University Libraries:
An Introduction for New Faculty
August 2008
What is a library?
… 2004 might well be remembered as the Year
of Search … If we get through these rocky
times with civilization’s underpinnings
intact, our descendants, swimming in total
information, might be required to memorize
the date of last August’s Google IPO as a
cultural milestone…
Newsweek, December 2004
“Where attention is scarce, the library needs
to provide services which save time, which
are built around user workflow, and which
are targeted and engaging … Aggregating
resources may not be enough. They will be
shaped and projected into user
environments in ways that support learning
and research objectives.”
Lorcan Dempsey, Ariadne, 2006
“The internet lies at the core of an advanced
scholarly information infrastructure to facilitate
distributed, data- and information-intensive
collaborative research. These developments exist
within a rapidly evolving social and policy
environment, as relationships shift among scholars,
publishers, librarians, universities, funding
agencies, businesses, and other stakeholders.”
Christine Borgman
LIBRARY ROLES: getting in the flow
• Knowledge resources: build collections … work
with content creators/providers.
• Access: catalogs/indexes … develop technology
infrastructure & personal/group tools.
• Services & Expertise: reference/research
services…information literacy, collaborative
learning centers, online research environments.
An Introduction
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Overview of Libraries system
Connecting with the organization
Services & resources
Your intellectual work, publishing, your
rights, etc.
OVERVIEW
Facts & Figures
• 14 physical sites in Twin Cities
• 6.8 million volumes (15th largest research
library in North America), all media types
• Nearly 30,000 electronic journals, over
266,000 e-books (campus licensing)
• 350 staff, over 500 student employees
• Major contributor to campus technology
infrastructure
• Largest external lending volume
Mpls. Main
Libraries
Wilson Library –
Main Humanities and
Social Science
Andersen Library –
Special Collections and
Archives; Research
Materials and Storage
Collections
Walter Library –
Science and Engineering;
Video and audio materials
Bio-Medical Library –
Health Sciences
Main
Libraries
Subject
Libraries
Architecture and
Landscape
Architecture
Math Library
Music Library
St. Paul
Libraries
Magrath Library
Entomology/
Fisheries/Wildlife
Forestry
Plant Pathology
Vet Medical
Also:
Horticulture
(Chaska)
Lake Itasca Bio
Station
Independent Libraries
• Journalism Library (CLA)
• Law Library (Law)
• Coordinate campus libraries
– Crookston, Duluth, Morris, Rochester
• Many, many departmental libraries & reading
rooms
ORGANIZATION
Discipline Liaisons
• Collection development, access
– New journals, monographs
– Electronic content licenses
• Instructional services, customized web
services
• Research support
• Program development, grants, outreach
SERVICES & RESOURCES
http://www.lib.umn.edu
Customized
Your Information
Personalized
Citation management tool
• Web-based
• Import/export citations
• Integrate with word processing applications
• Manage citations
• Create bibliographies, reference lists
• Shared reference lists
Copyright Information & Education
Instructional Role
UMN Undergraduate Learning Outcomes
• The ability to identify, define, and solve problems
• The ability to locate and evaluate information
• Mastery of a body of knowledge and mode of inquiry
• An understanding of diverse philosophies and cultures
in a global society
• Ability to communicate effectively
• An understanding of the role of creativity, innovation,
discovery, and expression in the arts and humanities
and in the natural and social sciences
• Skills for effective citizenship and lifelong learning
Instructional Services
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Online tutorials (QuickStudy)
Discipline resource guides
Course-specific websites (CourseLib)
Unravel the Library workshop series
Course-specific sessions
SMART Learning Commons
• Wilson Library (West Bank)
• Magrath Library (St. Paul)
• Walter Library (East Bank)
– Research support
– Writing support
– At risk course support
– Peer learning consultants
– Technology assistance
Your Work, Publishing,
Rights
Scholarly Publishing:
A Circle of Gifts
Publisher
Reviewer
LIBRARY
AUTHOR
READER
Creator Rights (copyright)
• To publish and distribute a work in print or other
media
• To reproduce it (e.g., through photocopying)
• To prepare translations or other derivative works
• To perform or display the work publicly
• To authorize others to exercise any of these rights
These rights may be both segmented and
transferred to others.
Surrendered Copyright?
May Need Permission to:
• Post the work on your web site or to a
course management system like WebCT
• Re-use excerpts in another work
• Translate the work into another language
• Make copies of the work for your colleagues
• Place the work in course-packs
• Place the work in a digital repository or
archive
Creator Options
Option 1
Option 2
Option 3
Continue the frequent
existing practice of
transferring
ownership of
copyrights to
publishers, in
exchange for
Reserve some specific
rights (e.g., the
right to republish an
essay in a book, the
right to copy material
for instructional
purposes, etc.) but
otherwise transfer
ownership of the
copyright to the
publisher
Retain ownership of
the copyright and
license to publishers
all the rights the
publishers need to
publication
conduct their business
CIC Authors’ Addendum
Open Access: A new model for rights
Open Access (OA) literature is digital, online,
free of charge, and free of most copyright &
licensing restrictions. OA focuses on royaltyfree scholarly communication.
Author agrees to a license that may require attribution or block
commercial re-use, but permits the uses required by legitimate
scholarship (reading, downloading, sharing, storing, printing,
searching, linking…)
Open Access Models
• OA Journals: (peer reviewed), often
author-pays; grew 19% in 2007; ~3000
titles
• OA archives, repositories: institutional,
disciplinary, governmental
UMN = University Digital Conservancy
http://conservancy.umn.edu/
NIH Policy (2007)
The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall require
that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have
submitted for them to the National Library of Medicine’s
PubMed Central an electronic version of their final, peerreviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication, to
be made publicly available no later than 12 months after
the official date of publication: Provided, That the NIH shall
implement the public access policy in a manner consistent
with copyright law.
Institutions and investigators are responsible for ensuring
that any publishing or copyright agreements concerning
submitted articles fully comply with this Policy.
Negotiating: Success Story
Professor Gary Balas, of U of M’s department
of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics,
initiated a change within his professional
organization:
The American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics (AIAA) agreed to modify their
self-archiving policy to allow web posting
without requesting permission
Author rights
• Assigning your rights matters
• Authors have options, agreements are
negotiable
• Open access: journal venues, self-archiving
• The Libraries can help:
– Document publisher policies
– Guidance on rights options (templates)
– Identify open access venues
– Archive your works
What is a library?
• Core and distinctive knowledge resources
• Pervasive information services: teaching,
learning, research support
• Tools to enhance inquiry, productivity
• Counsel on publishing options
…in the flow
QUESTIONS?