Challenges and Opportunities for Academic Libraries Collaborative Imperatives

Challenges and Opportunities for Academic Libraries Collaborative Imperatives to Support Collections, Digital Initiatives, and New Services for a Changing Academic Environment

Four Pillars of Library Work • • Curation / Collection Building Publishing / Dissemination Engagement with research and learning Creating and managing spaces devoted to users and collections

Collaboration Axis Research & Learning Curation Spaces Publishing Shared Contextspecific Network Local Courtesy: John Wilkin, Dean University of Illinois Library

Trend 1: Collaborative Collection and Curation Challenges: • Library funding is decreasing as proportion of university budget • Collections funding is flat – we are just keeping-up with inflation • Electronic resources take up increasing proportion of budget Solutions: Networked approach to collection development, digitization, and even technical services spread costs for infrastructure and allow funds to be allocated toward user needs. 4

Declining share of resources

Serial Expenditures in ARL Libraries, 1986 -2009 Source: Kyrillido and Morris eds. (2011)

Digital Collections: Hathi. Trust Digital Library is a digital preservation repository and highly functional access platform. It provides long-term preservation and access services for public domain and in copyright content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives. http: //www. hathitrust. org/home Established in 2008 Currently Digitized 12, 667, 070 total volumes 6, 489, 942 book titles 330, 942 serial titles 4, 433, 474, 500 pages 568 terabytes 150 miles of shelving 10, 292 tons of books 4, 759, 432 volumes(~38% of total) in the public domain 7

Annual Operating Cost of Hathi Trust Year Operations 2009 $1, 932, 830 2010 $1, 364, 750 2011 $1, 969, 476 2012 $2, 034, 749 2013 $1, 724, 396

Cooperative Collections: • Shared Positions: – Cornell U. and Columbia: Slavic Studies; • Shared print repositories: – Print Journal backfiles among 15 universities 9

Trend 2: Data & Digital Scholarship LOD Cloud Diagram as of September 2011 CC BY-SA 10 3. 0 Anja Jentzsch

Data Services The National Science Foundation and its federal partners commit to the direction by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to develop policies in collaboration with all stakeholders to accomplish full public access on behalf of science and the future of the United States. Image Credit: Thinkstock http: //www. nsf. gov/news_summ. jsp? 11 cntn_id=127043

Data Services Impact on Academic Libraries • Open Data • Data Plan Management • “Big Data” Research Within Library and Information Science Education New programs focused on: • Data Mining • Data Curation 12

Digital Scholarship Spatial Humanities – Mapping, GIS, Humanities Scholars Visualization through topic modeling Textual Analysis – using large digitized collections to analyze impossibly large bodies of work. 13

Web Archiving – Environmental NGOs • • • Archive of web sites from NGOs around the world (currently over 100 sites) Focus on Sustainable Development Attempt to collect & preserve “grey literature” from local, noninternational, organizations Potential use for future scholars Could be preservation option for organizations Does not require organization’s scarce resources http: //webarchives. cdlib. org/a/World. Sustainability 14

Digital Acquisitions – “Catch and Release” • Fund onsite digitization within regions / countries • Make resources available in US without export of cultural heritage • Support new forms of digital research 15

Trend 3: New Service Models Creating new spaces and modes of engagement 16

International Reference Services Slavic Reference Service: • Established in 1976 • Funded by Library and grants from the US State Department. • Nearly 3, 000 reference questions per year to patrons around the world • Focus on reference / access through ILL and purchase International Reference: • Current strategic plan to expand on Slavic model • Hired International Reference Librarian in Summer 2014 • Working with librarians across the Library to integrate international into reference services / develop new service areas – Latin America etc… 17

Engagement / Outreach Reception for President of Bosnia and Herzegovina Music and Culture Lectures Workshops Film 18

Thank You Steve Witt Associate Professor Head, International and Area Studies Library University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign swwitt@illinois. edu 19