Project Faculteitsbibliotheek Letteren en Wijsbegeerte UGent
DH at UGent Libraries
1. Faculty of Arts & Philosophy / Doctoral Schools
Digital Humanities Seminar – Day 2
11/10/2012
DH @ UGENT (LIBRARIES)
Saskia Scheltjens
Faculty of Arts & Philosophy, Ghent University
www.twitter.com/saschel
www.slideshare.net/saschel
3. Or as Vika Zafrin put it this wonderful online publication:
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/alt-ac/pieces/whats-librarian
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4. 11/10/2012
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Rijksmuseum Research Library - Picture by Candida Hofer
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5. Selection & implementation of free / open source library software
http://www.chip-project.org/
CHIP (Cultural Heritage Information Presentation) project
funded by the Dutch Science Foundation NWO-CATCH (Continuous Access
to Cultural Heritage) program
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6. Digital Humanities x Libraries makes sense to me :
• Managing Research Data
• Distributed (‘embedded’) services & support
• Digitisation and Curation
• Digital Preservation
• Discovery and Dissemination
JISC report (2012)
http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/News/UK-Scholarly-Reading/
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7. Miriam Posner’s blog & bibliography ‘Digital Humanities and the Library’
http://miriamposner.com/blog/?page_id=1033#library
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8. Faculty of Arts & Philosophy UGent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TraBla_2.jpg
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10. UNIVERSITY WIDE
Report Bjørnshauge ‘The Network’ (2004)
Greater (cost) efficiency
Integration of digital collections
Network of libraries (+350!)
Co-ordinated distributed model
Distribution of tasks
central library vs faculty libraries
Action plan & timing
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11. Mission University Library
• Digital Library
• Network co-ordination
• Heritage collection / Repository
• Working environment
Mission Faculty Library
Support current research
and education in the faculty
with relevant collections and
innovative services
Rep
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gent_Boekentoren3.JPG
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12. FACULTY LEVEL Arts & Philosophy
BEFORE 2008
• 49 departmental libraries
• 222 locations
• 670.000 volumes
• registration rate of only 52%
• different opening hours/rules/procedures/policies
• demotivated staff
BAD BAD BAD BAD visitation reports ....
http://www.flickr.com/ph
otos/faclibflw/sets/
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13. FACULTY LEVEL Arts & Philosophy
2009 – 2014 : REORGANISATION
• INFRASTRUCTURE renovation
• Professionalising and activation (new) STAFF
• Centralising and rationalising COLLECTIONS and FUNDING
• Developing new WORKFLOWS
• Improve existing SERVICES & develop new ones that are relevant to
research & education
RESULT
• 8.070 sq m new library space
• 853 working & learning places
• 420.000 volumes in open stacks (80%), 250.000 volumes in closed stacks
• registration rate: 100%
• new library team
• budget infrastructure: 9.810.000 €
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14. New Faculty Library Arts & Philosophy UGent
Phase 01 Literature, Near East and library
administration
ca. 2.400 m²
ca. 3.560 lm open stack book collection
>> in use: 17 february 2012
Phase 02 Art, Philosophy & History
ca. 2.370 m²
ca. 3.965 lm open stack book collection
>> move: september 2013
>>in use: october 2013
2012
Phase 03 Linguistics, Languages & Cultures,
Archeology
ca. 3.300 m²
ca. 4.470 lm open stack book collection
2013 >> move: august-september 2014
>> in use : september 2014
UGent - DGFB 2014
18/02/2011 Collectiebeleid Wetenschappelijke Bibliotheken
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15. Situation 2008 - Arts & Philosophy Faculty UGent
Colors = 20 departments with an incorporated library Pieter Pauwels – 3D
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16. Situation 2014 - Arts & Philosophy Faculty UGent
Pieter Pauwels – 3D
red = departments blue = libraries brown = central services & teaching space
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17. Opening Faculty Library Arts & Philosophy UGent Phase 1 :
17 february 2012
http://www.beeldbank.ugent.be/fotoalbums/24
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26. Possible future developments
of 21st century academic libraries
• OPEN (digital) collections
• Print collections to CLOSED stacks
• Networked services and collections
• Broader usergroups
• New business models
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27. but to begin with
in Arts & Philosophy UGent
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30. Library Lab UGent
=
• 2 highly equiped spaces IN the faculty library
• for faculty staff and students
• to work with digital collections, tools and services
• find expert help (technical & project management)
• digital training and instructions
• so as to collaborate on innovative projects
• in current research and education
TIMING : start 2nd phase Faculty Library in October 2013
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31. this is far from new
etc ...
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32. At the moment
Talking / meeting / planning …..
about co-operation with like minded people
within (and outside) the faculty to set this up
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36. A research proposal was jointly submitted in June 2012
by the four Flemish universities
to the Flemish Hercules Foundation
in order to get funding to participate in the
European DARIAH project (ESFRI project)
as DARIAH-Vlaanderen
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37. If this project gets funded
we start BIG
If not
we will start small
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39. … with people in the faculty
but also with the
University Library
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40. University Library
INFRASTRUCTURE
• Approx. 3 million volumes in a landmark building by Henry Van de Velde
• Large renovation project (2012-2017)
• New underground depot
http://www.boekentoren.be/boekentoren_mo
d2.aspx?url=ondergrondsdepot_NL
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41. University Library
IT
• Innovative digital library development since the mid 80’s
• Herbert Van de Sompel, Patrick Hochstenbach, …
(OAI-PMH, OpenURL -> SFX, …)
• Open Access -> Open Aire Project
• Open Data
• Open Software
their code is on github !
UGent - UB
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49. My hope is
that in UGent in the future there will be
more formalised places
in co-operation with libraries
where we can forge co-operations
around research and educational projects
with an open vision and an eye for sustainability
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