Rethinking Resource Sharing

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Rethinking Resource Sharing

• Why What -- How
• 10th ILDS Conference
• Oct. 31, 2007
• Anne K Beaubien
• Pat Stevens

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Topics

• Goals of the initiative
• Why Rethink?
• Key Projects
• Joining in

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"I learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's
couplets Whatever you can do, or dream you
can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and
magic in it. Begin it now." W. H. Murray, The
Scottish Himalaya Expedition, 1951
The greatest genius will never be worth much if
he pretends to draw exclusively from his own
resources.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Goal New Global Service Framework

• Users can get what they find
• No matter where they find it
• Users choice of time, cost, format
• NOT the librarys

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Libraries Today

• Part of changing information ecology
• Change is discontinuous
• Change is constant
• New species emerging
• New relationships among species
• Adaptation required!

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What do we as librarians do?Bring reader to
author
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To start the circle again
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Digitally amplified and multiplied
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New rule Users in charge
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New rules

• Users are in charge
• We need to ask
• What can we do now?
• To be of service
• In helping find and use information
• Transform and create information
• Amplify and multiply contacts

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Some thoughts

• Collections largely irrelevant to users
• Can you get it for me when I need it?
• Can you help me with my problem?
• Same as it ever was
• Library staff are key resources
• Not collections
• Every time we help make a connection
• We grow the Library Brand

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Strategies for today

• Focus first on users
• Put services where users are
• Offer services from outside libraries
• Look outside libraries for useful models
• Use fees when necessary
• Measure and modify
• Remain vendor neutral
• Partners not adversaries

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By Sharing Users -- Libraries

• Can offer more than any single library
• More than any commercial service
• Collections and expertise together
• No library too small to share
• No library too large to gain

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Tactics to go with strategy

• Policy framework
• Taking services to users

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Manifesto for RethinkingTowards new polices

• Lower restrictions as far as possible
• Give users options
• Encourage global access to resources
• Include archives, museums, etc.
• Reference services are vital
• Offer service at a fair price
• Make registration easy

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Not Utopian Ideals

• Synthesizes new approaches
• Every policy in practice somewhere
• Digitization on demand
• Expanded circulation policies
• Fees for services

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Adoption

• Rethinking Resource Sharing
• Steering Committee
• ALA RUSA STARS
• Rethinking Resource Sharing Policies Committee
• Executive Committee
• IFLA Document Delivery and Resource Sharing
  Standing Committee
• Translated into French and Portuguese

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GoGetter

• Demonstrate taking service to users
• Firefox Plug-in Open Source Model
• Takes the user
• From an item on the web
• To multiple delivery options

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Targeted to task (Imagine)
Need Info For Business? For Fun?
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Other activities

• User needs
• Delivery
• Marketing

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Can we work together?

• Start something new
• Share your idea and results
• Talk to your colleagues
• Volunteer
• Start a local chapter

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Librarians! Throw off your policies Expose your
collections!
Pat Stevens bad paraphrase of Karl Marx
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From Rethinking to Redoing

• How can we help you?
• User needs?
• What surprises you?
• What support do you need?
• Taking service to users?
• GoGetter?
• What are you doing?
• How do we fund this?
• Do we have to pay for it ALL?

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Information and contacts

• http//www.rethinkingresourcesharing.org
• Anne Beaubien
• beaubien_at_umich.edu
• Pat Stevens
• pat_at_pws-services.org