Plant Sciences Libraries 2'0

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Plant Sciences Libraries 2.0

• Roger Mills
  SLA Seattle 2008

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Plant Sciences Libraries 2.0

• Does it matter?

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Its an ALFIE question

• What's it all about, Alfie? Is it just for the
  moment we live? What's it all about when you
  sort it out, Alfie?

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Its an ALFIE library

• ALFIE
• A Library For Internet Explorers
• other browsers are available

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Its all online, stupid

• "As a national library, the print collection is
  core to researchers and the agricultural history
  of the nation. It is this reduction of 3,000,000
  for the print collections that is of immediate
  concern. In FY 2007, NAL document delivery
  services filled 29,000 requests from the NAL
  collection for materials which were available in
  print-only--not available electronically. In FY
  2009, such requests for print-only materials
  would not be filled. 
• From letter by the USAIN Executive Council on
  behalf of the U.S. agricultural information
  community to the Chairwoman, House Appropriations
  Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
  Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies
• http//www.usain.org/budget20proposal20de20laur
  o.pdf

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• http//www.3dnworld.com/users/1/images/UltimateEa
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This is a library

• http//www.3dnworld.com/users/1/images/UltimateEa
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What is a library?- an information
storetake-away- an information
systemeat-in

• http//www.3dnworld.com/users/1/images/UltimateEa
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All the worlds a library
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All the worlds a library

• And all the men and women merely librarians
• They have their exits and their entrances

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All the worlds a library

• In Dr Who spoilers
• The librarians daughter is dying he creates a
  virtual world for her and saves her and it on the
  librarys computer
• The library books contain spores from the forests
  the paper came from
• The spores germinate into flesh-eating shadows
• The shadows eat the librarians, but the computer
  saves them all to disk first
• By connecting herself to the computer, the
  doctors companion generates enough energy to
  recreate the saved librarians and dispel the
  shadows, but dies in the process
• But she has also been saved and is thus able to
  live on in virtual reality (heaven?)

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Thinking of putting your library on Second Life?

• Take care.
• What is the nature of reality?
• What is it were trying to preserve?
• Why?
• Whats the best way of doing it?

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Its a human thing

• Why should we only toil, the roof and crown of
  things..

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How do other species manage?
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How do other species manage?

• All in my head
• Nirvana?

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How do other species manage?

• All in my head
• Nirvana?

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Life on Mars

• The Phoenix Mars Lander sits on the surface of
  Mars in an artist's concept from NASA (NASA)
• Store and transmit
• http//www.abc.net.au/reslib/200805/r253674_104619
  3.jpg

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Springwatch
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What is information?

• Has it changed?
• The way we discover / create / manage it has
• Has it left the library / librarian behind?

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ncbi
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What is publication?

• Data, images etc are publication objects in their
  own right
• How do we store them, access them, preserve them,
  manage them?
• Who does it?

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What is a Plant Sciences Library?

• Like NCBI/NLM or a different world?
• A pivot?
• Or a point of view?

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A focussed view of an integrated collection

• Different tools for different views
• Are we shop-keepers or manufacturers?

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Portals
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OFIS
Services
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IUFRO
Networks
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Bleeding edge

• Binoculars (sharp edge) or searchlight (fading
  off at edges)?
• Connecting detailed views is the challenge
• ttp//www.turbophoto.com/Free-Stock-Images/Images/
  Light20Beam.jp

http//www.turbophoto.com/Free-Stock-Images/Images
/Light20Beam.jpg
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Leaders or led?

• Bleeding edges
• dont bleed for ever
• But people always want beer

http//www.cartoonstock.com/directory/c/cutting_ed
ge.asp
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What is Library 2.0?

• http//www.telegraph.co.uk/money/graphics/2008/06/
  04/calex04.gif
• DIY

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The end of civilisation?

• Was it for this I wakend thy young mind? (Robert
  Southey, History)
• Was it for this the clay grew tall? (Wilfred
  Owen. Futility)
• We are degrading ourselves / our students

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Encyclopaedia Britannica Goes -- Gasp! -- Wiki

• Long a standard reference source for scholarship,
  largely because of its tightly controlled
  editing, the Encyclopaedia Britannica announced
  this week it was throwing open its
  elegantly-bound covers to the masses.It will
  allow the user community (in the words of the
  encyclopedias blog) to contribute their own
  articles, which will be clearly marked and run
  alongside the edited reference pieces.At
  Britannica, readers and users will also be
  invited into an online community where they can
  work and publish at Britannicas site under their
  own names, the encyclopedias blog explains.But
  its not a complete free-for-all. The voice of
  Britannica adds that the core encyclopedia itself
  will continue to be edited according to the most
  rigorous standards and will bear the imprimatur
  Britannica checked to distinguish it from
  material on the site for which Britannica editors
  are not responsible.
• Josh Fischman
• The Chronicle of Higher Education - Wired
  Campus. June 6, 2008 http//chronicle.com/wiredca
  mpus/article/3064/encyclopedia-britannica-goes-gas
  p-wiki

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Library 2.0

• Is not didactic
• Is a toolkit
• Is enabling
• Is bidirectional and iterative
• Is a strategy for constant change while promoting
  a participatory role for library users (Michael
  Casey)
• Is about innovation, people, community building

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Building bridges
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www.reichsbruecke.net/geschichte_e.php
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Beta is forever

• Darwinism?
• Evolution or extinction
• The choice is ours

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Where do we start and end?

• In the past, the purchasing decisions of
  university librarians made it all too easy for
  students to find good material and avoid the bad.
  Now they have to learn how to evaluate sources
  for themselves, looking at issues of provenance,
  date, reputation, peer review and so on. It is
  one of the crucial new roles for librarians to
  help them Deborah Shorley, Imperial
• and to help them undo what they've learnt
  though Google and social-networking sites Jane
  Savidge, Univ of Surrey
• Hits and Misses, THE, 5 June 08,
  http//www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?se
  ctioncode26storycode402225

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From responses to Hits and Misses,THE,5 June 08

• Bill in DC 10 June, 2008 As a high school
  teacher, I get the feeling that the problem
  discussed here -- low student understand of the
  nature of viable research -- is not new.
• What we might call the googled bibliography just
  makes it a great deal easier to figure out if a
  given student understands the nature of
  peer-reviewed and reputable sources.
• Once, all students, finding no information except
  in published books, had all their sources
  filtered by the purchasing librarian. The result
  every source passed muster. Now, they can find
  sources that are little better than the ramblings
  of the insane, since the librarians don't control
  their access to data. Result many sources are
  cited that are disreputable.
• I doubt that the average citizen fifty years ago
  had much better understanding it's just that
  we're better able to detect it, since new
  technology gives students more opportunity to
  display their imperfections.
• I take it as an opportunity, not a problem
  better detectors lead to better realities, even
  if we have to climb the epistemic hill of our
  discovery of the severity of the problem.

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Just do it

• Is the choice ours?
• Over to you!

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Plant Sciences Library 2.0

• Jarmo Saarikko
• Finnish Forest Research Institute Metla
• Head of Information Service (ex Library)

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Plant Sciences Library 2.0

• Smaller special libraries are rapidly
  disappearing -
• often amalgamated to larger units

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Plant Sciences Library 2.0

• What makes this library to be a second level
  library?
• Collections? Services? Staff?

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Library 2.0

• Special collections - are there any left?
• Plant sciences staff how to find them?
• Forestry patrons where do they go to now?
• Are there any dedicated services needed?
• What makes a special library special?
• Do you find the special if you need it?

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Science 2.0

• Science ? E-science ? Science 2.0
• Interdisciplinarity
• How can the Web 2.0 technologies
• help patrons to receive the library services they
  need in the new science environment
• help librarians and information specialists to
  provide their expertise is of use to their
  patrons
• in both the traditional and the new innovative
  services

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Web 2.0 and Library 2.0

• All have access to the net
• Mobile access from anywhere they go
• Library as physical space may need a digital
  or virtual equivalent where the roaming
  patrons can visit
• Should libraries reach out to the patrons?
• Library in a small and remote research unit?
• Services are changing
• Required expertise is changing

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Library 2.0 new tasks

• Many sessions cover these during SLA2008
• New tasks and roles for the science librarians
• Acquisitions, procurement ebooks, research
  data
• Digital asset management
• Digitization
• Knowledge organization and management
• Networking the libraries

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Library 2.0 - services

• New way of thinking web services
• Easiness of finding and locating information
• Possibility to modify network content
• for an individual or a group
• Participation of patrons in service production
• Using the existing metadata in the catalogs
• National investments

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Specialists in Library 2.0

• New roles in serving research teams and networks
• Facilitating new communication and networking
  tools in research
• Segmentation
• Searching and managing information
• Drilling in the scientific content
• graphs and images are now being indexed, and
  datasets put available
• From social networking sources
• Blogs, videos, podcasts, wikis, feeds,
  slideshares
• Syndication of information, mashups and remixing
• Re-designing services
• OPAC for Web 2.0 http//maisonbisson.com/blog/post
  /11096
• Where are the physical shelved collections?
  Are they becoming a curiosity instead of an asset?

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Patrons in Library 2.0

• Collaboration
• Enriching the library catalogs
• from information systems to participatory
  systems
• tagging
• reviews, comments, corrections of errors
• recommendations
• aquisition suggestions
• suggest additional reading from the collection
• collective reliability check evidence for and
  against
• Examples amazon.com (link), librarything.com
  (link)
• Collection management
• bringing in digital assets

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Non-patrons in Library 2.0

• Reasons for not using libraries
• Lack of time
• Services not known
• Services known but not interested
• Young males
• Competition of time
• Providing interesting services and marketing them

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Library of the future

• A study made in Helsinki 2008
• Task to civilize and to keep up-to-date
• Living library - central knot
• Content is the most important feature
• Library is an interesting place both
  physically and virtually
• Events continually
• Everyone knows what library has to offer

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Additional information

• Reference
• http//liswiki.org/wiki/Library_2.0
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_2.0
• Networks
• A ning social network for Library 2.0
  http//library20.ning.com/
• Library 2.0 Reading List http//www.squidoo.com/l
  ibrary20
• This lens is created by Jenny Levine and Michael
  Stephens for the Library 2.0 course for the
  American library Association
• Has also definitions for Library 2.0
• Online articles on web 2.0 technologies
• http//www.techsource.ala.org/ltr/ (M.Boule)
• http//www.webology.ir/2006/v3n2/a25.html
  (J.M.Maness)