The growth and development of technology, computers, software, and the internet have changed the ways in which libraries function, operate, and are being used by the communities they serve. Public libraries have been playing a bit of catch-up in many ways related to the growth of digital services due to the fact that public libraries are also still serving users whose information needs include more traditional resources. Is there a common ground in mission and scope that public libraries and academic libraries serve together? In what ways are these services complementary and what are the ways in which each of these institutions can learn from and share with one another? Audio available: http://scholarslab.org/podcasts/podcast-james-neal/

1. The importance of digital services and the
value of academic/public libraries
"Public Libraries and
Academic Libraries:
Digital Partners?"

2. James Peter Neal, III - @james3neal

3. James Peter Neal, III - @james3neal

5. Trends - Academic Libraries
● Communicating value
● Data curation
● Digital preservation
● Higher Education
● Information technology
● Mobile environments
● Scholarly
communication
● Staffing
● User behaviors &
expectations

6. "Cyberinfrastructure consists of
computing systems, data storage
systems, advanced instruments and
data repositories, visualization
environments, and people, all linked
by high speed networks to make
possible scholarly innovation and
discoveries not otherwise possible."
- Indiana University - UITS

7. Digital services are
programs, projects, and
services that create,
manage, and develop digital
scholarship and access with
regard to content,
organization, user
behavior, and publishing.

8. DISINTERMEDIATION

9. DIGITAL
SERVICES
COPYRIGHT
SCHOLARLY
COMMUNICATION
AUTHOR'S
RIGHTS
OPEN
ACCESS
PEER
REVIEW
INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY

10. DIGITAL SERVICES
Social Media
Ebooks - Audiobooks
- Downloads
Databases
Website
Mobile
Applications
Information
Technology
Public Relations
Access - Literacy

13. MACROSCOPE

17. DATA
+
CODE
+
SOCIAL NETWORKS
=
digital services

18. DATA

20. Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion
bytes of data.
A quintillion is 1,000 times a
quadrillion, which is 1,000 times a
trillion, which is 1,000 times a billion.
*IBM

21. Data is:
● SHARABLE
● EXTENSIBLE
● REUSABLE

22. ●Where does data come
from?
●What methods were used
to gather and analyze
data?
●What cognitive biases do
we bring to data
interpretation?

27. DATA SCIENCE
"The ability to take data — to be able to understand it,
to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it,
to communicate it — that’s going to be a hugely
important skill in the next decades." - Hal Varian,
founding dean of School of Information - UCBerkeley,
Chief Economist - Google

28. CODE

35. HTML, PHP/MySQL, Python, Javascript,
SQLShare, Google Refine, DataWrangler,
DataExplorer, Excel, Fusion Tables, BibSoup,
ScraperWiki, Dataverse, FigShare, R,
Tableau, Fusion Charts, D3, Protovis,
WordPress, Drupal, NoSQL / MongoDB, Solr,
and Hadoop

36. SOCIAL
NETWORKS

40. Tom Scheinfeldt

41. "In as much as digital humanities is
an Internet-based social network, it
should come as no surprise that
digital humanities looks a lot like the
Internet itself. Digital humanities
takes more than tools from the
Internet. It works like the Internet. It
takes its values from the Internet."
- Tom Scheinfeldt -

42. "...digital humanities starts to look a
lot like a social network. Indeed, in
some ways digital humanities
increasingly is a social network built,
for better or worse, on Twitter’s
platform."
- Tom Scheinfeldt -

44. Why digital services?

45. VALUE
KNOWLEDGE OF:
DATA - CODE - SOCIAL NETWORKS
LEADS TO GREATER:
●DATA LITERACY
●DIGITAL LITERACY
●INFORMATION LITERACY

53. OUTREACH

55. j@james3neal