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October 29, 2013 by Gary Price

More on Recent IMLS Grant to UC Davis to Investigate Future of Academic Research Library Technical Services

October 29, 2013 by Gary Price

Here’a a bit more about the $493,000 National Leadership Grant that IMLS awarded to UC Davis University Library on September 23rd.
From UC Davis:

The University Library of UC Davis was awarded a $493,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services…
The two-year project — seeking to modernize what is, for libraries, as complex as air traffic control systems — will create a roadmap for libraries for strategic planning and investments in new software, standards and expertise.
“Libraries have valuable information that is locked away in antiquated databases and inaccessible from the online places where students and researchers look for them,” said MacKenzie Smith, the university librarian at UC Davis and lead investigator. “Our project will explore how to break through roadblocks to modernizing library operations so that our data can reach its audience where they live online.”
UC Davis will work with other national and international institutions involved in library software, standards and practices to provide a route that, like GPS directions, can be recalculated or continuously updated as new data models, standards, workflows and practices evolve. The partner organizations include the Library of Congress, the OCLC global library network, the National Information Standards Organization, Kuali OLE and development partner Zepheira Inc., based in Dublin, Ohio.
Sally McCallum is chief of the Network Development and MARC Standards Office at the Library of Congress. “The Library of Congress is actively engaged in developing next generation standards for library data … and we are very pleased to collaborate with UC Davis on this project,” she said. “It has the potential to make a real difference in how libraries approach bibliographic control.”
Academic research libraries hold a vast wealth of cultural and scholarly material that underpins research in every discipline. In the past, library catalogs were the only way to explore those rich collections, Smith said, but today they are increasingly unsuited to the way researchers find and evaluate scholarly resources on the Web.
While new standards and technologies offer to leverage the benefits and efficiencies of the Web, the very nature of libraries — with interconnected institutions, specialized vendors, interdependent functions and constrained budgets — creates a complex ecosystem difficult and even resistant to change.
“Until libraries can modernize their data and how their clients interact with it,’ she said, “library collections will be increasingly hidden from the people who need them most.”
This project will investigate the future of research library operations, particularly the production of metadata — or data on data — and deployment on the Web. It will examine the current landscape for library data standards and technologies.
Smith said the project would investigate the entire library operation from initial acquisition or licensing, through cataloging, processing, and digitization, and on to indexing and visualization of the data for search and resource discovery on the Web.
“This project will enable ready access to the multitudes of resources available from the library today,” Smith said.

See Also: Full Text of Grant Announcement (via IMLS)
See Also: IMLS Awards More than $14.6 Million in Federal Grants to U.S. Libraries (September 23, 2013)

Filed under: Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Awards, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News

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Gary Price (gprice@mediasourceinc.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.

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