Digital Initiatives Symposium

USD, April 28, 2016

Anna Gold, Dean of Library Services

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

lib.calpoly.edu

Digital Initiatives Symposium

https://slides.com/akgold/usd-idi/

Anna Gold, Dean of Library Services

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

lib.calpoly.edu

from digital to post-digital:

Digital IDEAS in Practice 

Outline

• What is a digital library today?

• <iDi> Initiative for Digital IDEAS at Cal Poly

• Our post-digital future

What is a digital library today?

What is a digital library today?

is any library digital?

is every library digital?

digital libraries

digital libraries

Digital Library Federation (DLF)

Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (IEEE/ACM)

Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)

California Digital Library (CDL)

D-Lib

Theory & Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL)

1991

2000

1998-2007

2015

<iDi>:

Initiative for Digital IDEAS

Text

"because people are at the heart of our vision...."

2010

 "because scholarship, communication, and learning are empowered and enhanced by digital systems and applications, and by access to digital content..."

2012

Principles

• Integrated program

• Share & collaborate on infrastructure

• Priorities driven by Cal Poly strengths & needs 

Strategies & Goals

new positions

new spaces 

print->digital monographs

responsive digital design

migrate to new digital platform

create Data Studio

digital archiving at scale

link physical & digital services, spaces

first, the people

(year 1: 2012-2013)

1. digital archivist

2. data and GIS specialist

3. OER fellow

next, the project teams

(year 2:  2013-2014)

• Information Architecture

• Digital Preservation

• Digital Media (images)

&"everybody in"

(year 2 & 3:  2013-2015)

• building navigation

• resource discovery

• data & digital literacies

• active learning lab

• digital "flip" - collections

Progress

digital building maps that provide live information about computer availability 

digital building occupancy information that allows us to "datify" building use

hundreds of new power outlets

Progress

Resource discovery unifying view of all print and digital resources

Responsive web redesigns moving toward mobile-first strategies

social media to promote artists books, events, archives

Progress

faculty-informed shift to ebooks and new space for people

ERM: analyzing the big-deal 

data-informed thinning of unused collections & more space for people

digital media collections - yours, ours, theirs

Progress

Virtual servers

Virtual desktop (VDI)

Progress

Polytechnic literacies defined

Data literacies

Visual literacies

Lessons learned

everybody in

everybody learns

a community of innovators

figure out who's on first

limits to growth

platforms vs. showcases

Lessons learned

everybody in

everybody learns

a community of innovators

figure out who's on first

limits to growth

platforms vs. showcases

Lessons learned

everybody in

everybody learns

a community of innovators

figure out who's on first

limits to growth

platforms vs. showcases

Lessons learned

everybody in

everybody learns

a community of innovators

figure out who's on first

limits to growth

platforms vs. showcases

Lessons learned

everybody in

everybody learns

a community of innovators

figure out who's on first

limits to growth

platforms vs. showcases

Lessons learned

everybody in

everybody learns

a community of innovators

figure out who's on first

limits to growth

platforms vs. showcases

Lessons learned

everybody in

everybody learns

a community of innovators

figure out who's on first

limits to growth

platforms vs. showcases

Costs?

no new money, but

a big investment of 'old' money:

Ballpark Costs

three positions:  retirements, repurposed, $300,000

software platforms & services - $100,000

staff/faculty training - $10,000

lots of student assistant & staff time - $80,000

<$500,000/year

(does not include building/capital projects)

What's next

a new strategic plan

2015-2022

Vision

"we connect people & inspire learning"

System of Action

<iDi2>

<iDi2>

• ORCID

• Research analytics 

• Shared Shelf (from pilot to program)

• Digital publishing

• Data curation

• Hydra and Islandora collaborations

• Bepress IR: from platform to showcase

• Digital exhibits

http://libraries.calstate.edu/fresno-state-pioneers-collaborative-project-to-digitize-aerial-photos/

Fedora

Hydra

Sufia

Mirador

Islandora

Spotlight

Bepress

Hydra in a Box

Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship

are we post-digital yet?

are we post-digital yet?

"There are a lot of people around now who have thoroughly integrated 'digitalness' into their lives.  To the extent that it makes as much sense to define them as digital as it does to define them as air-breathing. ie it's true but not useful or interesting."

- Davies, 2009

"...the post-digital...no longer considers digital-ness revolutionary."

- Kim Cascone, 2000

"the digital revolution is over."

- Nicholas Negroponte

"Postdigital .... points ...to our rapidly changed and changing relationships with digital technologies and art forms. It points to an attitude that is more concerned with being human, than with being digital."

- Wikipedia, "postdigital," April 26, 2016 

digital    technology

digital    "clean"

digital    "lumpy"

digital    enabler

affordance:

An affordance is a relation between an object or an environment and an organism that, through a collection of stimuli, affords the opportunity for that organism to perform an action. For example, a knob affords twisting, and perhaps pushing, while a cord affords pulling.

post-digital affordances

• networked (interdependence, relationships)

• emergent (either/or, border-zones)

• fluid (fast, changing, active)

• personal (choosing paths, forging identity)

(post-digital) library =

a richly networked, immersive environment

summing up:

keep people first

hybrid fuel

(beyond either/or)

hot house

choices, style, luck, timing...

a culture of "yes" 

"I don't believe in digital libraries....I believe in good libraries."

(adapted from Sergio Valente, said at Cannes of 'digital agencies')

thank you

thank you

to all the staff of the Kennedy Library

to our colleagues across campus

to our generous donors

to our CSU collaborators

to our students who inspire us every day