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Natural selection in Libraryland
– the changing landscape of the
University Library
North South Conference
Belfast
20 April 2012
The research library
Vanishing into oblivion...or soaring to new heights?
In other wordsWe fly...or we die!
Feed me now!
Survival in Libraryland depends on effective knowledge transfer...right stuff, in time, on demand
ever more personalised services
RLUK Strategic Plan
• Redefining the research library model• Collaborating to reduce costs and improve quality• Shaping ethical and effective publishing• Promoting unique and distinctive collections• Modelling the library role in research data
management
http://www.rluk.ac.uk/
Redefining the research library model
• Physical collections are shrinking• Library as publisher• Manipulation of information resources
Collaborating to reduce costs and improve quality
• United Kingdom Research Reserve (UKRR)http://www.ukrr.ac.uk/
• Shared cataloguing (yet again!)
Shaping ethical and effective publishing
• Scholarly communications are changing
• Journal costs spiralling
• Monographs at risk
• But new publishing models emerging
Promoting unique and distinctive collections
• Collaborative digitisation
• Resource discovery
• Promoting access
The library’s role in research data management
• Uniquely complex network of metadata• Institutional, national and international initiatives
The future
• Today’s research library model is obsolescentbut
• The research library of tomorrow can and will
support evolving models of
scholarly communications