Second half of presentation with John Wilkin at RLG Partnership meeting (June 2009)

1. ‘ Seeding’ the Cloud Library precipitating change in library infrastructure

3. What kind of infrastructure is needed to support the cloud library? Service level agreements Business models Disclosure mechanisms Metadata services

4. Registry Transfers Borrowing System Shared Collections Withdrawals Retrievals Commitments Holdings Loans Disclose Aggregate holdings and joint commitments constitute a shared asset enabling collaborative management strategies Local Collections Procedures Policies Infrastructure Assets Off-Site Collections ReCAP Digitized Library Collections

5. weather modification “ Clouds on Steroids” photo by Wink (http://www.flickr.com/photos/intherough/3069405146/) CLOUD SEEDING is the attempt to change the amount or type of precipitation that falls from clouds, by dispersing substances into the air that serve as cloud condensation or nuclei, which alter the microphysical processes within the cloud. Wikipedia

10. 1.5M Widely-held scholarly titles HathiTrust Ca. May 2009, 33K widely-held scholarly titles available as public domain content from HathiTrust Scope and impact increases each month 2.8M

14. N=2.3M Opportunities for Institutional Cooperation Shared Policy Frameworks Joint Service Agreements Increased Operational Efficiencies Material that NYU can already source through existing ILL – enhance local collection Material that NYU can obtain through HT dependent on copyright status – means of enhancing ‘local’ collection Material that NYU may choose to relegate based on copyright/ availability Material that NYU may choose to relegate with appropriate service level agreement Intersections Material that NYU can relegate with a high degree of confidence Value of partnership increases as number of participants grows N = 7.4 M ReCAP ReCAP N=2.8M

19. . . . not without peril

20. Registry Transfers Borrowing System Shared Collections Withdrawals Retrievals Digitized Library Collections Off-Site Collections Commitments Holdings Loans Disclose Aggregate holdings and joint commitments constitute a shared asset enabling collaborative management strategies Local Collections Procedures Policies Infrastructure Assets ReCAP

21. “… the patient art of ‘growing infrastructures’ will depend less on the Herculean figure of the master engineer, and more on a series of pragmatic, modest and strategically informed interventions , undertaken on the basis of imperfect knowledge and limited control.” P. Edwards et al, Understanding Infrastructure (2007), p. 39