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News Fromfalvey A Publication of Falvey Memorial Library, Villanova University Spring 2011 News from Falvey Expositions Celebrates New Digital Life in Publishing Partnership By Stephen Spatz With the most recent issue of Expositions, the Villanova seed of the idea to the thriving organism it is today, includ- Center for Liberal Education’s journal of interdisciplinary ing the current co-managing editors of Expositions, Gregory studies in the humanities, its editors have taken the bold D. Hoskins, Ph.D., and John-Paul Spiro, M.A. Dr. Doody step of severing their relationship with a prominent com- is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the mercial publisher in favor of the open access model, offer- founder of Expositions. ing their content in a sleek new digital interface, designed Attendees also viewed a video demonstration of the new and mounted in-house at Falvey Memorial Library. Expositions online portal and were encouraged to register as This partnership between Expositions and Falvey marks readers of the journal in order to take full advantage of the the beginning of what promises to be an exciting new reading tools available on the journal site, which utilizes phase in the production of original scholarship at Villanova Open Journal Systems software. University. As the Library’s e-journal hosting service grows and more campus entities choose to use it to publish their “ A hallmark of the emerging partnership scholarly output, a body of work with a uniquely Villanova between the Library and the faculty in character will develop as a feature of both the public face of advancing our institution’s scholarly the University’s research mission and the Library’s holdings. identity and global visibility” As University Librarian Joe Lucia notes, “Support for Expositions as an open access digital publication is a hall- Journal editors who sign on with Falvey’s new service reap mark of the emerging partnership between the Library and many direct benefits, as Dr. Hoskins explains: “In moving the faculty in advancing our institution’s scholarly identity from a print to an online publication we eliminated barriers and global visibility.” to the journal’s content, we cut operating expenses, and we A diverse group of librarians, editors, authors and admin- gained greater control of the format of the journal. We have istrators gathered in Falvey Memorial Library on Oct. 21 to the capacity to reach a national and international readership, celebrate the reemergence of Expositions as an online-only and yet we appreciate the fact that our publishing partners publication hosted by Falvey’s digital publishing service. are just across campus instead of across the Atlantic.” One of the new partnership’s architects, John A. Doody, With the hosting of e-journals, the Library will deepen Ph.D., addressed the gathering and acknowledged the its already strong commitment to facilitating the sharing of VCLE faculty who cultivated the journal project from the scholarship. Already the main provider of academic journal Continued on Page 8 Falvey Memorial Library • Villanova University • 800 Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, PA 19085 from News Falvey Director’s Watch is published twice yearly for friends of Falvey Memorial Library, Villanova University. Open Source, Collaboration and a Mission-Centered Joe Lucia, University Librarian and Library Director Judith Olsen, Editor Technology Agenda for Laura Hutelmyer, Photography coordinator Libraries Editorial board: Alice Bampton, Luisa Cywinski, By Joe Lucia Gerald Dierkes, Mary Heyman, Laura Hutelmyer, David Lacy, Jacqueline Mirabile, Roberta Rosci and Alexandra Edwards At Villanova University, we have made a concerted investment in the development of open source Photographers: Alice Bampton and Laura Hutelmyer tools to provide simple, flexible, Graphics: Joanne Quinn and Luisa Cywinski powerful and beautifully designed access to library resources. VuFind is the premier example of our Falvey Memorial Library efforts (and success) in this arena, Villanova University with ongoing adoption in librar- 800 Lancaster Avenue Villanova, PA 19085-1696 ies worldwide and a very active developer community spanning the globe. For more information about Falvey, Guiding the VuFind project refer to our website at library.villanova.edu is a pair of related assumptions: first, that libraries must build and Joe Lucia share core infrastructure as a key University Librarian Please contact Judith Olsen at aspect of their mission to sustain [email protected] with your comments the “knowledge commons”; second, that we can best realize or if you would like to be added to our mailing list. that mission by embedding the principles of unfettered information sharing within our technology adoption and Falvey Quick Reference implementation practices. From off campus, dial 610-519 before the extension. “Openness” is the pervasive and Information Desk 4270 distinctive characteristic of what we do: open stacks, open access, open data, Library Hours 4292 open systems and open source. Circulation 4271 Research assistance 4273 In some ways, this strain of thinking runs counter to Business InfoCenter 4374 current technology trends that move data, applications and services “to the cloud,” mitigating the need for intensive Course reserves 4278 local technology investments. But cloud-based systems are Digital Library 5271/5185 for the most part contingent upon at least some propri- Director’s Office 4291 etary enclosure of data and services. Our guiding principle is that the key social and cultural function of libraries in Instruction 5207 the digital age is to resist and even push back against the Interlibrary Loan 4274/6007 encroachment of proprietary regimes on our intellectual Outreach 6371 and cultural commonwealth — in other words, to keep the Periodicals & Media 4270 commons open. It is quite possible that the future role and relevance of Slide Library 6997 libraries in the digital environment rests upon their ability Special Collections 5271/5182 to become fully open in all aspects, such that “openness” University Archives 4133 is the pervasive and distinctive characteristic of what we do: open stacks, open access, open data, open systems and open source. 2 Villanova University Such openness requires a shared vision, a shared philoso- phy and a sustained collective engagement in partnerships that can realize in practice the implementation of infrastruc- ture and the adoption of professional practices that these principles express as an ideal. It is not enough merely to have isolated projects that real- ize only a small facet of this larger goal. But as individual projects grow and mature, they can provide models for the attainment of the larger goals. In September 2010, the VuFind developer community It defines a platform for progress that should appeal to gathered at Villanova University for what was billed as the library directors and deans who may not always be inter- VuFind 2.0 Summit. This event was supported in part by ested in technical details but who are interested in tools, funds from the Mellon Foundation, through an award to processes and frameworks that can advance the 21st century the University for technology collaboration. The Summit academic library agenda. was an enormous success, in part because it established a More significantly perhaps, it defines a framework for clear VuFind technical agenda for the next several years, collective investment and support of open source initia- but, perhaps more significantly, because it addressed larger tives connected directly to a clear view of the unique issues of project governance and the critical conjunction of mission of libraries. open source project stewardship with leadership challenges in the current library “ecosystem.” The direct outcome of the Summit was the refinement and public sharing of VuFind is a library resource portal “roadmaps,” both for application development and for proj- ect governance. These can be viewed online at designed and developed at Villanova http://vufind.org/docs/roadmap2.pdf. University. The goal of VuFind is to The organization and governance roadmap that resulted enable users to search and browse from our meeting will facilitate the establishment of a more through library resources by replacing stable and robust framework for library participation in and the traditional online public access support of the VuFind project over the next several years. catalog. The software is open source and is currently being used at Villanova and at other institutions, such as the National Library of Australia and Yale University. To our readers: News From Falvey features events, exhibits, services, news, trends, innovations, resources and other activities at Falvey Memorial Library. We hope you enjoy the publication, and we welcome your comments and suggestions. Faceted research results from the VuFind demo at http://vufind.org/demo show VuFind’s simplest Read more Falvey news at default look and feel; the software can easily be customized to meet local needs, as demonstrated by the rainbow blog.library.villanova.edu/news of VuFind installations in the wild. Judith Olsen, Editor 3 Falvey Memorial Library Fall 2010 Exhibits Ireland in Special Collections Visitors were able to tour Ireland through the centuries with Laura Bang, Special and Digital Collections curato- rial assistant, as their guide. “Rambles, Sketches, Tours: Travellers and Tourism in Ireland,” the featured Special Collections fall exhibit, included unique works from the Joseph McGarrity
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