Library in Transition

"Established in 1997, the California Digital Library has a wholly digital charter and two complementary but distinct roles. As an arm of systemwide library planning, CDL supports the University of California libraries in their mission of providing access to the world's knowledge for the UC campuses and the communities they serve. In so doing, it directly supports UC's mission of teaching, research, and public service. The CDL also maintains its own distinctive programs emphasizing the development and management of digital collections, innovation in scholarly publishing, and the long-term preservation of digital information."

1995 article: "WHEN CALIFORNIA State University administrators drew up plans for their newest campus, scheduled to open this fall at the old Fort Ord site in Monterey Bay, one building was conspicuous absent from their blueprints: the library. But as Barry Munitz, chancellor of the 22-campus system, sees it, why bother wasting all that money on bricks and mortar and expensive tomes when it could be better spent on technology for getting information via computer? "You simply don't have to build a traditional library these days," Munitz says." [of course, CSUMB did build a traditional library...]

"When CSUMB was founded in 1994, the initial intent articulated by then-CSU Chancellor Barry Munitz was to create a virtual library, full of electronic content, that students could access from anywhere. While that 1994 view of information delivery assumed that traditional information resources would disappear or significantly diminish, print publications and other physical media such as DVDs have, in fact, increased annually over the past decade. Thus, ten years later, the CSUMB Library effectively delivers both electronic information and a significant component of traditional print and multimedia from inadequate space in half of a small former military building located off the main campus quad."

Contents: Acknowledgment 1 Phoenix Public Library , librarianship , form follows function FUNCTION Mission People and Places 13 Beijing University , Shanghai , Carnegie library The British Library 21 British Library , British Museum , Euston Road Constructing the New Shanghai Library 32 Shanghai Library , think tank , Yu Li The San Antonio Public Library 41 San Antonio , Ricardo Legorreta , Milton Babbitt The Construction of the New Peking University Library 53 Tsinghua University , Project 211 , Beijing more » FORM Arranging Services in Space 75 IUPUI , cognitive space , HKUST The Johnson Center Library at George Mason University 83 George Mason University , self-checkout , food court Integrating Mass Communications 105 Kapiolani Library , Diamond Head , Library's Library Services at California State University Monterey 122 California State University , Fort Ord , Monterey Bay A Library for the 21st Century 138 Computer clusters , Thomas Moser , Indianapolis TABLE OF CONTENTS 149 Phoenix Public Library , architect , Marzynski Partner in Education 168 Dartmouth College , Information Age , library science The Walsh Library Seton Hall University 176 Seton Hall University , South Orange , Walsh Library SIGNIFICANCE Symbols and Emblems 189 retrocon , Bibliotheque Nationale , Le Figaro The Bibliotheque Francois Mitterrand of the Bibliotheque 197 Bibliotheque nationale , Tolbiac , Dominique Perrault A National Library 231 Dominique Perrault , Francois Mitterrand , Nationale de France Rational Space 253 IUPUI , Carnegie libraries , CSUMB

Despite calls for electronic, virtual, digital libraries without walls, the walled variety are still being built, some of them massive. This book explores the reasons for this contradiction by examining several notable new library facilities around the world to see how modern expectations for libraries are being translated into concrete and steel. More and more libraries are looking at change not as a dreaded hazard but as an opportunity that can itself be seized to strengthen the library in the areas of mission, technologies, facilities, funding, and organizational structure. Thirteen libraries are discussed-by a librarian or administrator who worked on the project. Each author writes about the design and building concerns that were particularly relevant to that library: philosophy, political issues, or any other concerns that affected planning, building, and services in the new facility. Introductory and concluding chapters identify underlying values and themes, tying everything together. The unique combinations of issues, constraints, and opportunities show how libraries are planning to fit into the approaching era of virtual information delivery.

library for new university. Comment suggests that they initially considered doing an all digital library, but went with LEEDS building "While it now has shelves for 152,000 volumes, its potential capacity is significantly larger-573,000 volumes."

John Willinsky: "This paper reviews and addresses the critical issues currently confronting monograph publishing as a matter of reduced opportunities for scholars to pursue book-length projects. In response, it proposes an alternative approach to monograph publishing based on a modular design for an online system that would foster, manage, and publish monographs in digital and print forms using open source software developments, drawn from journal publishing, and social networking technologies that might contribute to not only to the sustainability of monograph publishing but to the quality of the resulting books."

"Andrew Savikas is one of today's most prominent writers, speakers, and thinkers about digital publishing and the e-book revolution. As Vice President of Digital Initiatives at O'Reilly Media and Program Chair of O'Reilly's annual Tools of Change for Publishing conference-a massive three-day industry powwow about publishing technology and business strategy, held last month here in New York City-he keeps his finger pressed steadily to the ever-racing pulse of the digital media world"

"The digitization of millions of books under programs such as Google Book Search and Microsoft Live Search Books is dramatically expanding our ability to search and find information. The aim of these large-scale projects-to make content accessible-is interwoven with the question of how one keeps that content, whether digital or print, fit for use over time. This report by Oya Y. Rieger examines large-scale digital initiatives (LSDIs) to identify issues that will influence the availability and usability, over time, of the digital books these projects create. Ms. Rieger is interim assistant university librarian for digital library and information technologies at the Cornell University Library." The paper describes four large-scale projects-Google Book Search, Microsoft Live Search Books, Open Content Alliance, and the Million Book Project-and their digitization strategies. It then discusses a range of issues affecting the stewardship of the digital collections they create: selection, quality in content creation, technical infrastructure, and organizational infrastructure. The paper also attempts to foresee the likely impacts of large-scale digitization on book collections.

Blog entry by Georgia Harper about the implications of the Copyright Act and the inability to copy orphan works.

This is the Table of Contents page of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing website. This Website is an index of citations to articles about various topics related to electronic publishing. For example, Publisher's Rights Issues: Digital Rights Management contains an index of probably 50 relevant articles, print & digital, related to that topic. Do we really need any other source? I'm just going to tag this with our four main categories and we can probably find all the sub-categories within these articles.

issue focused on digital collections

This link leads to an 2000 article by Marlene Manoff called "Hybridity, Mutability, Multiplicity: Theorizing Electronic Library Collections." Much of the article discusses bibliographic control at a time when the internet was still a fairly new environment. Ms. Manoff discusses the changes that were occurring around 1998 - 2000, and many of these cataloging issues are still around today.

This page features the results of the collaboration between Google and the LOC to digitize Congressional hearings. I tried the Immigration collection, and found it easy to download and search the .pdf document. This is a great resource for researchers.

While interesting, this article doesn't point toward the feasibility of an all digital library. This can be deleted.

Fulltext Sources Online is an index published by Information Today, updated weekly online and available twice a year in a print version. FSO "is a directory of over 42,000 full-text newspapers, journals, magazine, newsletters, and transcripts from 30 aggregators and content providers." Subscribers have access to all aspects of the index, while non-subscribers can search for free with only limited access to results.

The article is interesting, but I truly question the claim that Amazon will sell $1 Billion dollars worth of Kindle hardware and software by 2010. What is relevant to our study is the reader comments. It's not a scientific random sample, but they are easily accessible opinions of the Kindle.

James Evans on his Science article about impact of eresources on research

This author argues against the "long tail" theory of internet research. Interesting, but directly relevant to our study.