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Georgia’s Five Little Acres: Integrating Library and Classroom Functions in the New Student Learning Center at the University of Georgia

April 3, 2004

William Gray Potter
University Librarian and Associate Provost
University of Georgia

The Student Learning Center at the University of Georgia blends general classrooms with a library facility to provide a new level of integration of these functions. Within its 236,000 square feet, the building offers 2,200 seats in 26 general classrooms and 2,400 library seats. The library areas feature 500 workstations, a pervasive wireless network, 96 group study rooms, a traditional reading room, 4 instructional classrooms, soft seating, Moser furniture, and a coffee house. The blend of classroom and library functions has proven to be extremely popular with students since the building opened in August 2003. The building is operated as a partnership of the library, computing services, and instructional services.

This briefing will describe the building and its context, explore how expectations have meshed with actual experience, discuss the success of the partnership, and list some lessons learned. It is hoped that the presentation will lead to a discussion of directions in building design for libraries, classrooms, computer labs, and related facilities.

Web Link:
http://www.slc.uga.edu

Handout:
The Library as Place: The Student Learning Center at the University of Georgia

Presentation:
The Student Learning Center (PPT)

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2004 Project Briefings, Learning Spaces (includes Information/Learning Commons)
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IMLS Update: New Initiatives, Trends in Grant Programs

April 3, 2004

Martha Crawley
Senior Program Officer
Institute of Museum and Library Services

Joyce Ray
Director, Office of Library Services
Institute of Museum and Library Services

Robert Trio
Program Officer, Office of Museum Services
Institute of Museum and Library Services

This session will provide an update on IMLS, with an emphasis on National Leadership Grant 2003 award highlights; grant program changes for 2005; the IMLS Digital Collections and Content project at UIUC; the Librarians for the 21st Century program and a special Request For Proposals; and strategic partnerships.

Web Link:
http://www.imls.gov

Handout:
Institute of Museum and Library Services Update

Presentation:
IMLS Update (PPT)

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2004 Project Briefings, Economic Models
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Implications of Capture and Preservation of Scholarly and Administrative Information: The Need for Collaborative Enterprise Policy Development

April 3, 2004

Richard Fyffe
Assistant Dean of Libraries for Scholarly Communication
University of Kansas

Deborah Ludwig
Director, Information Systems
University of Kansas

Beth Warner
Assistant Vice Provost for Information Services
University of Kansas

Marilu Goodyear
Vice Provost for Information Services
University of Kansas

As new tools are introduced across the institution to facilitate scholarly research, teaching and administrative functions, it is vital that enterprise-wide policies and processes be developed to govern and facilitate their use. Policy development should occur through collaboration between information professionals and the faculty and staff whose scholarly and administrative output and practices must be accommodated. At the University of Kansas, two major efforts are underway to explore the policy and process issues involved in the capture and preservation of institutional scholarly and administrative information. As part of KU’s institutional repository program, KU ScholarWorks (https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu), we have developed an analytic framework of policy issues along with possible responses, and are presenting this framework to groups of early adopters and other informed faculty. Preliminary results from early interviews and reflections on the strengths and limitations of this approach for long-term policy development will be presented. In a related effort, the Digital Preservation Task Force is exploring the implications of a University-level commitment to the preservation of digital resources, both administrative and academic, along with the information services infrastructure (organizational, technical, policy, financial) suitable for carrying forward this enterprise-wide commitment. Results to date, focusing on research on and synthesis of current “best practice”; creating a prototype for a university-wide inventory of digital assets or asset-types; and educating / communicating with academic and administrative stakeholders will be discussed.


Web Link:
https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu

Handouts:
University of Kansas, Digital Preservation Task Force
KU ScholarWorks

Presentation:
Implications of Capture and Preservation (PDF)

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2004 Project Briefings, Digital Preservation, Repositories
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Innovation Lab

April 3, 2004

Geoffrey Adams
Director, IT Solutions
Elsevier

David Marques
Chief Technology Officer
Elsevier

To help innovate and test new ideas Elsevier has created a site: http://labs.elsevier.com. This houses prototypes of new ideas from both Elsevier and our partners in which the focus is on added end-user value. These ideas may be related to technology, interfaces, or new products. Ten prototype applications are already loaded and running, and customers and potential customers are being invited to “test drive” evaluate, and help refine them. These prototypes are sufficiently scaled to provide real value to end users and will be loosely coupled to at least one product to provide context for use. This briefing will describe and demonstrate some of the prototypes in the lab.

Presentation
Use-Centered Content (HTML)

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2004 Project Briefings
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Integration of Data Grids, Digital Libraries, and Persistent Archives

April 3, 2004

Reagan Moore
Associate Director
San Diego Supercomputer Center

The Storage Resource Broker (SRB) provides the fundamental data management mechanisms that are required by data grids, digital libraries, and persistent archives. The SRB is in widespread production use on both national and international projects funded by NSF, NASA, DOE, NIH, and NARA.

This briefing will look at the common infrastructure requirements across these projects, discuss specific applications, and present areas where future technology evolution is still needed. We will also compare the evolution of grid technology architecture with the architectures required by data management systems, and show how the technologies can converge.

Web Link:
http://www.npaci.edu/DICE/SRB

Presentation:
Integration of Data Grids, Digital Libraries, and Persistent Archives (PPT)

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2004 Project Briefings, Cyberinfrastructure, Digital Libraries
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Ithaka: An Introduction

April 3, 2004

Kevin Guthrie
Chairman
Ithaka

With the support of the Hewlett, Mellon, and Niarchos foundations, a new organization called Ithaka is being launched with a mission to help accelerate the adoption of productive and efficient uses of information technology for the benefit of the worldwide higher education community. Naturally, like all such statements, the above mission is both broad and ambitious. At a more practical level Ithaka is focusing its initial efforts on three interconnected activities: (1) incubating promising and important projects and new ideas; (2) supporting affiliated organizations through sharing of resources; and (3) conducting research on the impact of technologies on the scholarly community. In the future Ithaka may provide a mechanism for sharing its experience with projects not directly affiliated with it, perhaps through some form of advisory services, if there proves to be demand for that in the community. Overall, Ithaka aims to contribute to the sustainability, efficiency, and effectiveness of not-for-profit enterprises that are using new technologies in ways that benefit higher education. In addition to providing an overview of the organization’s mission and purpose, the speaker will describe some of Ithaka’s initial experiences.

Presentation:
Ithaka: An Introduction (PPT)

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2004 Project Briefings
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JISC and SURF: An Update on Activities

April 3, 2004

Malcolm Read
JISC Executive Secretary
Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)

Wim Liebrand
Director
SURF Foundation

This joint briefing on the current strategic directions of SURF and JISC will provide an overview of the current activities in the two organizations including: information management and scholarly publishing; projects such as DARE and SuperJANET5; the UK and NL contributions to GLIF; learning object repositories; and plans to join information management across e-learning, e-research, e-business and digital libraries.

http://www.jisc.ac.uk
http://www.surf.nl/en/home/

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2004 Project Briefings, Digital Libraries, Publishing
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LionShare: Connecting and Extending P2P networks

April 3, 2004

Michael J. Halm
Senior Strategist
Pennslvania State University

LionShare is an innovative P2P technology that merges file exchange, file organization, and collaborative tools into one application for the primary purpose of secure file-sharing and collaboration within educational communities. LionShare users from around the world will be able to access files from a multitude of sources
including small private collections, international repositories, video and image archives, and other “hidden” Internet resources. LionShare also promises stable, reliable, and secure exchange of information in an authenticated and federated environment. This session will provide an update on the LionShare project and discuss future directions.

Web Links:
http://lionshare.its.psu.edu

Presentation:
LionShare (PDF)

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2004 Project Briefings, Repositories
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Making Sense of Usage Statistics for Online Databases: Challenges, Lessons, and Strategies in a Statewide Context

April 3, 2004

Charles R. McClure
Francis Eppes Professor and Director, Information Institute
Florida State University

William Moen
Associate Professor
University of North Texas

John Bertot
Associate Professor
Florida State University

A number of states have a statewide online portal or metasearch applications that provide access to a range of licensed databases and distributed resources. Agencies that operate such services confront a range of issues in compiling comprehensive use statistics of these databases because the various database vendors frequently provide non-compatible and/or non-comparable usage statistics. Nonetheless, it is essential to have comprehensive statewide use statistics to better understand user engagement with the databases, to justify to governing bodies the value and impact of the databases, and to determine which databases and services are most used, by whom, and for what amount of time (among other indicators).

This briefing provides a summary of a project recently completed for the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) and other work in progress by the authors. These efforts have identified specific approaches and tools to develop a comprehensive statewide approach to collecting, normalizing, and reporting such statistics in a meaningful manner. The presenters will summarize project findings, describe lessons learned to date, and outline future research efforts. Presenters will also discuss recent efforts to develop definitional, reporting, and performance indicator standards regarding online database resources and services.

Web Links:
http://www.txcdk.org/about_us.php

Presentation:
Making Sense of Usage Statistics for
Online Databases

Filed Under: Assessment, CNI Spring 2004 Project Briefings, E-Books, E-Journals
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Mixed Content and Mixed Metadata in the NSDL

April 3, 2004

William Y. Arms
Professor, Computer Science
Cornell University

The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) is notable for the extreme variety of its content and the range of metadata, from excellent to negligible. As part of their work for the NSDL Core Integration, researchers at Cornell are developing methods for building digital library services with mixed metadata and content. This briefing will emphasize recent developments in information discovery that apply to highly heterogenous collections.

Web Link:
http://www.infosci.cornell.edu/dl/core-integration.html

Handout:
Information Discovery in the National Science Digital Library

Presentation:
Mixed Content, Mixed Metadata (PPT)

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2004 Project Briefings, Digital Libraries, Metadata
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