Loosely Joined. Library and Publisher networks for the digital era.

Paul CoyneTechnical Systems Director

Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation

MENA-IUG 2013Doha, Qatar

It is VERY important you remember ONE thing about this talk.

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Oh, and this, which is the next half hour summed up:

In the digital, mobile and networked age we serve our respective communities better when we decide to build Open, Networked Services together.

The size of the library collection will double

every 16 years.

In reality it’s doubled about every 20...

ACLS, 1967, ix

Cutting edge technology or blunt instrument?

“Vague but exciting”

1993 ARL calls on libraries to cancel subscriptions to Springer journals

Stam, 1992

1977 CAUL calls on libraries to cancel subscriptions Elsevier journals

2012 Cost of Knowledge calls on libraries to cancel subscriptions Elsevier journals

Librarians are a group of talented professionals fiercely dedicated to the notion that the effective exchange of

information among people is absolutely essential to the welfare and well-being of

modern civil society. They believe that market forces create

barriers to achieving that end.

Publishers are a group of talented professionals fiercely dedicated to the notion that the effective exchange of

information among people is absolutely essential to the welfare and well-being of

modern civil society. They believe that market forces are the

means to achieving that end.

Together, we can do amazing things

What else can we do?

There is much work to do

Where’s the smoking gun?

We are a privilegedgeneration.

In your lifetime you will define how digital, mobile and networked services in the library (and in publishing) will evolve for the decades to come.