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Library Management Issues With Regards to Technology

Explore the integration of technology in libraries, including online resources, cost implications, and management issues. Discover how technology drives new modes of delivery and cost models, and its impact on decision making and funding. Stay updated on the latest management landscape and funding issues.

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Library Management Issues With Regards to Technology

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  1. Library Management Issues With Regards to Technology

  2. Traditional functions have been modernized • integrated library systems linking catalogue and circulation • Staff workstations and patron access • Information resources have been revolutionized • Electronic delivery of information • Offsite user access Libraries-The New Frontier

  3. One-time costs funded by capital investment • ILS • furniture • Initial costs funded by operating expenses • Equipment • Software applications • Databases • Recurring costs – ongoing operating expenses • Database subscriptions • Software and Hardware Upgrades • Virus protection • Maintenance • Staff training • User instruction Costs of Technology

  4. Traditional Library Costs Print materials were predictable, recurring costs.

  5. How to calculate the value added of online information resources • User satisfaction • Increase in learning • Quality of information • How to budget for emerging technologies • Academic libraries want to be the technology leader • Public libraries want to provide quality service but face longer lead times and town politics Management Issues

  6. Online information infrastructures allow increased search specificity • MetaLib, EnCompass, WebFeat • interface among heterogeneous resources • provides search syntax normalization • SFX • OpenURL link resolver • content sensitive linking • FEDORA Open Source Digital Repository Management System • digital object model • relates objects and associated actions Technology Drives Modes of Delivery

  7. Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicagohttp://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/ University of Virginia Digital Image Collectionshttp://www.lib.virginia.edu/digital/collections/image/ Library Journal Collections

  8. Current pricing structure inappropriate • Support for transaction-based usage fee • Object level searching • Cross-domain seamless searching • COUNTER – Counting Online Usage of NeTworked Electronic Resources Technology Drives New Cost Models

  9. Developed with input from librarians, vendors and intermediaries • Supports a use-based differential pricing system • Provides cost models for library applications COUNTER Initiative

  10. Technology has implications in decision making aside from costs and information resources • Technology linked to other management issues: • Personnel skills and expense • OPAL-Online Programming for All libraries • Government oversight • Funding issues • Security Management Landscape

  11. E-Rate discounts to 43.4% of public libraries jeopardized by • CIPA 2004 (Children’s Internet Protection Act requires public and school libraries to install filters • DOPA 2006 (Deleting Online Predators Act) prohibits access to social-networking sites, eg. MySpace Management Funding Issues

  12. Radio Frequency ID technology improves collection management • Allows patron checkout • Workstation efficiency increased • Automated book drop and sorting • Costly Collections Opportunity

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