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JULY-SEPTEMBER 2014• ISSUE 3

Welcome once again to the third issue of Ignite; the newsletter for librarians across South Asia. Thank you for sending us your feedback. We are delighted that you find Ignite useful and are happy to read it every quarter.

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I would like to begin by wishing each one of you a very happy Librarians’ Day, which is celebrated country-wide on August 12, 2014. In this issue, we bring to you news, events and trends from the country and across the world to savour. Let us introduce you to our award winning netBASE collection from the legendary CRC Press – with over 12,000 references in more than 350 subject areas. Keeping in tune with the spirit of the Librarians’ Day, we are paying tribute to two librarians in this issue, who have made us believe that librarians are no less than superheroes who have the ability to touch the lives of many people through books. We also list for you 11 of our all-time favourite movies with librarians as our main heroes – saving the world, falling in love, teaching goodness and so much more!! Come with us for a guided tour of the Bodleian Libraries and listen to Richard Ovenden, the Bodley’s librarian at the University of Oxford as he takes us through the objective behind the refurbishment project turning the New Bodleian into the Weston Library. We also reveal to you the results of our 2014 open access survey and discuss what is shaping authors’ attitudes, values and understanding of it and what they believe the future of research communication to be. Quite an eye opener this is. Enjoy your own Ignite with a cup of hot tea or coffee and let us know what you think! Happy reading! Ashleigh Lee Journals Sales Director (International)

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Richard Ovenden Bodley’s Librarian at the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford Q: The refurbishment project turning the New Bodleian into the Weston Library is a major development at the heart of the university and the city of Oxford. What prompted such an ambitious transformation?

“A major transformation needed to happen to stop [the Weston Library] from falling down – or burning down!”

There were three key drivers for the change. The first was very straightforward – the building infrastructure was decaying and crumbling, and a major transformation needed to happen to stop it from falling down – or burning down! In 1999 we had commissioned a report from a fire consultancy which said that if there was a fire in the building there was a one in three chance of total building collapse. As we stored at the time about three and a half million books and a million and a half maps, the papers of six prime ministers, and J.R.R. Tolkien’s archive, we felt that it was something that needed to be sorted out. So we began to suggest to the university that a serious investment was needed. Also at the time we began to really suffer from a serious space crisis across the whole library system. That manifested itself in the new Bodleian Library as piles of books in the aisles of the shelving units. It was a major health and safety problem, and so in

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order to deal with that we had to hire some commercial storage. That was in the salt mines of Cheshire, which we started using in 2004. We thought it would be a very short-term solution, but we actually moved the materials out of there in 2011. At that point we had two and a half million books there, which is actually larger than the entire library system of Edinburgh university – the job that I’d been doing before starting at the Bodleian. So in 2005 we began to reconceive the whole strategy for the library in terms of its physical estate with the new Vice-Chancellor. That meant building a new off-site storage facility that would relieve pressure for several decades on the storage of print in central Oxford. We planned to move low-use print, and in particular journals that had been digitized, into much cheaper storage where we would only call it up in rare instances. “The library’s needs could be mapped much more directly onto the university’s corporate objectives – support of research and teaching and wider engagement with society.” This would let us reuse the space in central Oxford for different things – basically for people, whether they are the general public, scholars, or staff. So we turned the new Bodleian building away from being just a warehouse for books, to being a mixture of storage for the special collections (very rare, valuable

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materials that needed to be in a British standard compliant storage facility), and of space used for new scholarly purposes, or for engaging with the public. Through this period the university’s own strategic aims began to change with a greater focus on wider engagement with society, and so the library’s needs could be mapped much more directly onto the university’s corporate objectives – support of research and teaching and wider engagement with society. The opening up of the special collections through physically opening the building up and creating more exhibition space, putting a lecture theatre in, and making it easy for the public to come into parts of the building – those were all the sort of thing that our external donor community really responded to. At the same time the building will have a new digitization suite, a new conservation facility, a new facility for teaching using primary sources, and also for blending digital and physical scholarship together. Q: The refurbishment project has a stated aim of expanding public access to the Bodleian’s treasures – along with supporting advanced research – bringing two very different audiences with different needs into the same building. How will the library aim to do both, and what benefits will bringing this dual approach bring? The building has been designed as an integrated intellectual whole: so they are not separate activities, they are all part of the same cycle of academic

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endeavour. I think that’s what’s happening to Higher Education more broadly, particularly as public finances come under greater pressure. The impact agenda has become much more “We want to bring our students together with the extraordinary inheritance of 800 years of collecting manuscripts and rare books.” obvious within higher education, very explicitly so in the Research Excellence Framework, but also more generally – with questions like “what’s the point of having a university?” Well, if you can show some of the research that is happening, very erudite, sometimes very obscure research, through an exhibition like the current one we have on medical innovation that’s happened at Oxford University over the last 800 years, you can answer that question visibly. Everybody can relate to Harvey discovering the circulation of the blood, or Josh Silver’s self-correcting glasses, and the library can play a role in helping the broader public understand the excellent research that goes on in a place like the University of Oxford. That particular exhibition had 8,000 people come to it in the first month. That’s what we want to do on a much bigger scale and more professionally, with much better infrastructure in the new building. At the same time we want to bring our students together with the extraordinary inheritance of 800 years of collecting manuscripts and rare books in the university, and to give them direct access to those riches, but in a safe environment that is designed for the purpose. For example in my previous job in Edinburgh we used to have a graduate class once a year in the library and we would bring along a very rare manuscript and a specialist scholar. We would invite graduate students along,

“The building has been designed as an integrated intellectual whole.” and we would get what we thought was a great turnout: maybe 20 students. The first time I did it here, which was on a famous manuscript called the Vernon manuscript (one of the great Middle English manuscripts, and a repository of Middle English poetry), we had 70 people show up. There was no seminar room to house it in, and so we had a queue of people outside. So it is important to have a space where you can actually bring a large group together safely and use technology to enhance their experience

“There is a blended toolset for research which is both physical and digital genuinely hybrid – and it provides the best of both worlds.” of looking at a famous manuscript as part of their research experience. It is

important with undergraduates too: every time we bring in a small group of English students to look at the Shelley notebooks, you can see that it is an experience they will remember for the rest of their lives. We looked for inspiration for the design in lots of places: we went to the university of Texas at Austin, we went to Yale, we saw what was happening at the University of Virginia, and we have tried to take some of the best elements of our peer institutions, and bring them all together in this new space. We are also going to have a space for digital scholarship, where someone can use the latest GIS software whether they are doing earth sciences, or ancient Greek history: they will have access to our geodata specialist and to the latest suite of software and high resolution screens and plotters and the most advanced digital support for their scholarship. Q: Libraries around the world are being changed by the accessibility and flexibility that taking their book collections online creates for their patrons. The Bodleian’s Special Collections include copies of the Magna Carta, maps, illuminated manuscripts, and even documents on papyrus – physical artefacts which scholars are often eager to inspect

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closely as part of their research. How will the Weston Library balance these competing priorities? The refurbishment of the Weston Library is not all the Bodleian is doing, and there is a much broader context. We have been investing heavily in licencing electronic resources, journals, e-books, and making big strides forward there. Our institutional repository is supporting the Open Access movement, and we are moving into research data management as well. Digital tools for scholarship will be provided at the Weston Library: for example you will be able to have access to very high resolution monitors, to blow up details from an illuminated manuscript, flip them round, and change the colour balance. Our conservation laboratory will provide access to multi-spectral imaging equipment, and support a scientific approach to the analysis of physical artefacts. We are working in analogous ways to archaeologists in that sense, and we are actually working with science departments in the university who are interested in doing pigment analysis: you can look at large swathes of manuscripts and using scientific techniques work out where the manuscript was illuminated or where the materials for the creation of that book had to come from. So there is a blended toolset for research which is both physical and digital - genuinely hybrid – and it provides the best of both worlds.

daily customs of the people who lived in that region. For example it shows you how children were disciplined if they were naughty: you put them under your arm and you held their face over the fire, and you put chillies in the fire. The Codex has a commentary written by a Spanish priest in the army of conquest, who translated what was happening in these images into Spanish. The book was put on a Spanish galleon to be sent back to the Emperor Charles V, but the ship was captured by French pirates in “The Codex [Mendoza] shows you how children were disciplined if they were naughty: you put them under your arm and you held their face over the fire, and you put chillies in the fire.” the Caribbean, and it was sent back to France to the court of Henri IV. He gave it to his cosmographer royal, the man who was meant to know everything about the world in the French court, a man called Andre Thevet, and Thevet then traded it with the famous chaplain to the English embassy in Paris, Richard Hakluyt. Hakluyt published stories about global travel, and he published the Codex and made it famous in the early 17th century, as part of his books on great voyages. These kinds of story through space and time are what I really love about the collection!

Q: Given the wealth of material in the special collections, do you have a personal favourite?

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It changes all the time! The collection is so vast that you are constantly being introduced to new things, or things are being discovered all the time. I really love a famous manuscript called the Codex Mendoza. It is a manuscript which was written in the 1520s in what we now call Mexico City. It was written in Mixtec which was the pictographic language of the Aztec people, and it described the

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About Richard Ovenden Richard Ovenden was educated at Durham University and University College London, and has worked as a professional librarian since 1985. He has served on the staff of Durham University Library, the House of Lords Library, the National Library of Scotland (as Deputy Head of the Rare Books Section), the University of Edinburgh (as Director of Collections), and since 2003 at the Bodleian Libraries (first as Keeper of Special Collections, since 2011 as Deputy Librarian, the Bodleian Libraries, and since 2014 as Bodley’s Librarian). Richard sits on the Panel of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, is a Trustee of the Krazsna Kraus Foundation and of the Victoria County History for Oxfordshire, of Chawton House Library, serves on the Council of the Bibliographical Society and was until recently Chair of the Digital Preservation Coalition. He has published widely on the history of collecting, the history of photography and on professional concerns of the library, archive, and information world. Recently Richard headed Oxford’s involvement with the Google mass digitization project. He holds a Professorial Fellowship at Balliol College, Oxford.

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LIBRARIANS’ EXTRAORDINARY Simplicity in Life and Exemplariness P. V. Chinnathambi runs the in Practice: A Librarian Par Excellence Loneliest Library in the World Albert Einstein said this about Mahatma Gandhi and it will be very apt for the man of the millenium Mr Palam Kalayanasundaram: “Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth” It is hard to believe that a 73-yearold frail man sporting a shy smile – just like one would imagine your next-door neighbour’s old but affectionate grandpa – has been bestowed with such great honours for his selfless service to humanity. The Tamil Nadu activist Mr Palam Kalayanasundaram is a librarian par excellence endowed with a will to serve combined with a strong sense of social justice. Awarded as one of the top ten librarians of the world, he is a good medallist in library science, and also an MA in literature and history. During his 35-year-career as a librarian at the Kumarkurupara Arts College at Srivaikuntam in Tuticorin district, he gave away all his salary for charity and did odd jobs to meet his daily needs. He has also come forward to donate his body and eyes to the Tirunelveli Medical College. He was awarded the Man of Millennium award by the Rotary club of India and he donated the prize money of INR 30 lakhs (INR 3,000,000) for his outstanding act of donating his entire salary from first day of starting his job as librarian till last day of his service and also the 10 lakhs (INR 1,000,000) worth of pension money to charitable causes. AWARDS BESTOWED • The Best Librarian in India, Union Government • Noblest of the World, The International Biographical Centre, Cambridge • One of the most outstanding people of the 20th century, The United Nations • Man of the Millennium award and Life Time of Service Award, Rotary Club of India

Mr Kalyanasundaram has founded a social welfare organization, `Paalam’. This is what he says: “We cannot sustain ourselves, unless we contribute to the society in some way or the other. I strongly feel if even one person does his bit towards social good, there will be some change.” They don’t make many like him anymore.

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At 73, P. V. Chinnathambi runs one of the loneliest libraries anywhere. In the middle of the forested wilderness of Kerala’s Idukki district, the library’s 160 books — all classics — are regularly borrowed, read, and returned by poor, Muthavan adivasis. It’s a tiny tea-shop, a mud-walled structure in the middle of nowhere. The hand-written sign on plain paper pinned to the front, reads: This is a low literacy spot in Kerala, India’s most literate state. There are just 25 families in this hamlet of the state’s first elected tribal village *P.V. Chinnathambi, 73, Tea Vendor, Sports Club council. Anyone else wanting to Organizer and Librarian* borrow a book from here has to trek a long way through the dense forest. Would they, really? “Well, yes,” says Chinnathambi, “They do.” His little shop — selling tea, ‘mixture’, biscuits, matches and other provisions – sits at the hilly crossroads of Edamalakudi. This is Kerala’s remotest panchayat, where just one adivasi group, the Muthavans, resides. Akshara Arts & Sports Library Iruppukallakudi Edamalakudi

He lays out his carefully kept 160 books every day during the library working hours. Each one of them is a piece of literature, a classic, even the political works. No thrillers or bestsellers. There were 37 books borrowed in 2013. That’s close to a fourth of the total stock of 160 – a decent lending ratio. The library has a one-time membership fee of Rs 25 and a monthly charge of Rs 2. The tea is free. Black and without sugar. Illango’s ‘Silappathikaram’ has been taken more than once. Already, several more books have been borrowed this year. Quality literature flourishing here in the forests, devoured by a marginalized adivasi group. This was sobering. Some of us, I guess, were reflecting on the sorry reading habits in our own urban environment. by P. Sainath, http://psainath.org/the-wilderness-library/

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS INDIA NEWS Social Media in Perspective: Focus Group Taylor & Francis Group hosted three focus groups on the use of Social Media in the library. Comments from each focus group will help to inform the White Paper, which will analyze the challenges and opportunities presented by Social Media as a communication tool in the library. The first focus group was organized at the India International Centre, New Delhi. The topic of the discussion was The Use of Social Media in the Indian Libraries. Ten senior librarians attended the focus group. Many librarians felt that it was important to have a Social Media policy across all universities and that it should be made a part of the LIS curriculum. The attendees agreed to the need of specialized training to handle Social Media better and that having a Social Media expert in libraries would become imperative in the future. It was heartening to know that libraries in India are using Social Media to some extent and are also aware of various forums that could help them engage better with researchers. The UK event took place at the University of Sussex. Key topics discussed included trends of Social Media in the library community, Social Media as a teaching tool, measurability and the future of Social Media. The final focus group took place in the Taylor & Francis Philadelphia office.

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National Conference on Library and Information Studies

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Taylor & Francis participated in the National Conference on Library and Information Studies (NACLIS 2014) held in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The theme of the conference was ‘Addressing future LIS challenges: through technology, innovation and research’. The two-day conference saw participation from over 300 librarians and academicians from various academic and public libraries and universities across Sri Lanka.

Routledge India Originals, an imprint of Taylor & Francis India and the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in New Delhi collaborated to launch India in the Contemporary World: Polity, Economy and International Relations, edited by Jakub Zajączkowski, Jivanta Schottli and Manish Thapa, at India International Centre, New Delhi.

At the conference, the senior delegates and the key note speaker stepped forward to launch the second issue of Ignite, the librarians’ newsletter for South Asia, featuring the Sri Lanka Consortium, a newly formed consortium that promises to reach out to its 15 universities with cutting-edge research from global publishers.

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India in the Contemporary World: Polity, Economy and International Relations

India in the Contemporary World: Polity, Economy and International Relations brings together Indian and European perspectives on India’s polity, economy and international strategy. The volume will prove invaluable to scholars and students of international relations, politics, economics, history, and development studies, as well as policy makers and economists.

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HAPPY LIBRARIANS’ DAY:

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11 Great Movies featuring Librarians To celebrate Librarians’ Day on 12 August, 2014, in this issue, we bring to you a list of top 11 movies which feature librarians in varied roles. The word ‘librarian’ evokes a strong mental picture in our culture, and the most common reason a librarian appears in a film is task-related: the librarian acts as a human interface to information, usually in a brief exchange. While celebrities might seem more glamorous, librarians are the quiet heroes of the literary world. In our list of chosen movies, they stand up against censorship, uncover ancient mysteries, laugh in the face of computerization and stop the corporate world dead in its tracks. I hope you will enjoy watching these as much as we enjoyed putting them together for you. The Mummy (1999): A remake of a 1932 film, “The Mummy” stars Rachel Weisz as librarian/Egyptologist Evelyn Carnahan.

Storm Centre (1956): Bette Davis stars as Alicia Hull, a small town librarian. When Hull refuses to remove “The Communist Dream” from shelves, she herself is branded as a communist. Desk Set (1957): This 1957 romantic comedy stars Katherine Hepburn as a librarian in the Reference Department at a TV station. When Spencer Tracey becomes the new supervisor, the librarians get angry and the sparks start to fly. Peeping Tom (1960): When Mark Lewis was a child, his father took videos of the fear on his face. Later in life, Mark becomes a compulsive murderer on a mission to make a documentary about fear. He shows these videos to his downstairs neighbor, librarian Helen Stephens. The Music Man (1962): Robert Preston stars as Harold Hill, a swindler in disguise as a band instructor. Hill tries to seduce librarian Marian to keep her quiet about his plans to lead the young boys of a small Iowa town into his world of sin and vice. Hill’s plan backfires when Marian asks the school board for his credentials. Party Girl (1995): Parker Posey stars as 24-year-old Mary, a girl whose illegal party gets her thrown into jail. She calls her librarian godmother to bail her out. She begins working at the library herself to repay her grandmother. While she loathes the experience at first, the job changes her life.

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Miranda (2002): This 2002 movie stars John Simm as a librarian who begins a love affair with a woman who walks into the library (Christina Ricci). Following her after she goes missing, he discovers that she actually has three personalities. The Station Agent (2003): A man born with dwarfism moves to New Jersey after the death of his best friend. There, he becomes friends with a hot dog vendor and Emily, a divorced librarian (played by Michelle Williams). National Treasure (2004): Nicholas Cage stars as treasure hunter Ben Gates in this 2004 action flick. Seeking a treasure the founding fathers buried, he enlists the help of Abigail Chase (Diane Kruger), the curator of the National Archives. The Librarian: Quest for the Spear (2004): Noah Wylie stars as Flynn Carson, a librarian who enlists the help of a martial-arts specialist (Sonya Walger) to recover a stolen artifact from his library. Foul Play (1978): Gloria Mundy (Goldie Hawn) is a San Fransisco librarian who gets tangled up in solving a murder.

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RESULTS OF THE 2014 OPEN ACCESS SURVEY What are authors’ attitudes to open access publishing in 2014? With open access continuing to have a high profile, is all the debate and discussion helping to inform researchers and influence their thinking? With India’s Department of Biotechnology and Department of Science and Technology recently calling for comments on a draft open access policy for publically funded research, researchers’ opinions on open access are just as pertinent in India as they are in other countries around the world. Keen to understand authors’ views on open access wherever they are based, Taylor & Francis have recently released the results of the 2014 Open Access Survey. With just under 8,000 respondents, authors from India were the fifth largest response group, after the US, UK, Australia and Canada. The survey asked researchers a series of questions on their perceptions of open access; their attitudes, values and understanding of it; and what they believe the future of research communication to be. Having previously surveyed our authors in 2013, this latest survey offers some intriguing shifts in opinions, placing responses from both years next to each other to show how views have changed, and to what degree. The survey highlights that positive attitudes towards open access, when discussed in general, are growing. There were significant increases in the proportions strongly agreeing that open access offered a wider circulation than publication in a subscription journal (from 38% to 49%), and that it offered higher visibility (27% to 35%). 70% of respondents also disagreed or strongly disagreed with the statement ‘There are no fundamental benefits to open access publication’, an increase of 10% year-on-year and a strong indicator that open access continues to be viewed as a force for good. This positive picture blurs though when contrasted against authors’ future intentions on publishing their own work. When authors were asked about their future plans for publishing more articles as gold open access, 47% were unsure (the largest group). When asked if they plan to publish more articles as green open access, 46% said yes, with 41% unsure. Could understanding how to deposit their work be one of the causes of this uncertainty? Half of respondents report making their last article green open access, whether depositing it in a repository, uploading it to a website, or giving permission for someone to do this on their behalf. Lack of understanding of publishers’ policies on repositories was given as the single most important factor in deciding not to deposit. Other reasons, in descending order, were lack of time, lack of technical understanding, concerns around discoverability, and around longevity. Licences continue to be a contentious issue, with 53% of authors showing a first or second preference for the CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Despite strong advocates for CC-BY, it remained the ‘least preferred’ option in this survey. However, there is evidence that opinions on this are softening as understanding increases, with this proportion dropping from 52% in 2013 to 35% this year. Dr David Green, Global Journals Publishing Director, said of the survey, “This year’s follow-up survey builds on the largest OA author survey undertaken by any publisher, and provides us with more evidence that we are on the right track in the transition to open access. We clearly have much work left to do in simplifying our policies and documentation so that our author communities are in no doubt as to what their OA options are. We will also continue to inform and work with global research funders and those societies for whom we publish, so that we can continue to improve the services and products that author communities require of a professional research publisher.” The full survey results and top level report is now available on Taylor & Francis Online (http://www.tandfonline.com/page/openaccess/ opensurvey/2014), with findings on open access country level mandates to be published soon. You can tell us what you think of the 11 findings (and see the views of the academic community from around the world) via Twitter, using #oasurvey2014.

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