Redundancy
Collecting, storing materials in separate locations (libraries)
But the Internet allow for new ways to explore possibilities
Slide from CNI Project Briefing, Slide 35 (2008)
http://www.cni.org.tfms/2008a.spring/abstracts/PB-worldcat-jordan.html
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Presentation: next Generation Library Collections Management
Karen Calhoun, OCLC
Vice President, WorldCat and Metadata Services
Presentation document will be posted to LAUC website and blog.
Talk about phrase "Next Generation"
Getting tired of the phrase? Audience: Yes
As a fashionable term, we need to redefine what it means for things "over there"
Robert Young OCLC survey at user meetings at OCLC Western
"What Does 'next Generation Cataloging' Mean?"
Ten mentioned NG cataloging responses
A long tail toward the end, "a lot of pieces but not a collected whole"
Calhoun: a 'cloudy idea' of the notion of NG in our cataloging environment
What is not NG? Redundancy in library operations: collections and cataloging services
Vice President, WorldCat and Metadata Services
Presentation document will be posted to LAUC website and blog.
Talk about phrase "Next Generation"
Getting tired of the phrase? Audience: Yes
As a fashionable term, we need to redefine what it means for things "over there"
Robert Young OCLC survey at user meetings at OCLC Western
"What Does 'next Generation Cataloging' Mean?"
Ten mentioned NG cataloging responses
- FRBR/work sets
- RDA
- simpler/easier tools
- Lots of e-resources
- Authorities, thesauri
- Web-like linking, etc.
- User-supplied data
- More automation
- Subject analysts+
- Special collections
A long tail toward the end, "a lot of pieces but not a collected whole"
Calhoun: a 'cloudy idea' of the notion of NG in our cataloging environment
What is not NG? Redundancy in library operations: collections and cataloging services
Next Generation Library Services Panel - Karen and Patti
Karen Calhoun, VP of OCLC
Martha Hruska, Chair of the UC Next Generation Technical Services Steering Tem
Patti Martin, Chair of the UC Next Generation Melvyl Steering Team and member of the NGM Exec Team.
Karen tries to clarify what Next Generation means in this context and infers that it becomes dates. Still wants to consider it as new and exciting. References Robert Young at OCLC Western spring 2009) user meetings (citation hidden by chairs from my view). Looks at the survey results from technical services people. Talks about the things that technical services practitioners wanted such. Karen wants to talk about what it is not, i.e. redundancy in collections and in services. References to Jordan, Bill and Pozenel, Mindy. 2008. Presented as a CNI Project Briefing. Slide 35. Karen talks about how once OCLC records downloaded, they are not re-uploaded once corrected, so there is a duplication of effort that should not occur. Karen puts up a visual inverted triangle that has global at the top, group in th middle, and local at the point. On the left side is: Data sharing, syndication, synchronication, linking. On the Right side: outward integration, exposure, and linking of collections (e.g. Googl books, WorldCate, Other aggregatiors, nationa libriries, consortial) with a back and forth two arrows with Local/group authantication, discovers and delivery services. All of this comes under the heading of Coordinated global, collective, and local metadat managment. The clear implication to me is that OCLC wants to be our ILS. Yet, Karen's next slide has the header "metadata swithch": Click 3 Times and You're Back in Kansas (er, UC Riverside). The idea is that you start anywhere and you end up at your library. I'm not sure how or why you would need to choose this over Google Scholar and SFX (i.e. UC-eLinks). There is also the issue to me of marc records not covered
Synchronization
Syndication
Sharing
Looking at the synchronization issues.
Next covering the user driven part of OCLC.
Reference to www.worldcat.org/oclc/311870930. This one looks at what librarians and users want.
Karen doesn't want to talk about the qualities of this report now. Not sure what she's telling us that is new.
Now talking about how the catalog is social. The "Blurring of the lines between metadat or content consumers and careators (e.g.SoundUnwound; Expert community; End user community
Looking at OCLC Expert Community Experiment
Began Feb 15
Interest and motivation from those that want to use WC as cat of record.
End User Engagement: With Thanks to John MacColl's "Are Archives . . ."
Advising that should not describe everything in detail. Start with basic description
Looks at Library of Congress experiment with images available via Flickr. Notes that the new tags were useful as well as the comments. OCLC was able to find out more about each of these topics.
Multithreaded, mashed-=up, assembled from Various Sources, Dynamic/Changing, Social. That is to say that it opens up the possibility to creat editable entries by a community of users. [There's a lot of reference to what users _might_ do to help. What does that mean for those object that people don't do anything about?]. Karen uses the example of "Bob Dylan" in SoundUnwound. This is seen as a way to implement FRBR.
OCLC FRBR Work-Set Algoritghm.
Provides a FRBR-based view of the data
Recods clustered into works using author and title fields from bibliographic records, etc. [lots of data listed lots here]
Audience as what FRBR means to a public services person. Shows example of Blade Runner in which you have a faceted tag-cloud representation. The next example was "In defense of food : an eater's manifesto". This example uses the related works section.
Karen conceives of this as opening up metadata silos.
The slides for Karen's presentation will be on SlideShare, so I'll try to do my of my thoughts.
The irony of Karen's metaphor of using our own generators v. using an electric grid is not lost on me considering how we want to move in a slighty difference direction with power (e.g. using solar cells and wind power to generate our own power).
If Karen sees the advantage of OCLC as a sharing tool to get cloud computing going, what does that really mean.
This issue concentrates on how an invisible community can do what individuals can't and how a community can do it more cheaply and more efficiently. Yet, she later puts library employees back into the picture in the next slide. So, holding out the promise of "free stuff", the discussion turns to what we do, which costs money. This is confusing because it promises something for everyone and is open to odd interpretation. I'm sure I'm not quite getting this right, so I'll have to clarify my thoughts later. I'm also not sure, of those who were asked about it, how many of those who would view content would add to it or supplement it.
Patti Martin
Starting back to BSTF recommendations (this was gone over in another assembly). This report from 2005 is still being looked at. Reminds us that users wanted worldwide pool of information, simplicity, immediate satisfaction/delivery, quality results, web 2.0 tools. I'm not sure that we done better. Confused how content delivery has been made easier (some UC-eLinks go to text, some don't. Sometimes you have to go to menus, if you know what a menu might contain. Sometimes you have to just keep clicking.). Know, from working at reference, that tools like WorldCat local that look like they are wide and deep and aren't do a lot of harm and only add opaque complexities. Has not touched on issue of records purchased by universities that we cannot share by contract agreement. Talking about why we went with OCLC. Size is the major reason (more than 140 million with 60 million from non-US libraries in the queue). I've noticed that both Holly Tomren and I are trying to Twitter this. Check #LAUC as a search. Showing the chart of Melvyl v. NGM noting that the pilot sees plenty of usage despite lack of promotion (I would dispute that based on UCI's front door, Front door real estate=promotion and other studies have shown increases in such an instance). Patti notes that OCLC and UC have had to try and be very specific and detailed because we, as an organization, have very different cultures and ways of communicating. I don't think that many of the changes being discussed regarding unique branding, etc for WorldCat will be all that great if the past is any indication. Let's find out. Patti is promising local holdings (LHRs) and is testing with Aleph, Innovative, and Voyager at three campuses. Timetable pilot is extended until our needs are met. In this economic climate, I wonder who pays for the NGM pilot when it doesn't meet its goals?
Find more at libraries.universityofcalifornia/......... Suggests subscribing to Ellen Meltzer's list (UC Users Council).
Martha Hruska, Chair of the UC Next Generation Technical Services Steering Tem
Patti Martin, Chair of the UC Next Generation Melvyl Steering Team and member of the NGM Exec Team.
Karen tries to clarify what Next Generation means in this context and infers that it becomes dates. Still wants to consider it as new and exciting. References Robert Young at OCLC Western spring 2009) user meetings (citation hidden by chairs from my view). Looks at the survey results from technical services people. Talks about the things that technical services practitioners wanted such. Karen wants to talk about what it is not, i.e. redundancy in collections and in services. References to Jordan, Bill and Pozenel, Mindy. 2008. Presented as a CNI Project Briefing. Slide 35. Karen talks about how once OCLC records downloaded, they are not re-uploaded once corrected, so there is a duplication of effort that should not occur. Karen puts up a visual inverted triangle that has global at the top, group in th middle, and local at the point. On the left side is: Data sharing, syndication, synchronication, linking. On the Right side: outward integration, exposure, and linking of collections (e.g. Googl books, WorldCate, Other aggregatiors, nationa libriries, consortial) with a back and forth two arrows with Local/group authantication, discovers and delivery services. All of this comes under the heading of Coordinated global, collective, and local metadat managment. The clear implication to me is that OCLC wants to be our ILS. Yet, Karen's next slide has the header "metadata swithch": Click 3 Times and You're Back in Kansas (er, UC Riverside). The idea is that you start anywhere and you end up at your library. I'm not sure how or why you would need to choose this over Google Scholar and SFX (i.e. UC-eLinks). There is also the issue to me of marc records not covered
Synchronization
Syndication
Sharing
Looking at the synchronization issues.
Next covering the user driven part of OCLC.
Reference to www.worldcat.org/oclc/311870930. This one looks at what librarians and users want.
Karen doesn't want to talk about the qualities of this report now. Not sure what she's telling us that is new.
Now talking about how the catalog is social. The "Blurring of the lines between metadat or content consumers and careators (e.g.SoundUnwound; Expert community; End user community
Looking at OCLC Expert Community Experiment
Began Feb 15
Interest and motivation from those that want to use WC as cat of record.
End User Engagement: With Thanks to John MacColl's "Are Archives . . ."
Advising that should not describe everything in detail. Start with basic description
Looks at Library of Congress experiment with images available via Flickr. Notes that the new tags were useful as well as the comments. OCLC was able to find out more about each of these topics.
Multithreaded, mashed-=up, assembled from Various Sources, Dynamic/Changing, Social. That is to say that it opens up the possibility to creat editable entries by a community of users. [There's a lot of reference to what users _might_ do to help. What does that mean for those object that people don't do anything about?]. Karen uses the example of "Bob Dylan" in SoundUnwound. This is seen as a way to implement FRBR.
OCLC FRBR Work-Set Algoritghm.
Provides a FRBR-based view of the data
Recods clustered into works using author and title fields from bibliographic records, etc. [lots of data listed lots here]
Audience as what FRBR means to a public services person. Shows example of Blade Runner in which you have a faceted tag-cloud representation. The next example was "In defense of food : an eater's manifesto". This example uses the related works section.
Karen conceives of this as opening up metadata silos.
The slides for Karen's presentation will be on SlideShare, so I'll try to do my of my thoughts.
The irony of Karen's metaphor of using our own generators v. using an electric grid is not lost on me considering how we want to move in a slighty difference direction with power (e.g. using solar cells and wind power to generate our own power).
If Karen sees the advantage of OCLC as a sharing tool to get cloud computing going, what does that really mean.
This issue concentrates on how an invisible community can do what individuals can't and how a community can do it more cheaply and more efficiently. Yet, she later puts library employees back into the picture in the next slide. So, holding out the promise of "free stuff", the discussion turns to what we do, which costs money. This is confusing because it promises something for everyone and is open to odd interpretation. I'm sure I'm not quite getting this right, so I'll have to clarify my thoughts later. I'm also not sure, of those who were asked about it, how many of those who would view content would add to it or supplement it.
Patti Martin
Starting back to BSTF recommendations (this was gone over in another assembly). This report from 2005 is still being looked at. Reminds us that users wanted worldwide pool of information, simplicity, immediate satisfaction/delivery, quality results, web 2.0 tools. I'm not sure that we done better. Confused how content delivery has been made easier (some UC-eLinks go to text, some don't. Sometimes you have to go to menus, if you know what a menu might contain. Sometimes you have to just keep clicking.). Know, from working at reference, that tools like WorldCat local that look like they are wide and deep and aren't do a lot of harm and only add opaque complexities. Has not touched on issue of records purchased by universities that we cannot share by contract agreement. Talking about why we went with OCLC. Size is the major reason (more than 140 million with 60 million from non-US libraries in the queue). I've noticed that both Holly Tomren and I are trying to Twitter this. Check #LAUC as a search. Showing the chart of Melvyl v. NGM noting that the pilot sees plenty of usage despite lack of promotion (I would dispute that based on UCI's front door, Front door real estate=promotion and other studies have shown increases in such an instance). Patti notes that OCLC and UC have had to try and be very specific and detailed because we, as an organization, have very different cultures and ways of communicating. I don't think that many of the changes being discussed regarding unique branding, etc for WorldCat will be all that great if the past is any indication. Let's find out. Patti is promising local holdings (LHRs) and is testing with Aleph, Innovative, and Voyager at three campuses. Timetable pilot is extended until our needs are met. In this economic climate, I wonder who pays for the NGM pilot when it doesn't meet its goals?
Find more at libraries.universityofcalifornia/......... Suggests subscribing to Ellen Meltzer's list (UC Users Council).
Late breaking news: LTAG announces collaborative software
Lorelei Tanji (I) announced LTAG has selected ReadyTalk as a collaborative communication tool for the UC system.
Updates to be included in the SOPAG minutes posted to the CDL website.
ReadyTalk
http://www.readytalk.com/
Updates to be included in the SOPAG minutes posted to the CDL website.
ReadyTalk
http://www.readytalk.com/
Questions for RDP
Irvine: Could the program be changed to allow for rolling awarding of funds?
Diamond: The UCOP process is set to distributed on July 1.
Diamond: The UCOP process is set to distributed on July 1.
Report for Research and Professional Development Lucia Diamond
Research and Professional Development
One mini grant not awarded because the proposal was not research related. Gave person ideas to change to make research grant.
Recommendation for research grants forwarded to UCOP for approval.
Two major issues:
1. Purchase of software and equipment. Materials purchased from grant is the property of the UC system. Software would have to be supported by campus systems office.
Guidelines are one large document. need a faster way to search and work with guidelines.
More "tweeking" of mini-grant and presentation guidelines.
2. Presentation grant recipients would not have prior notice of the acceptance of proposals, does not fit into 1.5 year process of research grant review cycle.
Conversations at UCOP for funding presentation before the July fiscal years. Lucia has submitted a research proposal to encumber the remaining research funds in the current year for distribution next year.
Figures in final report.
Represented librarians: $10,000
Non-represented librarians: $8100 - recommended $700 and $900
Dunlap: Mini-grants and presentation grants this year helped with money spending this year.
- 4 research grants
- 16 mini and presentation grants
One mini grant not awarded because the proposal was not research related. Gave person ideas to change to make research grant.
Recommendation for research grants forwarded to UCOP for approval.
Two major issues:
1. Purchase of software and equipment. Materials purchased from grant is the property of the UC system. Software would have to be supported by campus systems office.
Guidelines are one large document. need a faster way to search and work with guidelines.
More "tweeking" of mini-grant and presentation guidelines.
2. Presentation grant recipients would not have prior notice of the acceptance of proposals, does not fit into 1.5 year process of research grant review cycle.
Conversations at UCOP for funding presentation before the July fiscal years. Lucia has submitted a research proposal to encumber the remaining research funds in the current year for distribution next year.
Figures in final report.
Represented librarians: $10,000
Non-represented librarians: $8100 - recommended $700 and $900
Dunlap: Mini-grants and presentation grants this year helped with money spending this year.
SOPAG Committee - Mary-Lin Berstrom
Update from Systemwide Operations and Planning Advisory Group (SOPAG)
New UL at Santa Barbara, Brenda Johnson
Laine Farley position at CDL approved as executive director of the California Digital Library (CDL)
SOPAG representatives
HOPS - working on "Next Big Idea" for Public Services
Electronic Chat has become very popular
Review of statistics collected and reported to ARL, ACRL, UCOP
Looking at statistics collected and how they are used for?
Next Generation Melvyl pilot continues
UC digital collections review, infrastructure and requirement
Task Force on Digital Collections
Initiative looking at project management across the UC system
Following on VDX implementation process and to develop skills for project management expertise moving forward.
LTAG focusing on collaborative work tools and those to recommend across the UC system, with pressure on travel funds and systemwide workgroups
LTAG experimenting with workgroup wikis
Review of contracts, such as Elsevier
Springer E-Book contract with Open Access clause
CDC briefing document for UC collections going forward.
The space crunch in RLFs - what to do with physical collections, perhaps linking with other groups across the country
Electronic project on ETD pilot taking place.
New UL at Santa Barbara, Brenda Johnson
Laine Farley position at CDL approved as executive director of the California Digital Library (CDL)
SOPAG representatives
| Campus | Member's Name |
| UCB | Bernie Hurley |
| UCD | Gail Yokote |
| UCI | Lorelei Tanji, Chair |
| UCLA | Susan Parker |
| UCM | Bruce Miller |
| UCR | Diane Bisom |
| UCSD | Luc Declerck |
| UCSF | Julia Kochi |
| UCSB | Lucia Snowhill |
| UCSC | Kate McGirr |
| LAUC | Mary Linn Bergstrom, UCSD |
| CDL | Felicia Poe |
HOPS - working on "Next Big Idea" for Public Services
Electronic Chat has become very popular
Review of statistics collected and reported to ARL, ACRL, UCOP
Looking at statistics collected and how they are used for?
Next Generation Melvyl pilot continues
UC digital collections review, infrastructure and requirement
Task Force on Digital Collections
Initiative looking at project management across the UC system
Following on VDX implementation process and to develop skills for project management expertise moving forward.
LTAG focusing on collaborative work tools and those to recommend across the UC system, with pressure on travel funds and systemwide workgroups
LTAG experimenting with workgroup wikis
Review of contracts, such as Elsevier
Springer E-Book contract with Open Access clause
CDC briefing document for UC collections going forward.
The space crunch in RLFs - what to do with physical collections, perhaps linking with other groups across the country
Electronic project on ETD pilot taking place.
Committee Reports
Committee Reports will be posted to the LAUC website
- Nominations
- Research and Professional Development
- Diversity
- Professional Governance
Questions for Janet Lockwood
Miki Goral (UCLA): Question about review of Affiliate Organization memo mentioned in LAUC President Dunlop about memo from VP Dan Greenstein.
Dunlop will share documentation with Lise Snyder (UCLA) and Janet Lockwood.
Goral: LAUC recognized in APM as a recognized affiliation similar to Faculty senate.
Dunlop will share documentation with Lise Snyder (UCLA) and Janet Lockwood.
Goral: LAUC recognized in APM as a recognized affiliation similar to Faculty senate.
Karen Calhoun Presentation--Summary
Karen Calhoun, Vice President of OCLC, is speaking about the possibilities opened by the Next Generation Melvyl project. Below are some stream-of-consciousness reflections.
Definition of "next generation": Moving away from purely local Integrated Library Systems, toward more local and coordinated action across a larger system. Essential components for such a system:
Catalogs should be user-driven. Report to read: Online Catalogs: What Users and Librarians Want. Presentation version, from Charleston Conference 2008.
Blurred lines in metadata creation between experts and end users--another trend in cataloging.
OCLC currently conducting an "expert community experiment" that allows expert catalogers to make more changes to records than they could previously.
For detailed information, consider allowing users to add content to the record. From John MacColl, "Are Archives the New Libraries?"
Library of Congress had great success with adding images to Flickr. Similar plans in works for the University of California Digital Special Collections.
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) a current project that seeks to understand how to make data more shareable across systems (see requirements above.) One aspect of FRBR: Generating tag clouds from LC subject headings that already exist.
Amazon can suggest related works based on people's purchases, an option not available within WorldCat. Can use clustered subject headings to suggest related works.
Law enforcement has strong interest in authority control, to ensure they are dealing with the right people.
Goal for FY09: Launch Next Gen Melvyl cataloging. Hoped for announcement at ALA.
"Cloud computing" similar to serving up electricity from the grid. Eventually don't even think about it. YouTube video (10 minutes): "What is cloud computing?"
OCLC wants to build cloud services on top of WorldCat to support library resource management.
More info: OCLC Web Scale management services.
Imperatives, in closing:
Definition of "next generation": Moving away from purely local Integrated Library Systems, toward more local and coordinated action across a larger system. Essential components for such a system:
- Data Sharing
- Syndication
- Synchronization
- Linking
Catalogs should be user-driven. Report to read: Online Catalogs: What Users and Librarians Want. Presentation version, from Charleston Conference 2008.
Blurred lines in metadata creation between experts and end users--another trend in cataloging.
OCLC currently conducting an "expert community experiment" that allows expert catalogers to make more changes to records than they could previously.
For detailed information, consider allowing users to add content to the record. From John MacColl, "Are Archives the New Libraries?"
Library of Congress had great success with adding images to Flickr. Similar plans in works for the University of California Digital Special Collections.
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) a current project that seeks to understand how to make data more shareable across systems (see requirements above.) One aspect of FRBR: Generating tag clouds from LC subject headings that already exist.
Amazon can suggest related works based on people's purchases, an option not available within WorldCat. Can use clustered subject headings to suggest related works.
Law enforcement has strong interest in authority control, to ensure they are dealing with the right people.
Goal for FY09: Launch Next Gen Melvyl cataloging. Hoped for announcement at ALA.
"Cloud computing" similar to serving up electricity from the grid. Eventually don't even think about it. YouTube video (10 minutes): "What is cloud computing?"
OCLC wants to build cloud services on top of WorldCat to support library resource management.
More info: OCLC Web Scale management services.
Imperatives, in closing:
- Expose your metadata!
- Open up metadata silos
- Develop evidence-based, user-centered definitions of metadata quality; engage with users as metadata contributors
- Mobe metadata management to the cloud
Janet Lockwood, UCOP
Janet Lockwood, UCOP
It's very good to be with you to give an update on Office of the President activities.
Brief Announcements
Regents met last week and approved UCOP budget 2009-10
A brief idea of the restructuring at UCOP
In protracted reorganization but feel that majority has been completed - redesign phase complete
Reorganization of academic affairs
Units under Provost Pitts
53 positions posted at UCOP and right now going through posting of new positions
Hope to complete phase by July
The scope of change at UCOP
From VP Dan Greenstein - staff reduced from FTE 1800 to about 1100-1200 FTE
"Major, major changes at OP" - phasing into implementation
"Cultural and climate change" implementing services changes
Glad that UCOP was useful in the bylaws process and hope to be called upon for bylaws revisions
2008-09 salary and professional development issues still in mediation
Mention of proposed draft amendment for Standing Order 100.4x "Policy Governing Employee Furloughs And Compensation Reductions During Fiscal Emergencies And Amendment Of Standing Order 100.4x
President intends to process have broad consultation and review
No discussion of implementing any program around salary reduction and furloughs
Process around emergency actions around specific actions
President has correct policies in place before any actions are taken
Budget Office anticipating May 19 election and disposition of effect on UC budget
If Prop 1A and 1B were to fail, the UC would be faced with $250-350 million on top of current $150 Million already in place.
It's very good to be with you to give an update on Office of the President activities.
Brief Announcements
Regents met last week and approved UCOP budget 2009-10
A brief idea of the restructuring at UCOP
In protracted reorganization but feel that majority has been completed - redesign phase complete
Reorganization of academic affairs
Units under Provost Pitts
53 positions posted at UCOP and right now going through posting of new positions
Hope to complete phase by July
The scope of change at UCOP
From VP Dan Greenstein - staff reduced from FTE 1800 to about 1100-1200 FTE
"Major, major changes at OP" - phasing into implementation
"Cultural and climate change" implementing services changes
Glad that UCOP was useful in the bylaws process and hope to be called upon for bylaws revisions
2008-09 salary and professional development issues still in mediation
Mention of proposed draft amendment for Standing Order 100.4x "Policy Governing Employee Furloughs And Compensation Reductions During Fiscal Emergencies And Amendment Of Standing Order 100.4x
President intends to process have broad consultation and review
No discussion of implementing any program around salary reduction and furloughs
Process around emergency actions around specific actions
President has correct policies in place before any actions are taken
Budget Office anticipating May 19 election and disposition of effect on UC budget
If Prop 1A and 1B were to fail, the UC would be faced with $250-350 million on top of current $150 Million already in place.
Concern of Library Budget - President's Report summary
From the President Reports:
Complete notes to follow.
Survey of library budget will be drafted and distributed to campus LAUC executive boards for consideration and contribution.
Fall Assembly, December 3 at UC Berkeley
Complete notes to follow.
Survey of library budget will be drafted and distributed to campus LAUC executive boards for consideration and contribution.
Fall Assembly, December 3 at UC Berkeley
Travel Grant Award winners
Travel Grant Award winners for Spring Assembly 2009
- Angela Boyd, Santa Barbara
- Jeffra Bussmann, Irvine
- Tony Lin, Irvine
- Teal Smith, Merced
- Yen Tran, Santa Barbara
- Nina Meechoonuk, San Francisco
Welcoming remarks from Diane Bisom, UCR AUL for Technical Services
Welcome from Diane Bisom, Assoc University Librarian-Information Technology & Systems
Welcome from UC Riverside.
Known for its Virtual library collections and Shirley Bigna mentions "non-virtual" librarians.
Announcements
University of California Berkeley LAUC-B Fall Conference
Oct.23rd Program "Getting What you Want When You Want It."
UCB Library School reunion
Sunday Night during ALA
Welcome from UC Riverside.
UCR Palm Desert Graduate Center
"The UCR Palm Desert Graduate Center expands the reach of University of California, Riverside into one of the fastest growing regions of California. Established as a teaching and research center, the UCR Palm Desert Graduate Center is a catalyst for diversification of the inland desert region by providing relevant regional research, offering innovative graduate programs that attract and retain world class talent to the region, convening and creating partnerships that advance the public good, and impacting the cultural life of the community."
Source: http://www.palmdesert.ucr.edu/
Known for its Virtual library collections and Shirley Bigna mentions "non-virtual" librarians.
Announcements
University of California Berkeley LAUC-B Fall Conference
Oct.23rd Program "Getting What you Want When You Want It."
UCB Library School reunion
Sunday Night during ALA
From Order to Reports - dp
Clank! It begins.
We are reminded once again that we are recording for posterity.
The virtual dial-in for Diane begins.
Diane speaks - Technology AUL for UCR.
Notes its virtual collections and non-virtual librarians.
Overview of today's program - mostly on Next Generation Melvyl
LAUC-B Conference announcement on Friday Oct. 23?
Rollcall
President's report highlights
Two appointments
UCALIST, Feb. 3 meeting on scholarly communication. Update on Google stuff and open access
Transition to zero-based budgeting beginning Nov. 3, 2009. Need projections to 2011.
LAUC-LA concerned about standard order 10o.4, which does emergency salary reductions, sent a letter to UCOP.
Janet Lockwood, Associate Director, Academic Personel, Academic Advancement, UCOP comes in via Skpe with projection on wide screen.
Regents met last week and approved 2009/10 budget. Restructuring process in progress. Finished with re-org of Academic Affairs- this means that Provost Pitts is going over provisions made last year and 53 positions have been posted and hope to have positions filled by July. FTE has gone from 1800 to 1100-1200 at Office of the President. In process of implementation and climate change in which making themselves a more "service-oriented" group. The brief update on collective bargaining, which includes 08/09 salary and professional development monies. Re: 100.4, knows that President hopes for broad consultation. Says that no program in place for furlough, etc. for immediate future. However. wants policy and procedure in place. Budget Office is looking to May 19 election, which will have a large effect on UC budget. If 1A and 1B, then we will have 250 to 300 million on top of 200+ million already absorbed.
Questions for Janet
What is an affiliate organization in terms of how LAUC is defined?
Janet hasn't heard of it.
Sam will give her the documentation
Micki points that APM indicates that LAUC similar to Senate, so wants to know if that would be considered an affiliate.
Sam will share documentation.
Reports
Highlights from SOPAG (Systemwide Operations and Planning Advisory Group)
Changes in personnel - New UCSB UL and new CDL person
Reps called out. Mentions that all of the minutes, etc. have been available online.
Discuss 24/7 QP. NGM monitoring. Consortial technical services.
[trying to work digital camera, but had problems with it]
Lucia on Research Grants and Mini-Grants - 4 apps and 16 apps
There were 4 applications for research, one could not submitt. The 16 had 15 that worked. They forwarded them to OP. Noted that software purchased had to be supported and that it was then owned and could be used by anyone in UC. It was thought that the guidelines for these purchases and more should be changed. The other big issue had to do with presentation timelines - funding is allocated before acceptance to a conference is known. Awardees will be notified at the end of the month. Money remaining from the budget will be in the final report because there the money comes from two sources - contract for represented librarians and money OP gives for non-represented librarians.
Questions: Mitchell Brown asked about the possibility of having mid-year awards. Lucia still notes that there is still a timing issue. The money is swept out by June 30. Money is encumbered to your university and, if not used, will revert back to OP. No way at present for money to be given out throughout the year.
Lorelei mentions that LTAG will be supporting Ready-Talk for conference software.
We are reminded once again that we are recording for posterity.
The virtual dial-in for Diane begins.
Diane speaks - Technology AUL for UCR.
Notes its virtual collections and non-virtual librarians.
Overview of today's program - mostly on Next Generation Melvyl
LAUC-B Conference announcement on Friday Oct. 23?
Rollcall
President's report highlights
Two appointments
UCALIST, Feb. 3 meeting on scholarly communication. Update on Google stuff and open access
Transition to zero-based budgeting beginning Nov. 3, 2009. Need projections to 2011.
LAUC-LA concerned about standard order 10o.4, which does emergency salary reductions, sent a letter to UCOP.
Janet Lockwood, Associate Director, Academic Personel, Academic Advancement, UCOP comes in via Skpe with projection on wide screen.
Regents met last week and approved 2009/10 budget. Restructuring process in progress. Finished with re-org of Academic Affairs- this means that Provost Pitts is going over provisions made last year and 53 positions have been posted and hope to have positions filled by July. FTE has gone from 1800 to 1100-1200 at Office of the President. In process of implementation and climate change in which making themselves a more "service-oriented" group. The brief update on collective bargaining, which includes 08/09 salary and professional development monies. Re: 100.4, knows that President hopes for broad consultation. Says that no program in place for furlough, etc. for immediate future. However. wants policy and procedure in place. Budget Office is looking to May 19 election, which will have a large effect on UC budget. If 1A and 1B, then we will have 250 to 300 million on top of 200+ million already absorbed.
Questions for Janet
What is an affiliate organization in terms of how LAUC is defined?
Janet hasn't heard of it.
Sam will give her the documentation
Micki points that APM indicates that LAUC similar to Senate, so wants to know if that would be considered an affiliate.
Sam will share documentation.
Reports
Highlights from SOPAG (Systemwide Operations and Planning Advisory Group)
Changes in personnel - New UCSB UL and new CDL person
Reps called out. Mentions that all of the minutes, etc. have been available online.
Discuss 24/7 QP. NGM monitoring. Consortial technical services.
[trying to work digital camera, but had problems with it]
Lucia on Research Grants and Mini-Grants - 4 apps and 16 apps
There were 4 applications for research, one could not submitt. The 16 had 15 that worked. They forwarded them to OP. Noted that software purchased had to be supported and that it was then owned and could be used by anyone in UC. It was thought that the guidelines for these purchases and more should be changed. The other big issue had to do with presentation timelines - funding is allocated before acceptance to a conference is known. Awardees will be notified at the end of the month. Money remaining from the budget will be in the final report because there the money comes from two sources - contract for represented librarians and money OP gives for non-represented librarians.
Questions: Mitchell Brown asked about the possibility of having mid-year awards. Lucia still notes that there is still a timing issue. The money is swept out by June 30. Money is encumbered to your university and, if not used, will revert back to OP. No way at present for money to be given out throughout the year.
Lorelei mentions that LTAG will be supporting Ready-Talk for conference software.
People with computers
Dana starts up
As if. The drive was simple. The power, not so much. If it weren't for Mitch's Boyscout tendencies, we'd be out two bloggers. No outlets=typical 20th century meeting space. The campus is small, tidy and pretty. We have yet to begin, but I've managed to exceed my cookie quota already. Looking around I wonder if everyone is blogging about this event. The event begins and Twitter crashes. Hm.
Spring Assembly getting ready to start
Assembly delegates from all campuses have arrived at the Palm Desert campus. It's 89 deg F and clear. [The temperature hit 99 deg F by midday. mcb]
The LAUC Riverside members have done a superb job of welcoming the delegates, with coffee, cookies, and drinks for the beginning session that will start at noon.
Thanks to: Shirley Bigna, Stella Barker, Marie Bronel, Kuei Chiu, Christina Cicchetti, Ken Furuta, Patricia Hargis, Margaret Hogarth, Heidi Hutchinson, Lizabeth langson, Ying Shen, Particia Smith-Hunt, Manuel Urrizola, Geetha Yapa, and Michael Yonezawa.
The LAUC Riverside members have done a superb job of welcoming the delegates, with coffee, cookies, and drinks for the beginning session that will start at noon.
Thanks to: Shirley Bigna, Stella Barker, Marie Bronel, Kuei Chiu, Christina Cicchetti, Ken Furuta, Patricia Hargis, Margaret Hogarth, Heidi Hutchinson, Lizabeth langson, Ying Shen, Particia Smith-Hunt, Manuel Urrizola, Geetha Yapa, and Michael Yonezawa.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Spring Assembly 2009
The LAUC Spring Assembly 2009 will be held May 13-14, at the Riverside Palm Desert campus. You can view the assembly website here.
Friday, January 2, 2009
new presentation posted
After some delay due to my being away for the holidays, Roger Schonfeld's presentation about faculty satisfaction with electronic resource preservation is now posted on the website.
Monday, December 8, 2008
presentations online
The presentations from Emily Stambaugh and Constance Malpas are now posted on the LAUC website. Thanks, Constance & Emily!
Some attendees, in the Lange Room overlooking San Francisco. Photo by Min-Lin Fang.
Some attendees, in the Lange Room overlooking San Francisco. Photo by Min-Lin Fang.
Friday, December 5, 2008
Live Blogging Observations
Blogging the fall Assembly was my first time live blogging, even though I've maintained a blog for almost four years. I found it to be challenging but worthwhile. If you want to know more, you're very welcome to read my non-live blog post.
the blog
I think I have all of my notes posted now, after a series of technical mishaps -- I was unable to get online during the afternoon session, and yesterday all of Blogger went down! (which is why, if you tried to access the blog, you were getting errors). A fitting end to a discussion about the consequences of putting all our data online.
Please comment with what you thought of the assembly, this blog, or the topics raised by the participants. And thanks to Marcus Banks, Mitchell Brown & Dana Peterman!
If you have photos, notes or reflections that you would like to see posted in the blog, please send them to me and I'll be happy to do so. This is meant to be a collective effort.
thanks for reading,
-- phoebe (2008-2010 LAUC webmaster) psayers (at) ucdavis.edu
Please comment with what you thought of the assembly, this blog, or the topics raised by the participants. And thanks to Marcus Banks, Mitchell Brown & Dana Peterman!
If you have photos, notes or reflections that you would like to see posted in the blog, please send them to me and I'll be happy to do so. This is meant to be a collective effort.
thanks for reading,
-- phoebe (2008-2010 LAUC webmaster) psayers (at) ucdavis.edu
Reflection on preservation
Editor's note: I found the assembly's four presentations and the afternoon's discussion to be a completely fascinating session about issues related to preservation and collections, and from a perspective that I rarely encounter or deal with as a science reference librarian who is more focused on immediate reference transactions, instruction, and providing highly-used digital and print materials. I'm pretty new at working on collections, but as these different talks were given I found myself thinking about the small weeding project I've been doing lately, pulling material from the computer science stacks at Davis to send to NRLF. Some questions I've faced on a detailed, immediate scale as I get my hands dusty -- is a book about a little-used database program from 1986 worth saving in storage; if I send a rare tech report to storage will that make it more likely to be digitized and thus more accessible, rather than less; can I toss this programming book if we also have it online -- were faced on a university, consortial and global scale by the presenters. What are the implications for our collections -- print, digital and everything in between -- when we practice shared collection development, are busy putting as much as we can online, but when no one philosophically or practically can "go it alone"? What is our goal for preserving the world's knowledge, and are we doing enough to get there?
This summer I was lucky enough to visit the Library of Alexandria, as part of another project I work on as a volunteer. The new library, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, or "BibAlex" as it is informally known there, is of course historically famous as a repository of the world's knowledge, a place where everything that was written in the known world was at one point or another copied or plundered to find a home in the library. That was long ago, and there is nothing left now of the historical library, except many stories and a vague idea of where on the Egyptian coastline it may have been. The new library is designed on different lines; it is more of a conference and educational center than anything, complete with a children's library, planetarium and coffeshop. The new librarians of Alexandria work mostly on outreach, and though they do work with their print collections (which to me were surprisingly small and impoverished, built mainly on donations, though housed in an absolutely beautiful reading room) they are most excited about digitizing materials, especially out of copyright Arabic books and manuscripts. Written Arabic, as you might imagine, is a tricky language to digitize and OCR scan -- so much so that the programmers of BibAlex had to write their own OCR software, apparently the first for digitizing Arabic. We got a special tour of their digitizing room, and it reminded me entirely of the scanning operation in the NRLF that the Internet Archive operated -- rows of cameras and scanners, and young men and women silently turning pages.
Is this the future of plundering and copying the world's knowledge -- only this time not just for one building, but for the world at large? The librarians of BibAlex -- there are nearly a thousand staff there, though they don't have many resources for materials -- were absolutely eager to collaborate with libraries in the United States and elsewhere to get their new digital resources cataloged, distributed, put online in local systems around the world. They are proud of their work, enthusiastic about collaborating and expanding their operations, and they recognize the uniqueness of the collections that they do have. As I was listening to the LAUC presentations this afternoon, I was thinking about the BibAlex folks and their work, and thinking: we should be that eager too, to build a new Library of Alexandria for all of us.
This summer I was lucky enough to visit the Library of Alexandria, as part of another project I work on as a volunteer. The new library, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, or "BibAlex" as it is informally known there, is of course historically famous as a repository of the world's knowledge, a place where everything that was written in the known world was at one point or another copied or plundered to find a home in the library. That was long ago, and there is nothing left now of the historical library, except many stories and a vague idea of where on the Egyptian coastline it may have been. The new library is designed on different lines; it is more of a conference and educational center than anything, complete with a children's library, planetarium and coffeshop. The new librarians of Alexandria work mostly on outreach, and though they do work with their print collections (which to me were surprisingly small and impoverished, built mainly on donations, though housed in an absolutely beautiful reading room) they are most excited about digitizing materials, especially out of copyright Arabic books and manuscripts. Written Arabic, as you might imagine, is a tricky language to digitize and OCR scan -- so much so that the programmers of BibAlex had to write their own OCR software, apparently the first for digitizing Arabic. We got a special tour of their digitizing room, and it reminded me entirely of the scanning operation in the NRLF that the Internet Archive operated -- rows of cameras and scanners, and young men and women silently turning pages.
Is this the future of plundering and copying the world's knowledge -- only this time not just for one building, but for the world at large? The librarians of BibAlex -- there are nearly a thousand staff there, though they don't have many resources for materials -- were absolutely eager to collaborate with libraries in the United States and elsewhere to get their new digital resources cataloged, distributed, put online in local systems around the world. They are proud of their work, enthusiastic about collaborating and expanding their operations, and they recognize the uniqueness of the collections that they do have. As I was listening to the LAUC presentations this afternoon, I was thinking about the BibAlex folks and their work, and thinking: we should be that eager too, to build a new Library of Alexandria for all of us.
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