One Collection, One Community

2014 IDS Project Conference

Tom Bruno

Yale University

Or, How I Learned How To Stop

Worrying About Sharing My Library’s

Collection and Let It Go

DISCLAIMER #1

DISCLAIMER #2

Does that make me…

• An IDS Project Hipster?

• An IDS Project Fanboy?

• An IDS Project Wannabe?

OR ALL OF THE ABOVE? YOU BE THE JUDGE!

THIRD AND FINAL DISCLAIMER

Some say the

world will end

in fire…

…some say in ice.

This keynote, however, will end in

Karaoke…

ONE COLLECTION

SORRY, WRONG SLIDE DECK

OR WAS IT…?

NOT PICTURED: CYRIL OBERLANDER (SOLO TOUR)

FUN FACT:Tom never learned how to use Photoshop

“ILL is the Lost and Found of

Libraries”

- Heidi Nance-Bajorek

University of Washington

-OR-

Something Is

Awesome

In The State Of

Denmark

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Aren’t

Dead

They’re just OVERDUE…

The Magic of Courtesy Returns

This guy= literally worse than Elsevier

Universal Libraries: Fact and Fiction

…or a librarian!

The World’s 2nd Oldest ProfessionThe Dewey Decimal

System and Roman

Numerals DO NOT

MIX!

Wait a minute…

• Yes, I know it should be Greek numerals and not Roman numerals

• OK, DDC won’t be

around for another 1900 years either

• The Call Number for Satire & Humor (American Literature) is DCCCXVII

COPY ALL THE THINGS!

ILL means access to

the world beyond our

current reality!

- Alison DePollo

East Tennessee

State University

Borges’ Library of Babel

SPOILER ALERT: This book will mess

you up

DOCTOR MLS

Vashta Nerada- OCLC Symbol: NOPE

Does Your Library Share?

Or Does Your Library Scare?

[Interlibrary Loan] also means

we understand that the value

of our own collections extends

beyond their utility to our own

researchers, and are willing to

share them as needed.

- Joe Ellison

Northwestern University

Is ILL a “Necessary Evil”?

OF COURSE YOU CAN PAY USING IFLA

VOUCHERS…

Does Interlibrary Loan mean that

libraries have failed….

…or is this just a failure of the

Imagination?

Hmmm…

They said "Knowledge is

Power" but "Sharing

(knowledge)" is the act

that gives knowledge the

power.

- Seangill Peter Bae

Princeton University

It’s like… some kind of circle…

PROTIP: Don’t ask the person playing Rafiki

at Disney World to hold your baby like this.

The Universal Library is Already

Here…

We just don’t know it yet!

In other words…

ONE COMMUNITY

“It means we value all research whether the library

anticipated the need or not. It means we value all

researchers whether they conduct their research at

our institution or at another. It means we value change

and embrace the global nature of research. It means

we value efficiency through continual process

improvement. It means we value effectiveness by

making our services available when and where the

user is. It means we value community because without

it we would accomplish nothing.”

- Collette Mak

University of Notre Dame

High Priestess of the Pivot Table

Or, We Are Family

Let’s Get Personal…

aka, The Road to Syracuse

What’s Your Librarian Origin Story?

FUN FACT: Batgirl Was a Librarian

Does that make us?

Equal Time For Marvel

STEELSEN SMASH?

…TO THE BOOKMOBILE!

IT’S ALL CYRIL’S FAULT!

• In January 2008 I met

this guy at ALA

Midwinter in

Philadelphia

• Nothing was the same

ever again…

Why can’t Tom Photoshop?

BLAME THIS GUY TOO!

• I met Ed at 2008 ALA

Annual in Anaheim

• This is when I learned

about the IDS Project

• The rest, as they say,

was history…

THE WAY OF THE IDS PROJECT

• Community

• Innovation

• Fun

YES I SAID IT:

FUN

IDS= Inspiration Delivery Services?

“increasingly I see ILL as transcending

format. We exchange skillsets in addition to

data. Backroom shop is everywhere.”

-Angela Galvan

Ohio State University

The Good Ship IDS Yale

From One Gloucesterman to Another

(in which Tom sings a sea shanty and

tries not to cry)

But wait…

The books glow white in the stacks tonightNot a reader to be seenA kingdom of isolation,And it looks like I'm the queen.

WorldShare is howling like this swirling storm insideCouldn't keep them in, heaven knows I tried!

Don't let them out, don't let them readBe the non-circ library you always have to beConceal, don't feel, don't let them loanWell, now they loan!

Let it go, let it goCan't hold it back anymoreLet it go, let it goMarked as Shipped and out the door!

I don't careWhat they're going to sayLet the books go out,Jiffy bags never bothered me anyway!

It's funny how some distanceMakes everything seem smallAnd the fears that once controlled meCan't get to me at all!

It's time to see what I can doTo test the limits and break throughNo right, no wrong, no rules for me- I’m free

(Hooray for IDS Logic!)

Let it go, let it goI am one with the Bill Jones

Let it go, let it goThis is making Steelsen cry

Here we’ll standAnd here we'll stayLet the books go out!

My power flurries through the add-ons into the serverMy souls is spiraling in custom routing all around

And one thought crystallizes like an icy blast

I'm never going back,EMST’s in the past!

Let it go, let it goAnd I'll rise like the break of dawn

Let it go, let it goThat lowercase library is gone!

Here I standIn the light of dayLet the books go out,

IDS ‘14 IS UNDERWAY!

THANK YOU SYRACUSE!