Nation-scale services – and what has to be done

18th CASLIN SeminarHotel Santon, Brno, 12-15 June 2011Martin SvobodaNational Technical Librarymartin.svoboda@techlib.cz

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Synopsis

• History – a hindsight on projects

• Library roles– place of open doors and public services

– meeting place

– place of study and earnest work

– source of information

• The future– library as a publisher

– librarian as a supporter of publishing

• Big indexes

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Motto

Librarianship is no science but a service,

if there is any science in it, it is the science how to provide the service better

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History – a hindsight (1)210 mm

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STL Projects

1987 - Library barcodes

1997 – INVIK - A library on your

desk-top

1999 – Z39.50 Interest Group-CZ

1998 – Springer – nation-wide

license

1999 – Elsevier, Academic Press,

J.Wiley, ACSPrinciples:a) remote access, b) EDD sharing, c) permanent

access

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2000 – Virtual polytechnic Library

9 partner libraries,

union catalogue of periodicals,

safe document delivery

co-ordinated acquisition

2003 – accessibility of theseses

e-VŠKP, §47b

2003 – preparation for a new Information Infrastructure Grant Programme – co-ordination:

Elsevier 65, J.Wiley 34, Kluwer 35, Springer 55

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2005 – End of EAGLE/SIGLE

– proposal of GLUM

– birth of NUŠL

2008 – INFOZ – co-ordination:

Elsevier 60, J.Wiley 44, Springer 66, Scopus 32

2001 – disaster

Library roles

• place of open doors and public services– conference hall

– gallery

– municipal library branch

– university bookstore

– computer shop

• meeting place– caffe

– library itself

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Library roles

• place of study and earnest work

• source of information– open shelving effect

on „contextual search“

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Why all this?

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„Forecasting is always difficult,

in particular if it involves the future“

The future[s]

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• It is not content but context that will matter most a decade or

so from now. The scarce resource will not be stuff, but point of

view.

Paul Saffo, Wired, Issue 2.03, Mar 1994

• Users likely expect that if they can discover that something is

available, they should have access to it - a use pattern best

exemplified by google, but that I believe has transcended to

the library sphere as well.

Jeremy Frumkin, code4lib Wed, 1 Jun 2011

The future[s]

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• Library as a [digital] publisher• formats (iPad, iPhone, kindle, pdf,…

• print-on-demand

• ©, costing, sustainability

• Elsevier‘s The Article of the futurehttp://www.articleofthefuture.com/

• Librarian as a supporter of publishing• where, what, how

• how to „sell“ it at the best

• assessment, metrics

Big indexes

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• How many

Ex Libris‘ Primo central,

Serials Solutions‘ Summon,

EBSCO Discovery Services,

etc.

is needed for a country of 10 million people?

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Thank you for your attentionMartin Svobodamartin.svoboda@techlib.cz

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee

for Nobel prize !

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