Genie says thanks to all attendee’s – biggest attendance ever.
Presentations will all be available on the website by next week, also some of the Int’l ILLiad Conference updates will be included on Atlas’ Facebook, twitter and flickr. "The official Twitter Hashtag for the conference is #illiad10 so feel free to follow along or add your own input if you're attending. We'll link to a stream of those tweets from the conference web site as well once the conference starts. And don't forget you can follow Atlas Systems on Twitter - we're @atlassystems . If you have any questions about the web site or the conference, send us an email at illiadconference@atlas-sys.com."
Other news; Atlas is hiring 2 positions; a developer and support person.
ILLiad 8
Old version had a few troubles...
People said ILLiad 8.0 was slow – opening a request in 7.4 fast, but 8, takes 10 seconds. It wasn’t a server or firewall issue, it was a layer around the server.
So Atlas fixed all that and it is as fast or faster than 7.4.
Reviewing cool new features; looking up users, viewing both borrowing and document delivery requests, and more.
Documentation site: ILLiad 8.0.6.0 release notes with lots of details.
But wait, it gets much better than that...
Atlas added a new feature, it came in the last update as new scripts that allow you to open a browser in ILLiad, and run a web service. What do these look like?
They add new tabs in ILLiad, along side the OCLC and holdings tab, the script tabs included in the recent ILLiad update include a Google and Google Scholar service for articles, and Amazon for loans. Actually, with a little simple programming, you can create actions to do with web services (within the ILLiad client)
Cool feature is that these web services can import data into ILLiad, I know - while looking at Amazon – click on Import, and the script can pull in the price – you pick field to fill.
These are extremely powerful new tools that can expand what ILLiad does – streamline the processing by automatically looking up the citation in various web services; Amazon, Google, Bing, Web OPAC (for call # and location), UPS, Netflix, Dissertations Express, and more...
Web OPAC searching – script if your ILS’s Z39.50 isn’t reliable.
Article requests now automatically have Google, Google Search, and can have your Open URL look up as threaded searches (no delays in a request opening) That means you can fill borrowing, document delivery, and lending requests for articles even easier now - no need to look up manually.
Shipments tab – UPS Tracking code allows you a quick look up for an item that was shipped.
Atlas will soon post the documentation to activate these scripts, and some instructions. More on Lua: http://www.lua.org/
Also, Atlas will create some Atlas approved folder for lua scripts - ideally the community shares them. We can share these to really make powerful service extensions and automate so many staff functions; manual searches in Amazon, Google, and digital library (output or input)?
There was much amazement at how seamless this all worked in ILLiad, but it also was amazing to see how people were struck with realizing they were given powerful keys to unlocking many manual web services workflows that complicated their lives. This changes the playing field for ILL - it is rapidly moving into the service request business in libraries - a request could be either an ILL or acquisitions request, but it also helps process that into reserves, digital libraries (receiving and input stages), and much more. Kudos to the Atlas Systems folks for their creativity - ILLiad was always flexible, but now, easily adaptive to web services makes our lives so much easier, with potential to transform the very nature of library functions; acquisitions, etc. Next week, we want to create a netflix tab, and a OCLC connexion tab, maybe a course management tab - wow, so much fun work ahead after a wonderful conference is refreshing - fun homework - let's change what and how we do things with cool lua scripts on tab at a time.
Friday, March 26, 2010
OCLC Update ILLiad Conference – Katie Birch
Lots of updates on software, product developments, and what next ahead...
Introducing the OCLC team
Tony Melvyn – WCRS product manager
Christa Starck – Navigator product manager
Jennifer Corsi – Policies Directory product manager
Ed Davidson – Navigator/VDX
John Trares – ILLiad hosting
Julie Nye – Analyst
Katie Birch – Delivery Services portfolio manager
Policies Directory upgrade:
• More than 10 fixes based on feedback.
• 3 webinars – 725 attendees
• “Real-time” supplier status in testing. (Real-ish time) :-)
OCLC is working to help Document Suppliers in their changes:
• CAI – InfoTrieve – seamless to users, CAI no longer uses IFM in January, but they returned to IFM soon after. Official transfer Aug. 1, 2010. Retaining CAI as an OCLC symbol.
• British Library: 4 symbols; UKM, BRI, BLSTP, BLNPL – but BRI is the supplying symbol.
• BSB – GEBAY; Bavarian State Library; pilot ended in November, continuing as full lender.
360 degrees of Library Cooperation
• Greening ILL – Dennis Massie (former RLG group) sponsored a report: http://hangingtogether.org/?p=767 http://www.oclc.org/research/events/2010-01-15a.pdf
• May 6 webinar, http://tinyurl.com/ye5g5tl
Resource Sharing Survey – http://tinyurl.com/yc7yjlu
Feedback for creating a best practices program...
Best Practices – resource sharing and delivery services: http://tinyurl.com/yes8onp
Jennifer Corse is the contact for that project.
Delivery services survey results; 2/3 found home delivery somewhat valuable – survey from the Montana Direct and Better World Books OCLC Direct pilots. Working on a contract with Better World Books contract for a May install.
May – WCRS ILLiad sometime later
BETTER WORLD BOOKS
Loan: Returnables
• QUICK: New books $25, 1.7 million holdings, 2K unique items (no other libraries have this) IFM participants.
• BWBKS: All paperbacks & used books, $15, 150K holdings, 45 unique items. IFM participants.
Worldcat Direct requires a signature agreement at the policies directory. ILL Staff can select WorlCat Direct. Workflow:
1. BWB mails books to patron’s address (home, office, etc.)
2. Patron and library receive an email indicating that BWB has supplied the item.
3. Patron receives a prepaid return mailer supplied to the patron. 45 day loans.
4. Insert with every book indicating to the patron that the item has been supplied by their library, and details about how to purchase.
Interested: contact Tony Melvyn
Direct Request for Articles
• Enhanced workflow for licensed journal articles
• New OCLC Knowledge Base integrated with Worldcat
o Data ingest being developed for SFX and Serials Solutions initially
o Used to configure links to licensed articles
• New License Manager (L-MAN)
• WorldCat Resource Sharing and ILLiad
• No additional subscription required
Currently, Knowledge Base under test at OCLC, turn it on under WorldCat Resource sharing – preferences:
• No – not set up knowledge base, only want print journals.
• E within group – custom holdings – 1st group, E & P within group
• E across group – custom holdings (all groups), ignore P – E is most important
Borrowing Locally held...
Phase 1: know that you own it, route to review file.
Phase 2: know that you own it, route to review file, add a deep link provided to that article.
Features:
• Requests include all OCLC#s (FRBR)
• Deep link to article
• Multiple collections and holdings for various sources
Lending request...
Phase 1: ILL OK, NO ILL
Phase 2: add silent to the terms
Phase 2: add instructions “non-profit only”, print only, etc.
Phase 1: May 2010 - pilot libraries
Phase 2: August 2010
WCRS and ILLiad available at the same time.
Thank you to...: IDS Project, Ohio State U., Penn State Univ, Univ. of Chicago, North Carolina State Univ., etc.
Projects in Planning
• Policy directory: internal web service to enable view by ILLiad, VDX, and Navigator to pull data from the policy directory in those applications. Regional offices will contact libraries without entries to use a new form to add data via a web form.
• Deflection enhancements – IFM deflection, on order item deflection, LHR deflection
o How do our products work with Andrew Pace’s Web Scale Management system? Deflection service.
Introducing the OCLC team
Tony Melvyn – WCRS product manager
Christa Starck – Navigator product manager
Jennifer Corsi – Policies Directory product manager
Ed Davidson – Navigator/VDX
John Trares – ILLiad hosting
Julie Nye – Analyst
Katie Birch – Delivery Services portfolio manager
Policies Directory upgrade:
• More than 10 fixes based on feedback.
• 3 webinars – 725 attendees
• “Real-time” supplier status in testing. (Real-ish time) :-)
OCLC is working to help Document Suppliers in their changes:
• CAI – InfoTrieve – seamless to users, CAI no longer uses IFM in January, but they returned to IFM soon after. Official transfer Aug. 1, 2010. Retaining CAI as an OCLC symbol.
• British Library: 4 symbols; UKM, BRI, BLSTP, BLNPL – but BRI is the supplying symbol.
• BSB – GEBAY; Bavarian State Library; pilot ended in November, continuing as full lender.
360 degrees of Library Cooperation
• Greening ILL – Dennis Massie (former RLG group) sponsored a report: http://hangingtogether.org/?p=767 http://www.oclc.org/research/events/2010-01-15a.pdf
• May 6 webinar, http://tinyurl.com/ye5g5tl
Resource Sharing Survey – http://tinyurl.com/yc7yjlu
Feedback for creating a best practices program...
Best Practices – resource sharing and delivery services: http://tinyurl.com/yes8onp
Jennifer Corse is the contact for that project.
Delivery services survey results; 2/3 found home delivery somewhat valuable – survey from the Montana Direct and Better World Books OCLC Direct pilots. Working on a contract with Better World Books contract for a May install.
May – WCRS ILLiad sometime later
BETTER WORLD BOOKS
Loan: Returnables
• QUICK: New books $25, 1.7 million holdings, 2K unique items (no other libraries have this) IFM participants.
• BWBKS: All paperbacks & used books, $15, 150K holdings, 45 unique items. IFM participants.
Worldcat Direct requires a signature agreement at the policies directory. ILL Staff can select WorlCat Direct. Workflow:
1. BWB mails books to patron’s address (home, office, etc.)
2. Patron and library receive an email indicating that BWB has supplied the item.
3. Patron receives a prepaid return mailer supplied to the patron. 45 day loans.
4. Insert with every book indicating to the patron that the item has been supplied by their library, and details about how to purchase.
Interested: contact Tony Melvyn
Direct Request for Articles
• Enhanced workflow for licensed journal articles
• New OCLC Knowledge Base integrated with Worldcat
o Data ingest being developed for SFX and Serials Solutions initially
o Used to configure links to licensed articles
• New License Manager (L-MAN)
• WorldCat Resource Sharing and ILLiad
• No additional subscription required
Currently, Knowledge Base under test at OCLC, turn it on under WorldCat Resource sharing – preferences:
• No – not set up knowledge base, only want print journals.
• E within group – custom holdings – 1st group, E & P within group
• E across group – custom holdings (all groups), ignore P – E is most important
Borrowing Locally held...
Phase 1: know that you own it, route to review file.
Phase 2: know that you own it, route to review file, add a deep link provided to that article.
Features:
• Requests include all OCLC#s (FRBR)
• Deep link to article
• Multiple collections and holdings for various sources
Lending request...
Phase 1: ILL OK, NO ILL
Phase 2: add silent to the terms
Phase 2: add instructions “non-profit only”, print only, etc.
Phase 1: May 2010 - pilot libraries
Phase 2: August 2010
WCRS and ILLiad available at the same time.
Thank you to...: IDS Project, Ohio State U., Penn State Univ, Univ. of Chicago, North Carolina State Univ., etc.
Projects in Planning
• Policy directory: internal web service to enable view by ILLiad, VDX, and Navigator to pull data from the policy directory in those applications. Regional offices will contact libraries without entries to use a new form to add data via a web form.
• Deflection enhancements – IFM deflection, on order item deflection, LHR deflection
o How do our products work with Andrew Pace’s Web Scale Management system? Deflection service.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Wondering A’loud: Visioning the Future of Resource Sharing and Delivery – Glenn Sandberg & Paul Doty
Glenn Sandberg says...
“The place to go, when you need to know” library slogan at Rutgers University Libraries.
How do you expand your services – and save cost – do more for less...
ILL should become the public face of the University libraries – raise your profile. It is important for people to understand what we do. We do a lot of work – we are busy.
Aug. 2007 Rutgers launched ILLiad – went to free ILL service to their users, that increased the work. Feb. ‘09 900 article requests filled, Feb ‘10 1,900 article requests filled. We now can scan our print collection and post to ILLiad and deliver to users fast – it is highly valued by users, they don’t want to see it go away.
Jobs are changing – reserve processing is changing as online content and online courses change the nature of the service – as these decrease over time, staffing can change.
Remaining relevant – we have done that.
• What are you willing to do for people? How far are you willing to go?
Delivering books to faculty? Purchase items? How far will you go?
• Free digitizing of articles from print holdings in remote locations/Annex only.
Paul Doty
eBooks and ILL – public service as the public face of the library.
Google Books: discusses that Google isn’t our enemy, Google is extremely useful for libraries. Libraries succeed when all of us are considered library users.
Collection is an integral part of the library – the collection is the face of the library. ILL makes that face malleable to users. In making a collection, a library identity – library collections are a service role to be made useful to a body of users.
Google Books and terms of the settlement – Karen Coyle, Robert Denton, implications on libraries. Printed book is the thing that gives users the most rights; DRM may seriously restrict the future of platform and user services.
Can ILL, by virtue of getting this material, be the agency that comes down on the side of the user – defending their needs and control?
Accessing print books rather than digital content – libraries as readers’ refuge. We are fostering a community of readers. Is the print book a better technology for delivering a sustained body of literature reading? Print value: First sale rights – easy to sell a book, but do you see used software stores? Attendees discuss the merits and challenges of ebooks.
Textbooks – what can we do to serve our users obtain textbooks? Leasing, cost, borrowing, work with publishers, there must be a strategy that can make sense. Cooperative collection development? Publishers sell loose-leaf (50% reduced cost), textbook donations, state of Maryland – asked Universities and Colleges look at what is purchased; if only 2-3 chapters, don’t require new editions.
Reading digital text and print text – future library collections? How do people read anymore?
Discussion of future of reading and textbooks.
Cyril’s note: Why do we buy so much used-less print reference collection when users want and need textbooks? We borrow so many textbooks for students at such a high cost, why not buy textbooks and place on Reserves instead? We need to work with faculty producing the print scholarship that will not be used by their future students?
“The place to go, when you need to know” library slogan at Rutgers University Libraries.
How do you expand your services – and save cost – do more for less...
ILL should become the public face of the University libraries – raise your profile. It is important for people to understand what we do. We do a lot of work – we are busy.
Aug. 2007 Rutgers launched ILLiad – went to free ILL service to their users, that increased the work. Feb. ‘09 900 article requests filled, Feb ‘10 1,900 article requests filled. We now can scan our print collection and post to ILLiad and deliver to users fast – it is highly valued by users, they don’t want to see it go away.
Jobs are changing – reserve processing is changing as online content and online courses change the nature of the service – as these decrease over time, staffing can change.
Remaining relevant – we have done that.
• What are you willing to do for people? How far are you willing to go?
Delivering books to faculty? Purchase items? How far will you go?
• Free digitizing of articles from print holdings in remote locations/Annex only.
Paul Doty
eBooks and ILL – public service as the public face of the library.
Google Books: discusses that Google isn’t our enemy, Google is extremely useful for libraries. Libraries succeed when all of us are considered library users.
Collection is an integral part of the library – the collection is the face of the library. ILL makes that face malleable to users. In making a collection, a library identity – library collections are a service role to be made useful to a body of users.
Google Books and terms of the settlement – Karen Coyle, Robert Denton, implications on libraries. Printed book is the thing that gives users the most rights; DRM may seriously restrict the future of platform and user services.
Can ILL, by virtue of getting this material, be the agency that comes down on the side of the user – defending their needs and control?
Accessing print books rather than digital content – libraries as readers’ refuge. We are fostering a community of readers. Is the print book a better technology for delivering a sustained body of literature reading? Print value: First sale rights – easy to sell a book, but do you see used software stores? Attendees discuss the merits and challenges of ebooks.
Textbooks – what can we do to serve our users obtain textbooks? Leasing, cost, borrowing, work with publishers, there must be a strategy that can make sense. Cooperative collection development? Publishers sell loose-leaf (50% reduced cost), textbook donations, state of Maryland – asked Universities and Colleges look at what is purchased; if only 2-3 chapters, don’t require new editions.
Reading digital text and print text – future library collections? How do people read anymore?
Discussion of future of reading and textbooks.
Cyril’s note: Why do we buy so much used-less print reference collection when users want and need textbooks? We borrow so many textbooks for students at such a high cost, why not buy textbooks and place on Reserves instead? We need to work with faculty producing the print scholarship that will not be used by their future students?
Free for All! Interlibrary Loan and Open Access – Tina Baich
Open Access Defined; Internet based, Free content, Free of most copyright restrictions
Does open access make scholarly communications less expensive and increase research impact?
Tina’s delicious tool: http://delicious.com/ILLFindingAids, in particular: http://delicious.com/ILLFindingAids/openaccess
False expectations: If more content is freely available, ILL requests will go down.
Users aren’t finding these options, so ILL is locating more of them.
Received about 400 requests / month for materials what we own, so if they aren’t finding those, they aren’t finding materials on the open web.
Borrowing requests fill about 10-14K / year
Open Access Requests @ IUP
Quarterly data shows roughly 8-70 requests.
ETD’s: Electronic Theses and Dissertations
OA Theses requests @ IUP: sources vary widely, not all found using Google.
Sources:
• Canada Theses Portal (interestingly, all the Canadian theses were found in institutional repositories, and not the Canada Theses Portal); CARL open archives metadata harvester.
• Ethos: British Library Electronic Theses Online Services http://ethos.bl.uk
People who use this, the end-user, must sign off on the request to protect copyright.
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations; 88 institutions: www.ndltd.org/
210 Open Access articles since Feb. 2009, distribution:
Predominately Freely access science journals, DOAJ, HighWire Press (not all is free: , J-STAGE are predominate.
PubMed Central: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/index.html
Rarely does she go to these sites because Serials Solutions indexes them and makes DOAJ / OA titles available by turning on the “Freely Accessible...” list of sources.
AO Articles not found in Serials Solutions, found on the web – wide and varied, found by a Google Search. Persee is an interesting European collection of OA journals, in particular French titles. Also the Free Library by Farlex which contains about 19M articles and books.
Example:
9 Google books found, 5 Internet Archive, 1 other websites.
OA Gov Doc requests @ IUP: 6 government websites, 2 Google books.
New FDSYS search system, to replace GPO Access: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/
OA Conference Paper Requests @ IUP; all academic 9 http://www.allacademic.com/, conference related websites 5, author web page 2, defense tech. Info. Center 2, IR: 1
OpenDoar and OAIster are general resources.
Tracking the OA Requests
•Establish a lender address: add address – create symbol OPEN = open access and save
•Create a custom email and email routing rule – finishes as Delivered to Web in Borrowing – so they post PDF and send URL.
Lender and System ID – insert lender and change system ID to OTH.
Charles Bailey open access bibliography: http://digital-scholarship.org/oab/oab.htm
Does open access make scholarly communications less expensive and increase research impact?
Tina’s delicious tool: http://delicious.com/ILLFindingAids, in particular: http://delicious.com/ILLFindingAids/openaccess
False expectations: If more content is freely available, ILL requests will go down.
Users aren’t finding these options, so ILL is locating more of them.
Received about 400 requests / month for materials what we own, so if they aren’t finding those, they aren’t finding materials on the open web.
Borrowing requests fill about 10-14K / year
Open Access Requests @ IUP
Quarterly data shows roughly 8-70 requests.
ETD’s: Electronic Theses and Dissertations
OA Theses requests @ IUP: sources vary widely, not all found using Google.
Sources:
• Canada Theses Portal (interestingly, all the Canadian theses were found in institutional repositories, and not the Canada Theses Portal); CARL open archives metadata harvester.
• Ethos: British Library Electronic Theses Online Services http://ethos.bl.uk
People who use this, the end-user, must sign off on the request to protect copyright.
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations; 88 institutions: www.ndltd.org/
210 Open Access articles since Feb. 2009, distribution:
Predominately Freely access science journals, DOAJ, HighWire Press (not all is free: , J-STAGE are predominate.
PubMed Central: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/index.html
Rarely does she go to these sites because Serials Solutions indexes them and makes DOAJ / OA titles available by turning on the “Freely Accessible...” list of sources.
AO Articles not found in Serials Solutions, found on the web – wide and varied, found by a Google Search. Persee is an interesting European collection of OA journals, in particular French titles. Also the Free Library by Farlex which contains about 19M articles and books.
Example:
9 Google books found, 5 Internet Archive, 1 other websites.
OA Gov Doc requests @ IUP: 6 government websites, 2 Google books.
New FDSYS search system, to replace GPO Access: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/
OA Conference Paper Requests @ IUP; all academic 9 http://www.allacademic.com/, conference related websites 5, author web page 2, defense tech. Info. Center 2, IR: 1
OpenDoar and OAIster are general resources.
Tracking the OA Requests
•Establish a lender address: add address – create symbol OPEN = open access and save
•Create a custom email and email routing rule – finishes as Delivered to Web in Borrowing – so they post PDF and send URL.
Lender and System ID – insert lender and change system ID to OTH.
Charles Bailey open access bibliography: http://digital-scholarship.org/oab/oab.htm
Getting to know all about you... ILLiad User Demographics by Stephanie Spires
Getting to know all about you... ILLiad User Demographics – Stephanie Spires
Users Table
Every registered user has a record in the table; each record has a unique username, lots of fields for each user; status, department, street, email addresses, preferences, etc.
Getting to know them – means finding about them – their registration data and their use stats.
User table, transactions, and tracking table
Users are associated with Borrowing and Document Delivery transactions by username – each record has an associated username that links back to users table; each username has only one record.
Stephanie share the ILLiad diagram – useful, but it would be nice to update this and add the Worldcat Info table.
http://www.atlas-sys.com/documentation/illiad/content/ILLiadDatabaseDiagram.pdf
History and Tracking are similar, but history includes billing and supplier data.
Tracking is a short table, only TN#, DateTime, ChangedTo, ChangedBy
Transactions table is a big table; TransactionDate is last revision of the TransactionStatus.
From Tracking, you could see the changes in transaction for date/time stamps.
User Table provides all the demographic data that we are focusing on – looking at their use; Transactions table is important. Users and Transactions are matched by Username.
Using ILLiad 8 – search requests interface is on the ribbon.
Tip: Cleared column: B is cleared, BX is blocked.
PivotTable with exported Excel from ILLiad makes it easy to see the count of users by department or status. Who is using our services?
Search – custom search – custom request search
• Add a condition about Tracking.ChangedTo = Submitted by Customer
• Add a condition about Tracking.DateTime = Is between -select date range-
Custom searches can be saved. Idea – let’s share our cool custom searches by saving IRRP’s (saved – add them to the workflow toolkit) http://toolkit.idsproject.org/
Users Table
Every registered user has a record in the table; each record has a unique username, lots of fields for each user; status, department, street, email addresses, preferences, etc.
Getting to know them – means finding about them – their registration data and their use stats.
User table, transactions, and tracking table
Users are associated with Borrowing and Document Delivery transactions by username – each record has an associated username that links back to users table; each username has only one record.
Stephanie share the ILLiad diagram – useful, but it would be nice to update this and add the Worldcat Info table.
http://www.atlas-sys.com/documentation/illiad/content/ILLiadDatabaseDiagram.pdf
History and Tracking are similar, but history includes billing and supplier data.
Tracking is a short table, only TN#, DateTime, ChangedTo, ChangedBy
Transactions table is a big table; TransactionDate is last revision of the TransactionStatus.
From Tracking, you could see the changes in transaction for date/time stamps.
User Table provides all the demographic data that we are focusing on – looking at their use; Transactions table is important. Users and Transactions are matched by Username.
Using ILLiad 8 – search requests interface is on the ribbon.
Tip: Cleared column: B is cleared, BX is blocked.
PivotTable with exported Excel from ILLiad makes it easy to see the count of users by department or status. Who is using our services?
Search – custom search – custom request search
• Add a condition about Tracking.ChangedTo = Submitted by Customer
• Add a condition about Tracking.DateTime = Is between -select date range-
Custom searches can be saved. Idea – let’s share our cool custom searches by saving IRRP’s (saved – add them to the workflow toolkit) http://toolkit.idsproject.org/
Libraries in the Cloud: Sharing Resources at Web Scale – Chip Nilges
Genie’s welcome - ILLiad10# is the twitter hash tag, feedback is important.
Genie’s story; Chip been at OCLC since 1994. Karen Oye was giving a presentation to OCLC about ILLiad. Chip asked if ILLiad was too good to be true “nothing is that good,” Genie admits – yes, ILLiad is that good.
User’s dilemma – confusing paths to information landscape – where is the library in this picture. Getting the library in the users’ workflow is important.
Cloud computing – pinnacle of hype-curve – computing platform – web-based applications with shared data and services.
KPMG report:
Infrastructure: Amazon web services
Platform: Google, Facebook
Applications: Sales force, Netsuite
? missed this slide, but the slides are available from ILLiad’s website.
Web scale value proposition – according to Amazon, cloud computing is a market shift away from % resources in infrastructure to initiative.
- Data is the Intel inside
- Shared platforms create network effects
- Syndication creates web reach
From What is Web 2.0 – Tim O’Reilly
Circulation / ILL: 4.9B
OPAC searches 105.6B
Annual transactions 5,265 transactions / second – pulling these transactions within a handful of commodity servers is possible.
Help libraries to deliver their full capacity to the user at the point of need on the Web, in a manner that’s consistent with user expectations shaped by global Web brands.
Chip has nice slides showing timeline of library services 70s, 80s, 90s, etc.
- Data – syndication – services
- Data: Make data work – available.
- Worldcat has 169.9+ million records, 1.5+ billion holdings.
- Unicode / languages supported
- 34 national libraries are loading records into worldcat.
- Collective collection – integrating data that describes content;
- Licensed digital content; databases, journal articles – Informatics; about 2M ebook records.
- Special collections; archives & manuscripts, institutional repositories, theses & dissertations
- Local library content being digitized; mass digitization projects, Google Books, Hathi Trust, Library digitized content. Worldcat synchronizes 12 million titles scanned from library collections. Archive Grid – database describing primary source materials and indexed in worldcat.org; OAIster moved into OCLC.
- Registry growth 2007-2009: 70K records to 130K records.
- Cataloging authors and researchers – OCLC Identities: http://orlabs.oclc.org/Identities/
- Over 9K registered affiliates through our self-service searchbox and open linking... Google, Yahoo, Bing, EasyBib, abebooks.com, Baidu, LibraryThing, etc.
- Example of finding a worldcat record from google – not high up in ranking because data does not contain as much review content as other sites <- interesting dilemma for library systems – note; we should be able to work with our users in their workflow to help reviews; i.e. promote using links, programs, etc.
- EasyBib www.easybib.com/ – helps students format references – they integrated Worldcat API.
Worldcat traffic: mobile 1%, direct access to worldcat.org 11%, worldcat local 34%, search engines 30%, etc.
- End user services; web scale home delivery, survey results; lots of favorable survey results showing users interested in this, and even willing to pay for the cost of shipping, many using credit cards.
- Get it from a library using Amazon makes sense.
- Linking librarians in answer services – identifying authoritative resources to use, finding appropriate materials, etc.
- If you can have one library card that could use at all participating libraries? About 65% say a global library card would be useful.
Rising sun – oops, I stand corrected, the Earth is spinning
On the way to a lovely breakfast, it was nice to see the sun rising. Breakfast time discussion is always a great time to find out what attendees are hoping for when conferencing. At this table, two ILL librarians are attending interested in learning how to better utilize ILLiad, one is especially interested in how to customize the workflow, and another is interested in using ODBC connections to query the ILLiad database to develop reports. Implementing odyssey using a copier was discussed.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Dinner with Dan Specht
Seafood and wine with Dan who struggled but successfully mastered eating pho with chop sticks; little more could do justice to a great dinner with many of the IDS Project, Dan Specht, Stephanie Spires, Christian Dupont (Atlas), Chuck (CCC), Jon (Nylink). Great discussions, ideas, funny conversations that don't belong in Cyril's blog; I will later include a photo of Dan for everyone's benefit.
Ed Rivenburgh (Director of SUNY Geneseo Milne Library & IDS Project) did a great job of introducing the IDS Project members, in particular, the Technology Advisory Group: http://idsproject.org/About/TAG.aspx - a fascinating group of very successful technologists from other libraries that work together to solve major challenges faced by IDS Project libraries, and sharing their solutions with other libraries. Sharing expertise in well defined projects that solve problems seems to work - albeit, it's a lot of work - no pun intended, but we are very impressed with this group (and that isn't the wine talking).
In the northwest, a similar kind of group is working with OCLC on the Navigator project. Seems like a strategy worth it's weight in gold. If these kind of inter-technology project teams work effectively, how do we support them? how do we connect the various groups? Developer networks get the programming talents talking, but team projects are distinct at crossing institutions and developing scalable successes. OK, time for sleep - thanks for dinner Dan.
Aquarium – ILL among fishes and dragons
The pre-conference social sponsored by Copyright Clearance Center at the Aquarium was very fun. http://www.virginiaaquarium.com/Pages/default.aspx Took a trolley there and the ILLers had the run of the place, among the fishes and dragons: http://www.virginiaaquarium.com/animals-exhibits/pages/komodo-dragons.aspx
- People are using the workflow toolkit http://toolkit.idsproject.org/ and finding solutions and optimizing tips useful – COOL.
- Discussion of poor courier performance – what solution if the vendor is a sole supplier to an RFP? One radical idea is to get a statewide subscription to Google Books, and then use that to build competition to poor performing courier. Anyone have ideas to help a state that would like their courier performance improve?
- Interest expressed in having IDS Project grow outside the state, or establish regional IDS’ – Maryland IDS and Kudzu/ASERL groups are using some of the IDS tools – but what other relationships exist.
ILLers have a unique and tremendous opportunity to transform the discussion across libraries and within libraries; centered on user services, fulfilling information needs by employing strategies that leverage data, resources, and a powerful network of strong partners - each hour at conferences like this, we have precious moments to work out collaborative solutions to the challenges we face, to be excited about the great successes we are all achieving (11M filled requests 2009 ALA), to establish the relationships to build stronger ties in an amazing network, unlike any other.
Special ILLiad meeting - an informal discussion group
Great discussion, about 25 people participated in an informal afternoon group meeting designed to discuss ILL’s several key issues about the future of resource sharing; pay-per-view articles, direct request for articles, and lending e-books.
What makes these issues key?
Cyril opened the discussion with asking attendees who buys articles directly from publisher websites – almost everyone raised their hands, none seemed happy with their workflow; it’s obvious that ILL workflow is changing rapidly as emergent sources mature; purchasing prices are at times better than borrowing and/or copyright royalty, color PDFs, etc.
Cyril shared that years ago he set up the Interlibrary Loan delicious website to include pay-per-view article suppliers, but in order to really integrate and streamline the workflow; a registry for pay-per-view websites is needed. As a group we discussed the criteria and workflow elements for integrating these sources, including the need for data such as price, delivery format, etc. An interesting issue came up that publisher idiosyncrasies exist – Wiley will subscribe you to the journal if you purchase a set number of articles online; other issues include challenges of registry and account management.
OCLC Direct Request for Articles
Great news from Katie Birch, OCLC – OCLC’s team is about to start beta testing their unmediated article request system that uses a knowledge base that works similar to IDS Project’s ALIAS http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/200929.htm; it will incorporate intelligent detect electronic holdings with ILL rights, and print holdings, and develop lender strings like direct request for loans; it will also allow libraries to load ERM data; ILL OK, ILL NO, and Silent (for local interpretation). Phase 1 testing is set for May, with Phase 2 testing in August; and this service will be offered at no additional cost (cool!). OCLC is attempting to work with SFX and Serials Solutions to make it easier to ingest journal article data for libraries to use this service. Hope everyone works well together, because we need all these projects to run smoothly to smooth out our workflow; and unmediated requesting of articles is GREAT!
Ebook lending
Perhaps one of the most uncertain ILL workflow is lending ebooks. Cyril led a discussion of the topic and shared screenshots of an evolving process developed to handle Springer ebooks that have ILL rights, as well as, workflow details used by Colorado Alliance, and Oregon State University. It was obvious that the attendees all feel challenged by ebook lending, and that no one had a best practice; similar to electronic journals – attendees stated the importance of securing ILL rights with ebooks – even though the process to lend them seems clunky, although not compared to paging, mailing and receiving returns. Attendees recommended talking with everyone; acquisitions and electronic resource librarians, publishers, etc. to work on this. The reason this is important, most packages, and Google Books subscription, do not allow ILL Rights – so more and more monographs are locked out from resource sharing. It seems obvious the problem is growing; more libraries are deflecting these, some books are ebook only, and the question is how to handle the workflow.
Question: Direct Request normalizes to print not the electronic book record? Because it is ISBN normalized to LC record, normalizing doesn’t always direct ILL requests to print record.
Consensus recommendation: educate ourselves with ILL rights on ebook packages.
Meeting open forum discussions:
- Serial cut impact on ILL
- Big packages are next to cut, this is problematic for ILL; we need to talk with vendors and make titles a la carte in packages.
- Assessment of increases and decreases in ILL – what is causing trends that libraries are seeing?
- Question: Should we continue to use the print record and not utilize the electronic holdings record in OCLC? Answer depends – check the cancellation reasons for requests placed on electronic holdings – are they being deflected by your partners? Highly likely, so depends on the data.
- Some libraries are adding text to make users place requests thoughtfully / judiciously: “ILL requests generally cost between $5 to $50 / item, and is paid for your research and educational purposes by your library.” Discussion revolved around the desire for education and transparency, versus the need to not deter researchers.
For more information about the special ILLiad meeting - just send cyril@geneseo.edu an email for the brief minutes and handouts.
To share your ideas for less clunky workflow for pay-per-view articles and lending ebooks - please add your comments - thanks.
ILL Mentor & Training - IDS Mentor meeting
Library to Library Mentoring discussion
Similar to WebEx www.webex.com/, the IDS Project mentors use GoToAssist: http://www.gotoassist.com to provide online support for libraries implementing or troubleshooting various ILL systems; ILLiad, ALIAS, GIST, etc. This may be leading to some service level dependency – what expectations are there during mentoring and following mentoring, expectations for mentee – graduating the process = ?
- Local customization of ILLiad settings
- Local web or word template customizations,
Besides IDS Project, there is the community ShareILL: http://www.shareill.org, Web Junction: http://resourcesharing.webjunction.org/ and RUSA STARS free workshops “ILL: Everything you always wanted to know”: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/rusa/sections/stars/publications/index.cfm
Tim Bowersox, coordinator of the IDS Project mentors is talking about developing a summer mentoring institute: meaningful and professional development training opportunity.
ILLiad International Conference - I'm here, I'm here
It is great to be here in Virginia Beach.
Dan Specht reminded me a few times already, get that blog going, people want to know what is going on at the ILLiad International Conference: https://www.atlas-sys.com/conference/ConferenceSessions.aspx
This is not light duty, because I really can't be in every room watching everything, and although it will be my goal to listen to all the 125+ attendees, I doubt I can drink enough coffee to keep up with everything going on in Resource Sharing, ILLiad, and ILLiad libraries in 2 days; but here goes...
Just had lunch with Christian Dupont, Atlas – he was a great colleague I met while working at University of Virginia – he was the Director of Special Collections, and later joined Atlas to create Aeon: http://www.atlas-sys.com/products/aeon/ an exciting special collections circulation and request system that has a lot of similarities with ILLiad.
The lunch conversation was great – talking about the relationship between special collections and interlibrary loan – we talked about current efforts of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section: http://www.rbms.info/ they are starting the revision of the Guidelines for the Interlibrary Loan of Rare and Unique Materials: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/rareguidelines.cfm, also RLG efforts to share special collections: http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/sharing/default.htm
What is the future of special collection sharing? How can exhibits be shared, created as cooperative collections? How will the community of resource sharing and special collections and archives work together? Will we tether systems in ways that make library collections and exhibits more powerful and practical for users, for groups, for research? Great lunch talk over crispy scallops - thank you Christian.
Now attending the IDS Project mentor http://idsproject.org/About/Mentors.aspx meeting – discussion of mentoring visits with libraries – updating how libraries are mentored into optimizing ILLiad, using ALIAS, and other services, etc. The interesting part about mentor program is that a group of libraries are volunteering to drive/fly all over New York to help implement ILLiad with optimized settings, activate various customizations and services, and develop workflow toolkit entries. http://toolkit.idsproject.org/
Any other ILL Mentor programs out there? Please let us know.
Great discussion of experimenting with new models of training and service support – libraries working well together is in everyone’s interest. Cool effort.
Next is a special ILLiad project meeting – ad hoc discussion group that will talk about lending ebooks and how to incorporate pay-per-view articles in ILL workflow. So many great libraries and projects – kudos to all the ILLers for transforming library service.
More soon
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)