Distrupting the Library Transporter Beam with Mark Leggott

• Mark's blog
• University Librarian at UPEI
• "if science can transport matter why do we still need the MARC record?"
• we need to *really* change
• a la Calvin and Hobbes' transmogrifer -- freedom to explore...build one and keep it in my office as a reminder
• upei has totally gone open source...evergreen
  
• check out Marshall Breeding's 2008 ils survey...negative comments outweigh positive by a LOT...ils-es are not effective...
• black box vs. open box
• the main reason upei went open source was to encourage a new culture that is open / new / transmogrified!!!
• Innisville Public Library (small, Ontario...wow!) went OS ILS
• switch to osils forces you to change your workflow, even if you don't need to
• check out DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
• open mind + open world = open access
• traditional approach is not good enough
• @ upei used reserach funding / funded positions to help with univ.-wide open source project...open and collaborative frameworks...expanding to steward all kinds of resarch data...expanding the role of the library on campus
• lib involved to share their expertise with meta data / data stewardship etc. PLUS get in on big research funding...think about how pub lib can do this in the community....
• VRE = Virtual Research Environment...supports local research collaboration
• "Island Lives"...digitized local papers / history...community involved in editing and tagging...building community around digital collecitons
• the goal is the common good
• WorldCat is becoming a black box,not an open box
• embrace innovation
• build a true library commons
• walk the walk
• be more radical and protecting of the public good
• get in touch with your inner Potato Head!