED ISTEC MISSION

Library Linkages (LibLink)

Information Technology&

TelecommunicationsAdvanced Continuing

Education (ACE)Los Libertadores

R&D Laboratories (R&D)•

The ISTEC Network - Initiatives

ACE InitiativeGOAL: upgrade of human resources and curriculum development through on-site training, distance learning, and non-traditional exchange programs.

TECHNOLOGY: on-site training, web-based education, video courses, satellite delivery, and “sandwich” graduate programs.

STATISTICS: 6 satellite courses to 250 institutions with ATEI. Short courses for Motorola. 196 scientists trained in DIP with OAS support. Over 30,000 ftp grabs of web DIP course. “Sandwich” programs with Spain, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay, Ecuador, Mexico.

R&D Laboratories InitiativeGOAL: design and installation of modular, flexible, and expandable laboratory facilities for education, training, and R&D (link with productive sector).

TECHNOLOGY: Motorola microprocessors (680XX), microcontrollers (68HC11) and DSPs (56XXX, 96000). Nortel Networks, Fluke, VeriBest.

STATISTICS: to date 29 Motorola facilities; planned expansion to 58. Approximately 20,000 users trained since 1991. 9 facilities with Nortel Networks, 2 with Fluke and 1 with VeriBest. Expansion to 12 facilities with VeriBest.

Los Libertadores Initiative

GOAL: network of Centers of Excellence equipped with the latest telecommunications and computer technology to provide real-time access to a world-wide system of expertise and knowledge.

TECHNOLOGY: creation of the Ibero-American academic and R&D Internet backbone. A partnership among industries and governments.

STATISTICS: technical assistance in telecommunications and S&T legislation in Ecuador, and Bolivia. Participation in IADB’s Informatics 2000 Conference and its Strategy for IT&T.

LatinChipLatinChip™™

• LatinChip™ is a semiconductor processing facility by Motorola SPS (APRDL), USP and UNICAMP • LatinChip™ was launched officially on March 18, 1999• LatinChip™ will be open to all Latin American universities for educational and R&D projects• LatinChip™ is the core capability of the Program for Information Systems Integration (PROISI) at USP and UNICAMP• Technology equipment valued at $ 1.2M has been donated by Motorola in 1998

Clean room

Equipment

Process

Prototypes

1998 1999 2000

Library Linkage Initiative

GOAL: design and implementation of innovative, international Science and Technology information-sharing services.

TECHNOLOGY: Internet services and connectivity. Search and Push engines. Ariel and Randex software. Seed funding from Nortel Networks.

STATISTICS: annual compound growth rate of 200% since 1995. Over 27 libraries in 19 countries connected in real-time. Development of on-line scientific journal, and database on S&T in the region.

Projects within LibLink• Connect libraries for Information Transfer

• Train librarians & researchers in search and retrieval of information

• Expand services to more countries

• Open other collections - especially Latin American collections - for scholars (e.g. LigDoc and PrEBi)

• Develop software for information sharing

Projects within LibLink• Push & search engines

• Plan and carry out workshops

• Expand to other library types and services• NDTL in Ibero-America (Networked Dissertation/Thesis Library Grant

w. IDB, UNESCO, World Bank for pilot with VTU and U.Rio)

• Provide mechanism for data baseexchange of information

• Provide interaction method for ACE, R&D

• Electronic journal (MOU with Virginia tech)

Library Linkages RECENT ACCOMPLSHMENTS

- Increase in LibLink membership and volume of requests- Training for librarians and distance educators in Porto Allegre, Brazil.

During 1998 -99 we focused on outreach in Mexico

Expanding Services: Mexican Case Study

* Spring 1998: ISTEC Technology specialist visited 7 Mexican SciTech institutions (Juan Larranaga)OUTCOME: New members and more information about capacity

* Summer 1998: ISTEC representative participates in NSF / CONACyT computer Sciences Workshop. Identifies Digital Libraries initiatives and researchers; initiate a DL group (Johann)OUTCOME: Critical mass of Computer scientists linked to ISTEC

* Fall 1998: Receive CONACyT funding for a DL conference in Albuquerque and wrote grant for NSF funding. (Ramiro Jordan & Johann v.R.). Funded in Spring 1999.

Expanding Services: Mexican Case Study

* Summer 1999: DL Workshop in Albuquerque (ISTEC and UNM Library workers)OUTCOME: Mexican DL workers, librarians & funding agencies brought together to plan future Mexican National DL Project. OAS participation and sponsorship of other Latin American representatives.

* Late Summer 1999: ISTEC representative toured Mexican SciTech libraries. Begin discussions to create a Mexican LibLink office. (Jorge Garcia)OUTCOME: Critical mass of Mexican SciTech librarians linked to LibLink.

Expanding Services: Mexican Case Study

* Fall 1999: First meeting of Mexican Computer Scientists and Librarians from the above initiatives in Cuernavaca, Mexico (Jorge, Enedina,Ramiro, Johann)

OUTCOME: Establish a Mexican LibLink office and a SciTech Library Network: REBIDIMEX

STATISTICAL HIGHLIGHTS

• In 1998-99 UNM/CSEL supplied 4,660 documents electronically to LibLink members. If standard document delivery charges were applied, the cost would have been US$ 116,500 for a 20K investment.

STATISTICAL HIGHLIGHTS

• - In 1997 UNM/CSEL supplied 86.5% of the scitech articles requested internationally for LigDoc.

• LigDoc is an association of Brazilian scitech libraries modeled after LibLink.

• During the same period the British Lending Library supplied only 13.5%.

21st Century Challenges

• For a nation to achieve world-class competitiveness

– It must utilize state-of-the-art technology

– It must create new and modify existing programs of study

– It must improve its R&D capabilities

– It must promote joint national and international R&D programs

– It must upgrade existing or acquire new information technologies

– It must permit real-time access to information

– It must develop training programs

Why join a connectivity club?

IT&T Trends and Needs

• Does not depend on a specific region

• Demand for IT&T personnel far outstrips supply

• Shortage is dead weight for the economy

• Potential job openings for IT&T workers are 450,000

• CE graduates:

– US industry needs 198k per year

– US universities produce only 35k (1/6th)

USA35%

EUROPE29%

JAPAN15%

REST OF WORLD

21%

IT&T Trends and Needs• Teledensity

(telephone lines per 100 inhabitants)– Industrialized nations is over 48– Middle-income nations around 10– Least advanced countries is about 1.5– World average is 11.5

• Informatics gap

(PC ratio per 100 inhabitants)– Industrialized nations is over 18– Middle-income nations around 2.3– Least advanced countries is about 0.01

IT&TMARKET SHARE

IT&T Trends and Needs

• Web based training

– 1997: $197 million

– 2002: $6 billion

• Brazil and Costa Rica are the only countries in Latin America with greater than 1% investment of GDP in R & D.

– Japan 2.7%

– Germany 2.4%

– United States 2.0%

– Brazil 1.3 %

– Russia Less than 0.5%

New Reality

The most profitable product for the future is:

– INFORMATION + MANIPULATION OF IT = TELECOMMUNICATION + COMPUTATION

– Large competitive pressures on non-information

related industries.

– Increase world dependence on information

products.

What works in regional cooperation and networks ?

* Integrate Library initiatives into larger regional projects

* Regional projects succeed if they:

- show economic/industrial benefits

- meet unmet needs

- serve under-served peoples and regions

- educate and train

- involve IT (information technology) at a basic level

* Start with a few high-profile organizations

VALUED CHARACTERISTICS IN CONSORTIAL MEMBERS

Letting go. Try to prepare yourself for the dismantling of long held beliefs and cherished protocols and procedures.Learn from the experience, without feeling persecuted.Learn to manage your anxietyImprovise. Change is generally without precedent, thus we must, at all times, be prepared to improvise. Accept ambiguity and uncertainty, and the lack of closure.Curiosity. Be curious about, rather than fearful of, the unknown.Pool your potential. We need to pool everyone's ideas, insights, knowledge, and experience to find creative solutions and fresh approaches.

Relationships is everything!

Advice from a slow learner

- "Behave as if you are in business for yourself *, and/or act as if you own the organization. - Do not depend on your past contributions - only the value you are currently adding, really counts. - Be a problem solver where others point fingers. - Learn to make decisions when you don't have the complete information. - Make decisions about customer service on the spot - even if you do not have the authority. - Be a risk taker. "Learn to fail fast, fix it, and race on." * - Surrender control and welcome the unexpected.

* (Pritchett, 1996)

HELPFUL PERSONAL BEHAVIORS BACK AT WORK

Contact Information

• ISTEC• www.istec.org

• ALLIANCE

• http://lib-www.lanl.gov/alliance/lsanm.htm

Library Linkages (LibLink)

Information Technology&

TelecommunicationsAdvanced Continuing

Education (ACE)Los Libertadores

R&D Laboratories (R&D)•

The ISTEC Network - Initiatives

HOW FAR FROM CERTAINTY ARE WE WHEN WE HAVE TO ACT ? HOW FAR FROM AGREEMENT ARE WE ?

FAR FROM AGREEMENT

C R E A T I V I T Y S P A C E :

WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE ARE DOING INTUITION. TRUST. MUDDLING THROUGH JUDGEMENT

A N A R C H Y : DISINTEGRATION UTTER CONFUSION TRUE CHAOS

RATIONAL PLANNING. CONTROL

IDEOLOGY VISIONS MISSIONS CLOSE TO AGREEMENT

CLOSE TO CERTAINTY FAR FROM CERTAINTY

Adapted from: Ralph Stacey. "How can complexity theory help us navigate the future? - A dynamic perspective." Lecture. Skandia Future Centers, 27-28 January, 1997. http://www.skandia.se/koncern_intellektuell/navigate_the_future.htm

Sociopolitical

Information Technology&

Telecommunications

LegislativeRegulatoryTechnological

Business Factors

21st Century Network