UCL LIBRARY SERVICES What does a 21st-century library service look and feel like? Dr Paul Ayris...
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UCL LIBRARY SERVICES
What does a 21st-century library service look and feel like?
Dr Paul AyrisDirector of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright Officer
e-mail: [email protected]
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UCL LIBRARY SERVICES
What the Library Strategy tells us…
Master Planning exercise its role in shaping the future of the Library's estate
UCL Institute for Cultural Heritage the importance of UCL Special Collections
Radio-Frequency Tagging the Self-Service Library
Role of the Library as archive Digital revolutions in research, learning and teaching Continuous Professional Development
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Master Planning exercise (1)
UCL has commissioned Building Design Partnership (BDP) to undertake an options appraisal For the complete refurbishment/extension of the UCL Main and Science
Libraries UCL Main Library
French Corridor becomes part of the library footprint? JBR/Old Refectory/new underground service facility (with a Louvre-style
pyramid in the Old Quad) provides 200 IT user places for the Library? We take down all dividing walls and floors in the Wilkins footprint and re-
think the volume of spaceAdding more space for collections, users and services
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Master Planning exercise (2)
UCL Science Library What will a Science Library look like in 10 years time? Growing emphasis on the Library as a learning space, rather than
simply a collections space What will the role of IT be? What new services are required, which the Library does not
currently provide?
Is the best solution to knock down the two existing buildings and to start again?
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UCL Institute for Cultural Heritage
The creation of the Institute is of paramount importance
Gould’s Toucans
Earliest photograph of University College London
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Haggadah for Passover: Sephardic tradition. Mocatta gift
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Self-Service Library
Libraries are no longer collections-centric spaces but user-centric spaces
RFID – Radio Frequency Tagging – is a strategic priority Revolutionize the way users user library spaces by allowing self-
issue Will be rolled out across the whole UCL family of libraries? Will enable us to undertake stock taking of the paper collections
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Role of the Library as archive
Two dimensions Paper and digital
Digital - DigiTool, our new digital asset management tool, will provide: Access system for all the Library’s in-house digital offerings Long-term digital archive for the Library’s locally-produced content
Paper - Library acquires 1 mile of paper material a year Needs to be curated at the Wickford Store Relationships with national archiving initiative – National Research
Reserve – need to be investigated Is one copy in Boston Spa enough?
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Digital revolutions
Digital revolutions have transformed teaching, learning and research Core Readings service, based on Reading Lists, should become THE norm for UCL Will multiple copies of textbooks will disappear?
For research E-only delivery should be the norm Paper journals for research are on the way out; 40% of UCL’s journals are e-only Library will store research outputs in the EPrints repository at http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/ E-Theses get fantastic downloads, 100+ per month Creates a new picture of young and thrusting UCL research
Through UCL Library Services’ custodianship All this digital material will be curated for the long term At a time when the average life of a web page is 30 days
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Continuous Professional Development
What is the role of a librarian? To be a manager of staff, resources and processes To select resources which academics/students need to function To serve students/academics in their information needs To guide and train academics/students in the use of resources To promote Information Literacy Skills to the whole of UCL To manage the archive, both paper and digital, for content which
academics and students need to function effectively
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And finally
If you have been, thanks for listening
Happy to answer questions and hear comments
