24. Background
Internet and WWW Trend
Electronic-format information prevails
Libraries Encounter
Diminished Budget
Rising Cost for Purchasing Books and Subscribing
Serials
Increased Patron Demands
26. Mission
Provide academic and industrial information
for members
in electronic format
access through Internet
Collective subscription
Consortium License
National License
Resource Sharing
Manpower
Hardware/Software Cost
27. Consortium Members
Eligibility: open to all
Colleges and Universities (About 95)
Research Institutes
Non-Profit Organizations
Establish sub-consortia for each database
Members join sub-consortia based on individual
requirement
29. Criteria for Selecting Electronic
Resources
Multi-discipline First
Needs of Consortium Members
Technical Feasibility
30. Information Providers (IP)
Electronic Journals
Academic Press, Elsevier Science, EBSCO, IEEE,
Swets
Reference Databases
ISI, EI, OCLC
Scientific and Patent Information
IBM
31. Current Status (I)
Database Information Access Members Notes
Provider Approach
EBSCOhost EBSCO Internet 96 National
(ASE/BSP) License
IDEAL Academic Internet 61 Consortium
Press License
IEL IEEE Internet About 20 Consortium
License
SDOS Elsevier Mirror Site 31 Consortium
License
SwetsNet Swets Internet 98 National
License
32. Current Status (II)
Database Information Access Members Notes
Provider Approach
Ei Village EI Mirror Site 21 Consortium
License
OCLC FirstSearch OCLC Internet 96 National
License
Web of Science ISI Mirror Site About 5 Consortium
(WOS) License
Intellectual IBM Mirror Site National
Property Network License
(IPN)
33. How to Access Resources
Mount electronic resources on local servers
(Mirror Site)
Provide access to resources on Information
Providers’ (IP) servers through Internet
34. Mirror Site or Internet?
Mirror Site Internet
Cost
Connection Speed
Add-on Value?
Policy (IPs' and
the Consortium's )
35. Cost for Setting Up Mirror Sites
Sever/Storage Cost
Powerful Server
Enormous Storage Space
Manpower for
System Maintenance
Data Loading
Technology Management
Cooperation between Library Science and
Computer Science
36. Partners for
Technical Issues
National Chiao-Tung University
Mirror Site Maintenance/Data Loading for Ei
Village, WOS, and IPN...
National Center for High-Performance
Computing
Network InfraStructure
Academia Sinica
Mirror Site Maintenance/Data Loading for SDOS
Science and Technology Information Center
Coordination
37. Quotes from Bill Gates
―Libraries that embrace the technology NOW
will have a huge impact on their user
communities and peers‖
―It will give the experiences with users needs
and opportunities to refine library services
much quicker than lower speed adopters‖
46. 聯合數位參考服務
Cooperative Digital Reference Service, CDRS
Why CDRS?
Matching of patron queries to the most appropriate
expert (region, subject)
Cross-service archives of question and answers
Combine the power of local collections and staff
strengths with the diversity and availability of
libraries and librarians everywhere, 24 hours a day,
7 days a week
Integrate physical and digital information – the
numerous Web-based answer services search
neither the vast non-digitized collections nor the
thousands of library online catalogs 46
52. 資訊暨通訊技術(ICTs)
System System System System System
A B C D N
System level
Approach level
Web Scale Web 2.0 &
Mobil App. Visualization
Index Social Media
Service level