Dealing with the Stuff: the Hybrid Library View

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Dealing with the Stuffthe Hybrid Library View

• Stephen Pinfield
• University of Birmingham

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King Saul

• Therefore they enquired of the Lord further, if
  the man should yet come thither. And the Lord
  answered, Behold, he hath hid himself among the
  stuff.
• (1 Samuel 1022 AV)

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Dealing with the Stuffthe Users View
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Defining the hybrid library
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The Hybrid Library should be...

• ...designed to bring a range of technologies
  from different sources together in the context of
  a working library, and also to begin to explore
  integrated systems and services in both the
  electronic and print environments.
• Chris Rusbridge D-Lib July/August 1998

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Hybrid Library

• The hybrid library as process
• integration of the stuff
• seamlessness...

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The Stuff a random list

• Type
• Abstracts and Indexes
• Catalogues
• Union catalogues
• Reference sources
• Serials
• Monographs
• etc., etc.

• Formats
• Databases
• CD-ROMs
• Web sites
• Paper
• Microform
• Cassette
• etc., etc.

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Hybrid Library development

• Not just
• Integration of electronic sources
• Software product
• Show us yer hybrid library!
• Hybrid library projects building models,
  creating exemplars of and developing specific
  products for the hybrid library

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Hybrids
http//www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/projects/
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HyLiFe

• Hybrid Library of the Future
• Lead sites CERLIM at Manchester MU University
  of Northumbria at Newcastle
• Plus other consortium partners
• User and evaluation focus - development of 6
  hybrid library interfaces for different user
  groups in different institutions
• http//www.unn.ac.uk/xcu2/hylife

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MALIBU

• MAnaging the hybrid LIbrary for the Benefit of
  Users
• Lead site Kings College London, Oxford and
  Southampton Universities
• Plus other consortium members / partners
• Humanities focus - developing hybrid library
  prototypes for the humanities. Organisation and
  Management focus - development of models
• http//www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/malibu

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HeadLine

• Hybrid Electronic Access and Delivery in the
  Library Networked Environment
• Lead site London School of Economics
• Plus other consortium partners
• Economics and business focus - creating hybrid
  library environment for wide range of different
  resources
• http//www.headline.ac.uk

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BUILDER

• Birmingham University Integrated Library
  Development and Electronic Resource
• Lead site University of Birmingham
• Plus a number of partners
• Institutional focus - developing a model of the
  hybrid library within an institution
• http//builder.bham.ac.uk

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Agora

• Lead site University of East Anglia
• Plus other partners
• Infrastructural focus - development of a Hybrid
  Library Management System - implementation of the
  MODELS Information Architecture
• http//hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/agora

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Hybrid Library Themes

• Interconnectivity and interoperability
• Authentication and authorisation
• Personalisation of the Information Landscape
• Cultural and organisational issues
• Links with other eLib Phase 3 strands Z39.50,
  digital preservation

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Hybrid Library Themes

• Interconnectivity and interoperability

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API Application Programming Interface

• a set of functions and procedures, and enables
  a program to gain access to facilities within an
  application This enables users to customize
  the application for their own purposes and to
  integrate the application into a customized
  development environment.
• Valerie Illingworth (ed.) Dictionary of
  Computing 4th ed. Oxford OUP, 1996.

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Hybrid Library Themes

• Interconnectivity and interoperability
• Authentication and authorisation

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Authentication

• Authentication
• they are who they say there are
• Authorisation
• they can use x but not y
• Local systems
• Other systems
• suppliers
• national
• international

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Hybrid Library Themes

• Interconnectivity and interoperability
• Authentication and authorisation
• Personalisation of the Information Landscape

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Personalisation

• Metadata management
• broad view of metadata - data about data -
  records created / managed by library describing
  the stuff
• Integration of metadata
• metadata indexes, OPAC, interoperability with
  other metadata databases
• Matching metadata with user data
• a view of the stuff which is more relevant

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Hybrid Library Themes

• Interconnectivity and interoperability
• Authentication and authorisation
• Personalisation of the Information Landscape
• Cultural and organisational issues

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Partnerships

• Within the academic institution
• Library and computing service
• Library, computing service and registry
• and academic departments
• Outside the institution
• Other HE institutions and libraries
• Other non-HE libraries
• Data providers, system suppliers and publishers

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(Hybrid) Library and the Stuff

• Acquisition
• Preservation
• Access
• Sir Anthony Kenny Foreword in Towards the
  digital library Leona Carpenter, Simon Shaw and
  Andrew Prescott (eds). London British Library,
  1998, pp. 5-9.

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And King Saul...?

• Full of good intentions
• but...
• Could not work out what was expected of him
• Became mentally unstable
• Died trying to fight-off an invasion by the
  Philistines

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http//builder.bham.ac.uk