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Equilibrium Opportunisminformation strategies
and the new environment

• eLib Conference
• York, 2-4 December 1998James Michalko, Research
  Libraries Group

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OVERVIEW

• Caveats
• OUR PLACE, IGNORANCE METAPHOR
• Ecology as a metaphoric device
• Population, community and symbiosis
• Ecological succession

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OUR PLACE, IGNORANCE METAPHOR

• Rarefied air
• Deep ignorance
• Dim understanding
• Metaphors and analogies

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How Rarified?
6 Billion World Population
Total Population
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U.S. Consumer spending per person was about 482
in 1998 for Communications and Entertainment
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OUR PLACE, IGNORANCE METAPHOR

• Rarefied air
• Deep ignorance
• Dim understanding
• Metaphors and analogies

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Ecology as a Metaphoric Device

• Grounding our metaphors
• Baseline concepts
• eLib as context
• Ecology Study of the relationship between
  living things (within species and between
  different species) and between them and their
  environment

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Ecology - Relationships
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Food Webs???
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Food Webs???
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Ecology - Relationships
Biosphere
Biome
ECOSYSTEM
COMMUNITY
POPULATION
Individual
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Population -- Limits Capacities

• Equilibrium
• Rapid reproduction, short life span
• Opportunism
• Slow reproduction, long life span

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Community and Symbiosis

• Symbiosis
• Parasites and predators
• Beneficial mutualism
• Competitive exclusion

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Ecological Succession

• Transformations of communities
• Successive species
• Diversity of species
• Climax vegetation
• Matter increases
• More niches to be exploited
• Production rate slows

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"Towards the Hybrid Library"
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Equilibrium and Opportunism

• Population strategies and implications for eLib,
  The Library, the Information Economy
• Relationship to the Hybrid Library

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Symbiosis

• Change in principal relationships
• Collaboration and mutualism
• Peace between sectors
• Adaptation to new expectations
• Exploitation of unique assets

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Ecological Succession

• Stability vs. catastrophe
• Climactic ecosystems
• New species
• Environment of continual change
• Mass extinction or adaptation?
• The next metaphor...

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Consilience
A jumping together of knowledge as aresult of
the linking of facts and fact-based theory across
disciplines to create a common groundwork of
explanation. Edward O. Wilson
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