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Envisioning a New Case: From Inspiration to Presentation to Preservation

April 1, 2005

Joanne Eustis
University Librarian
Case Western Reserve University

Wendy Shapiro
Director Instructional Technology and Academic Computing
Case Western Reserve University

“Systemic change recognizes that a fundamental change in one aspect of a system requires fundamental changes in other aspects in order for it to be successful.” (Reigeluth, Garfinkle 1994).

Case Western Reserve’s Kelvin Smith Library is a partner with the University’s College of Arts and Sciences, Information Technology Services’ Instructional Technology and Academic Computing (ITAC), and the University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE). The partners are taking a systems approach to building a facility (the Samuel B. and Marian K. Freedman Digital Library, Language Learning, and Multimedia Services Center) that nurtures the creation of new knowledge through the use of emerging digital technologies. To realize the vision of transformative learning consonant with a new university President’s aspiration Envisioning a New Case, the Freedman Center will create a learning environment in which students and faculty are able to design and integrate technology-rich educational materials, successfully merging traditional formats with new media and new technologies. Simply put, with appropriate expertise culled from the Library, the College of Arts and Sciences, ITAC, and UCITE, the Center is designed as a space with resources for students and faculty who wish to complete projects from start to finish (and if appropriate submit them for preservation purposes to Digital Case, the University’s institutional repository): from resource gathering through the end product: “from inspiration to presentation [to preservation].”

Handout (PowerPoint Slides)

PowerPoint Presentation

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2005 Project Briefings, Learning Spaces (includes Information/Learning Commons), Teaching & Learning, User Services
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The Global Reach of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

April 1, 2005

Edward Fox
Professor
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Joan K. Lippincott
Associate Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)

Eva Muller
Director, Electronic Publishing Centre
Uppsala University

Susan Copeland
Senior Librarian
Robert Gordon University

Universities are increasingly understanding the value of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) as institutional assets and they are working to encourage submission of ETDs and development of access and storage mechanisms that encourage their broad availability. In this session, four board members of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) initiative, will provide an update on trends and projects related to ETDs. These will include incorporating ETDs into institutional repositories, availability of new ETD tutorials, a consortial project in the UK that is developing a national infrastructure for e-theses, and national theses portals in the Scandinavian countries.

http://www.ndltd.org
http://uppsok.libris.kb.se/sru/uppsok
http://www.diva-portal.org/index.xsql?lang=en

PowerPoint Presentations:
The Global Reach of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (Fox)
Electronic Theses: Developments in the UK (Copeland)
Current state of activities and trends in the ETD’s development in Scandinavia (Muller)

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2005 Project Briefings, Electronic Theses & Dissertations (ETDs)
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The Government Printing Office’s (GPO) Roadmap to the Future: Planning a World Class System for Managing Official U.S. Government Content

April 1, 2005

Michael Wash
Chief Technical Officer
United States Government Printing Office

George Barnum
Metadata Analyst
United States Government Printing Office

The Government Printing Office is in the third phase of a planning process to develop a comprehensive system for information lifecycle management which will transform GPO’s role and practices. This Future Digital System is being planned based on the OAIS reference model, to be policy-driven and highly responsive to the needs of all classes of users, for content creation, management, and information seeking. The system will assist in content creation, verify and track versions, track and certify authenticity, preserve content, and provide permanent public access. The presentation will describe the planning process, with specific reference to the Concept of Operations published in October, 2004, and the completion of high-level requirements in Spring, 2005.

Web Links:
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/tools/Conops_Summary.pdf

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2005 Project Briefings, Digital Preservation
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Grey Literature in Scholarly Communication: Current Thinking from Libraries and Publishers

April 1, 2005

James Neal
Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian
Columbia University

Kate Wittenberg
Director, Electronic Publishing Initiative
Columbia University

Grey literature has often been seen as peripheral to libraries, but in the digital age, it is becoming increasingly important to scholarship. The role of grey literature in scholarly communication has taken on new significance in recent years for a variety of reasons. In many fields, this form of communication often represents scholarship at its earliest stage, before it has been formally peer-reviewed, published, and/or placed under copyright. What is the role and importance of grey literature for scholarly publishers, libraries creating institutional repositories, and scholars thinking about how to disseminate their newest work, and what models have been developed (discipline-based electronic resources, institutional repositories, for example) and should be created in the future for the dissemination of this genre of scholarly material? What issues are raised with grey literature regarding questions of open access, library/publisher collaboration, and the development of editorial and technology infrastructure to enhance its usefulness through new forms of peer review, functionality, and user interface? Do these trends present an opportunity for a refreshed recognition, a redefinition, a renaissance in the nature, role and impact of grey literature? Do these developments offer opportunities for new collaborations among scholars, publishers and librarians to create innovative models of scholarly, educational and cultural communication? In this discussion we will explore these questions from the perspective of a librarian and publisher and will propose some new models for the future of this form of scholarship.

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2005 Project Briefings, Repositories, Scholarly Communication
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How Do Users Search? Examining User Behavior and Testing Innovative Possibilities Within the CREE Project

April 1, 2005

Christopher Awre
Integration Architect
University of Hull

The Contextual Resource Evaluation Environment (CREE) project, funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), is exploring how users wish to make use of Internet and library-based search tools within a variety of environments. The University of Hull is working with the Universities of Oxford, Edinburgh and York, as well as Newark & Sherwood College and instructional media + magic inc. in Washington DC, to examine how search tools can be presented to the user in different contexts, offering search functionality in relation to learning, teaching and research activities.

The project is approaching this work through two tracks of activity:

• User requirements assessment
• Technical development

The user requirements assessment has so far involved a national UK survey, which received over 4000 responses, and a series of focus groups. These set out to examine what search tools are used within universities and colleges, and how users would like to use these tools. They have provided a body of knowledge on how users within post-16 education, both staff and students, currently make use of search tools ranging from Google through to specific subject-based resources. This knowledge offers valuable evidence to librarians and system developers on how such tools should be presented to users. Within CREE, the results from this work are informing the development of a series of interactive demonstrators that will be used to test user reaction to the presentation of search tools within different environments and contexts, including regular webpages, a course management system and an institutional portal. To support the latter, the technical development strand of the project is investigating the use of the JSR 168 and WSRP portlet standards to enable existing search tools to be surfaced within these environments and their functionality made available within these. The search tools, covering access to library catalogs, bibliographic databases and subject-specific resources, have previously been developed within JISC-funded projects. Google is also being presented within a portlet in order to compare usage and gain feedback on the association of this with more specific search tools.

The project hopes to establish how users wish to use search tools in different environments for their learning, teaching and research, in order to inform system developers within institutions. Technically, the experience of using the portlet standards to adapt existing search tools will also be shared to facilitate this activity elsewhere. In both cases, dissemination of the project outputs and learning is a key element of the project’s success. This presentation will report the findings of the user evaluation carried out to date and show how the technical development work is enabling interactive user testing and consideration of the long-term use of portlet standards for the presentation of search services.

http://www.hull.ac.uk/esig/cree

Presentation (PDF)

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2005 Project Briefings, Information Access & Retrieval, Teaching & Learning
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The Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS): 2005 Update

April 1, 2005

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

Martha Crawley
Senior Program Officer
Institute of Museum and Library Services

Barbara G. Smith
Technology Officer
Institute of Museum and Library Services

Dan Lukash
Senior Program Officer
Institute of Museum and Library Services

Marsha Semmel
Director for Strategic Partnerships
Institute of Museum and Library Services

This session will provide an update on IMLS, with an emphasis on National Leadership Grant 2004 award highlights; the IMLS Digital Collections Registry; WebWise 2005; new program initiatives; strategic partnerships; and the second IMLS survey on the Status of Technology and Digitization in the Nation’s Museums and Libraries.

http://imls.gov

PowerPoint Presentation

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2005 Project Briefings, Digital Libraries
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Implementing Permanence Levels and Creating the Archive for the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) Permanent Web Documents

April 1, 2005

Margaret M. Byrnes
Head, Preservation and Collection Management Section
National Library of Medicine

NLM reported at the Spring 2001 CNI Task Force Meeting on the permanence levels it has developed to communicate to users which of its Web resources will be kept available permanently. Since that time, NLM has implemented the system and created an archive for resources that are outdated or superseded but of permanent value. The archive is a separate but integral part of NLM’s main Web site. This presentation will describe the system in place for assigning permanence levels, the structure of the archive, the archiving process, and features developed for navigating within the archive and between the archive and the current site.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/psd/pcm/devpermanence.html

PowerPoint Presentation

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2005 Project Briefings, Digital Preservation
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Integrating Libraries and Electronic Publishing: The DART Project

April 1, 2005

David Millman
Director, Research and Development, Academic Information Systems
Columbia University

Kate Wittenberg
Director, Electronic Publishing Initiative
Columbia University

The Digital Anthropology Resources for Teaching (DART) project integrates the content acquisition and standardized cataloguing initiatives of a federated digital repository with the development of scholarly publications and the creation of digital tools to facilitate classroom teaching. A product of EPIC (Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia), DART is being developed as an integration of the traditional perspectives and roles of the library and scholarly publisher.

In our briefing, we will discuss the DART project’s editorial and educational strategies, as well as its technical architecture, including its integrated implementation of repository and electronic publishing initiatives. We will then discuss some of the issues raised by our approach, including metadata, detailed object referral, rights management, and services to external systems. We will conclude with some comments about plans for future work, specifically with regard to faculty and student needs in this field and our evaluation of their use of the project.

Web Links:
http://www.columbia.edu/dlc/dart/

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2005 Project Briefings, Digital Libraries, Metadata, Publishing
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The Knowledge Exchange: A Major New European Cooperative Project

April 1, 2005

Bas Cordewener
Platform Manager IT & ED
SURF Foundation

Sigrun Eckelmann
Program Director, Academic Libraries and Information Systems
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

Norman Wiseman
Head of Outreach and Institutional Support
Joint Information Systems Committee

Four organizations that act in a national capacity to drive forward developments in digital libraries have agreed to cooperate and create a new, jointly owned organization that will lead European activities to support education and research. The sponsoring organizations are Denmark’s Electronic Research Library (DEF), the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), JISC and SURF. A central office will be created in Copenhagen and each sponsor will employ a local representative to be the main point of contact and conduit for information on national activities.

The Knowledge Exchange is intended to add genuine value to the activities currently undertaken by the sponsors and increase return on investment in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) infrastructure, services and projects. It will thus improve the quality of learning, teaching and research by:

• Ensuring that national strategies and plans are better informed by and about developments in partner nations and are therefore more effective and realistic;
• Ensuring that current approaches and outputs (developed by any one of the partners) can be built on incrementally to benefit all and that risks can be shared as appropriate;
• Reducing redundancy of effort in funding research and development activity and improve return on these investments for all partners;
• Raising the profile of national and European research and development activity through providing new and high profile avenues to exploit and disseminate achievements;
• Working together where appropriate to develop and implement common standards for interoperability of learning and research information with a view to a more common European information environment;
• Developing a better understanding and appreciation of the differences in our national cultures and in particular to learn from different approaches to ICT provision.

The briefing will describe the objectives of the new organization, the main areas for collaboration between the partners and the ambitious work plans for the first five years. Each of the partners will also describe their own ambitions and goals for the service and the benefits it will bring to their national agenda.

Presentation:
PowerPoint Presentation (PPT)

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2005 Project Briefings, Digital Libraries, Teaching & Learning
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LibQUAL™, Libraries and Google™: What Do We Know About the Use Patterns Of Our Faculty, Graduate Students and Undergraduates?

April 1, 2005

Martha Kyrillidou
Program Officer for Statistics and Measurement
Association of Research Libraries (ARL)

Jonathan D. Sousa
Technical Applications Development Manager
Association of Research Libraries (ARL)

Fred M. Heath
Vice Provost and Director of Libraries
University of Texas at Austin

The LibQUAL+™ protocol includes three questions regarding use of information resources: (a) how often do you use resources on library premises? (b) How often do you access library resources through a library Web page? and (c) How often do you use Yahoo™, Google™, or non-library gateways for information? This session will involve discussing the findings from the ‘use’ questions we have in the LibQUAL+™ survey and attempt to understand what these findings mean for libraries. More than 200,000 users from hundreds of institutions responded to the LibQUAL+™ survey in 2003 and 2004 and the trends for these questions are revealing.

ARL Statistics have documented declining circulation, reference and inhouse use figures. The updated series comparing university and library expenditures also shows shrinking library budgets (http://www.arl.org/stats/eg/chart17.pdf and http://www.arl.org/stats/eg/chart40.pdf). Yet libraries are doing more in the digital area as we are capturing data with some of our new measures. Can we mainstream our new measures fast enough to demonstrate the vitality of the services libraries provide? What does LibQUAL+™ tell us as to how often faculty, graduate students and undergraduates use non-library gateways over time? How should we evaluate these trends in the face of new developments like the availability of Google Scholar and other research library content becoming available through similar partnerships? The discussion for the session will focus on the interpretation of the LibQUAL+™ trends and how libraries can manage user expectations in the Google™ era.

Web Links:
http://www.libqual.org

http://www.arl.org/stats/

Filed Under: Assessment, CNI Spring 2005 Project Briefings, Digital Libraries
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