All right. I think it's probably about time to get started at the long-awaited closing session. Thank you for your patience, and thank you for joining us. I hope that you've had a good meeting and that you've enjoyed catching up with colleagues, that you've found the sessions informative and thought-provoking, perhaps made a few new connections or added a couple of good ideas to your portfolio of things to follow up. I'm really just very grateful that you all were able to join us for this meeting. We have captured a video of all the sessions, and we will be making that available. So the parallel sessions that you didn't see should be available probably within a couple of weeks if you want to review them. I also just want to note that we had to cancel one session today because the folks presenting had their flight canceled out from under them. But they have told me that they are willing to do a recording of that session. So we will be following up with them. And if we can get that to happen, we will make that available with the other meeting videos. So before we start losing people, because I know there are always people trying to slip off to catch the last flight during the closing session, I just want to say a couple of thank yous before turning it over to Lorcan. First, I want to really thank all of our presenters. I think the sessions were really good, at least the ones that I was able to get to. I was, as always, really blown away by the breadth of topics that came up, and yet how all the sessions seemed to interconnect and cross-reference and resonate with each other in interesting ways. So I ask you all to join me in a round of applause for our presenters. And I'd also just like to ask for a round of applause for the CNI team that has put this together, made it seem like it's going smoothly and easily, as if by magic. And also the AV team that has been with us for many years and has done another great job at this meeting. It's because of all these folks that it looks like it's easy, and they work really hard at it. So thank you. And with that, I'm going to turn it over to Lorcan. Now, I've known Lorcan for more years than I'm thinking either of us really want to admit at this point. We both go back several jobs and several lives ago, it seems. Lorcan, in the time I've known him, has moved across the ocean. The two of us have talked for many years as we've watched the world continue to change. Lorcan has done a long tour of duty at OCLC. And during his watch there has accomplished many things. He is stepping down this spring in his role at OCLC. What I would say about that is he may be retiring from OCLC, but knowing Lorcan as I do, I have every confidence that we are going to continue to hear from Lorcan and benefit from his perspectives on the world that we live in. However, given that he is making this transition after a long period at OCLC, it seemed to be a uniquely good moment to invite him to share some of his thinking with us about all of the things that he's seen about where we are now, how the world may change as we hopefully continue to come out of the pandemic and any other thoughts he wants to share with us. So I'm very, very pleased to welcome Lorcan to CNI. Over to you. Thank you very much, Cliff, and hello, everybody. This is a picture I took in DC at a CNI meeting a few years ago. I'm going to talk a little bit about system-wide types of issues. As Cliff said, I've worked in various environments, but typically I've been in a situation where I've had a system-wide issue. Before coming to OCLC, I worked for JISC in the UK. And before that, at the University of Bath for an organization that was funded by JISC to do work in a UK context, but again, from a system-wide point of view. So I'm going to talk a little bit about some system-wide issues. This is me now. Well, when I got these glasses first, I just end the context of where we are and so on. I did have a life before OCLC. I picked this picture because it sort of dates itself with the cassette tapes in the back there, whatever about my hair, and so on. But Cliff, I was trying to think. I wrote a book called Libraries, Networks, and OSI. I think it was published in 1989 or so. And I did a tour of the US at the time, and I visited Cliff in California. So it's, yes, over 30 years. The, that was my first failure in marketing because, of course, OSI, very few people in the room, probably remember what that was or know what that is. But it was just about to disappear when we released the book. So the book sort of languishes there with this name. That's just a historic artifact, despite all the wonderful stuff in it. Sebastian Hammer was talking to last night. Certainly will remember what OSI is because, as a result of that, we're both veterans of European projects that sort of spent a lot of time thinking about this. So in fact, I know Sebastian for almost as long as I know Cliff. But he did have a life, certainly, before OCLC and before the US. And as Cliff said, I do plan to continue, although I'm not sure where that path will lead. For those of you going to Ifla in Dublin in July, this is the south bull wall which goes out into Dublin Bay. And you should try and walk along it if you go there. But it's meant to indicate a path into the future. It's also one of my favorite pictures of my children there, their way out there. You have to get up sort of quite close to see them, though. This is a picture that was taken by a colleague and gained some currency. It was published in the magazine Ariadne. But I was looking for an early record of those times. But yeah, this is, I reckon, about 25 years ago. I used to have very fine hair. This is an overview of what I'm going to talk about. Those of you who are quick readers can leave now. Lots of pictures. And I'd better speed up as well, because there's quite a few slides there. This is a more structured overview. It's in three parts. First part, I thought I'd have a look at some general things that have happened in the last while. This is a report that we did with Ithaca SNR a couple of years ago. And it was very interesting, from my point of view, moving to the US, just the sheer scale and diversity of the higher education system in the US really mind-boggling. And we spent quite a while driving around Ohio the first couple of years who were here until our children protested. But the Tiffin, for example, which I'll use later, a town in Ohio has two universities. So the scale and diversity are quite incredible. And I think part of what we were saying here was that increasingly one wants to think about library excellence as it were in the context of the strategic fit with the institution, how well it supports the institution, rather than thinking about libraries in terms of the size of their collection, or thinking about some sort of evolutionary tree of which Columbia or Harvard is the terminus, thinking about libraries really supporting the needs of the institution that they're in. And this is especially, I think, to be seen over the last while when we're seeing this thinking that the collection is very important and a central part of what many libraries do, but thinking about shifting a model of excellence to think about supporting the distinctive needs of the parent community, researching, teaching, service, and so on. And in that work, we sort of identified three poles and said that typically universities have a mix of these and may lean in one or two directions. Distinctive focus on doctoral research, distinctive focus on education, a broad-based education. And then, especially over the last 20 years, I lean into a more career-focused preparing people for professional work, looking at credentialing, and so on. And if you think about, you know, higher here at three institutions that sort of show that in various ways. Tiffin, as I mentioned, Tiffin University, really about career success. And this is a list of student support activities. And it's carried around the website. So the library website actually has this list on it so that if the student can see the various other support services from the library and everything geared around student success. Oberlin, I really like this, you know, special spaces, all the spaces at Oberlin are special. But this focus on student success, retention, residential touch experience. And then, University of Cincinnati, Shimo is in the audience maybe. The research institution, but also obviously very strong educational component. And here you can see, drop down on the library, the range of research support services. And if you look at the missions of the institutions, I mean, Tiffin admirably short and brief, educate students by linking knowledge to professional practice.  Oberlin very focused on the individual personal growth development values. And then Cincinnati, an urban public research institution focused on career, on broad-based research, and on the vitality of the region. So really these focuses, and I think part of saying this, though, is to say that I think in the last while, and maybe especially then, pushed on by the pandemic, we're seeing institutions lean into some of that distinctiveness more. What is it that makes them distinctive? What is it that is their special offer, their niche, the way in which they add and create value? This is the universities in Ohio. Quite interesting. I never quite saw them this way before, but Cleveland and the Northwest, Columbus in the middle, and Cincinnati Dayton and the Northeast, Cincinnati Dayton in the Southwest. And some of that distinctiveness, because just of the sheer competition and the amount of activity that we are seeing. Actually, what jumps out at me there is Denison in the middle of the state, just outside Columbus, which of course is the institution where the idea and some of the early work around JSTOR was done. So if you think about research universities, thinking about this audience in this context, obviously over the last few years, a lot of discussion about trust and relevance of higher education, pressure on public funding, really strong importance of rankings. And I highlight that because then that plays into open access, plays into what's important to the institution. Importance of STEM, very strong importance of STEM and the research profile and the research enterprise and the funding profile of these institutions. And I think especially given the last couple of years revisiting the social mobility, regional role, and mission, I think it's very striking, for example, how land grant institutions are leaning into their land grantness in various ways. I think if you think about it, I've been slightly surprised not to see more of a pushback against some of the elite institutions in the context of supporting social inequity and structurally long term. We've had a lot of discussion about meritocracy, various books appearing, a lot of discussion about that and steps being taken in institutions to address that, but certainly an overall leaning into distinctiveness in a variety of ways. This is quite interesting when it comes to library cooperation. So one of the things, Constance Malpass did these pictures, but one of the things that is quite interesting is looking at the profiles then of various consortia when you think about the mix of institutions in them. So this is Ohio link and it shows against those three polls how institutions line up using a variety of attributes pulled from iPads data. So obviously, most research universities are also quite strong in teaching, but you can get a profile by looking at them against these three polls. So somewhere like Ohio link, just thinking of a cooperative venue, really, a broad mix of institutions, a broad mix of interests. Jason Price from Skelk was at the reception last night and he was sort of commenting on that. And I said, well, I have a picture for you tomorrow. And he said, well, I'm not there tomorrow. So from the point of view of consortial activity, when you're in a consortium like this, it's really quite interesting because you obviously, resource sharing, licensing, broad base. But once you begin to move into other particular areas, then the basis for that may shift. And also, different types of libraries have different requirements. So you can see this playing out in sort of consortial activity. Here are two more consortia. And let's see, can anybody guess what this one is? I'll give you a clue. Big. So that's BTAA, Big 10. And you can see quite a strong congruence of profile there. They're very similar institutions. The one that's a little bit of an outlier, very strong research, very strong liberal education is Chicago, less. And again, you can see that. But really, really strong congruence between those institutions. So I'm not sure whether we've shown this tomorrow or not if Morris is here. But really quite interesting. The other one, very different profile, but also strong congruence between institutional interests. That's Palney, the private academic libraries in Indiana. So a lot of small colleges, private colleges, big liberal arts focus. So you can see that those types of consortia sort of sit slightly different in the sense that they potentially can work across a whole range of things. And part of the issue is choosing which things to work on. So I think education leaning into distinctiveness and that ramifies for libraries. And I think the consortial pictures are just an interesting way of showing some of those differences. Second thing really that's changed the way in which we do things is sort of obvious. It's the network. So we have the web and the web changed everything. And no native identity, commerce, or search, though, which is quite interesting. Then we moved through. We had all the excitement of web 2.0. And it seemed to me that there were two ways, two directions, two emphases, two strands here. The first was what I called diffusion. And that was really the whole discussion around democratic leveling, participation, creation, mash-ups. I mean, who says mash-up anymore? RSS, web services, blogs, wikis. This explosion and profusion of creativity, interaction, individual voices appearing. And the idea that all these services were going to spring together. We're going to have mash-ups around the crowdsourcing, tagging, and so on. So all of these things still exist. But in parallel, there was a trend to concentration. So various platforms emerge showing network effects, where there are returns to scale, where the more people that participate benefit. So there's a natural dynamic here of Winner Takes All, the emergence of analytics, discussion about surveillance, then data aggregation, cloud computing, identity commerce search provided increasingly by powerful commercial entities. So we have a situation now where we are in an internet and a web environment that's sort of dominated by numbers of large providers. So that trend to concentration, if you like, is sort of stronger in the longer term than the trend to diffusion, which of course still exists. Because there is all this wonderful profusion. But at the same time, much of our activity is dominated by these large providers. And then we have Web3, which we're not quite sure what's going to happen, decentralized. I would say that the only thing more awful than listening to a library 2.0 presentation is listening to somebody telling you how blockchain is going to change libraries forever. So as a result of this, we observed various things happening. One of the phrases quite like discovery happens elsewhere, because we now have this network full of all of these things. We think about researchers, learners, they're in this network full of all this work. So you want to get into the flow of those people in the network. This is a recent report done by Lean Library based on some work that they did. And I thought it was quite interesting where basically three quarters of faculty and students begin discovery outside the library. And I just put this up as a number confirming something that we know from various sources. And it was interesting that their data, I presume based on their service, shows 48% of patrons begin on Google Scholar. So what this means is that over this time, the library has begun to think about right-scaling its activities. We're in this network. We're surrounded by all of these services. How does the library operate in a network environment where people are using all of these services? And certainly some emphasis on moving services, on thinking about library services at the network level, aggregating, moving up. And if you think about the environment we're in, I think the period during this time, we've seen the emergence of all sorts of really very central and critical network level, if you like, services that we, our users and libraries and so on, rely critically. And I've just assembled some icons there to show some of the things that we're all obviously very, very familiar with, in terms of services that aggregate attention, that create platforms that provide research and learning and discovery services. At the same time, I think, various consortia and cooperative activities have developed services at a level above the institution, sort of network level within their region, within their area. Scholars Portal in Ontario, I think, is an especially interesting service. If we're in the US, it'd probably be much more well known. Scholars Portal, interesting range of services. Ohio Link, really central to Ohio Libraries, California Digital Library, thinking about within a large federal institution, concentrating stuff at a higher level, at a sort of network level within the institution. And then what you get is a question about, okay, institution scale activity, sometimes is a little bit too fragmented, or what should we do at the institution? What should we do in some of these other environments and some of these other contexts? And this introduces what I've characterized, really, as the sourcing and scaling discussion. Where do I source stuff and what should be scaled? Where should something happen? And some interesting examples. At the last, I see an eye, very interesting discussion about CDL and Dryad. So thinking about sourcing CDL's research data management activity with Dryad, because if you source it with Dryad, you sort of get into a flow, you get into a platform, you are where other people are acting. There's an audience has been aggregated already for that, whereas if you do it in a more fragmented way, there may not be incentives for people to participate. It's difficult for you to aggregate a big audience for discovery. And what some of these services do is they aggregate an audience. They have some gravitational attraction on the web. So they overcome some of that fragmentation. Bruce Hedrick yesterday talked about community collections, which I thought was very interesting. So JSTOR, very strong academic brand, has aggregated a large research audience for scholarly materials. So the sort of exploring, what does it mean then to add other types of materials and can they benefit from that aggregated audience? Can they benefit from the relationship with other types of materials? Can they play in a network environment more readily? Can they get into the flow of researchers more readily because JSTOR has that gravitational attraction? And that's in process, and I think very interesting. I would also point to Hattie Trust actually here, because it seems to me, if Hattie Trust had been built 20 years ago, it would be built over institutional repository-type things. It would be federated across. It was built in a centralized way, partly I'm sure for financial reasons, and partly though because there was a feeling, well, what the network wants is aggregation and aggregation of an audience, if you try and do it over lots of individual repositories. So Hattie Trust, I think, quite interesting in that regard. So at the same time, it seems to me, libraries themselves have had these two views of the network, and one is a centripetal one, so you center the library presence on the website. And this is essential, and libraries are doing this. And I think we've seen a move from full collection discovery, where the focus was on a catalog and so on, to full library discovery. I mean, if you look at some of the bento boxes, if you look at some other things, exposing staff profiles, exposing events, exposing the full range of what the library does on the website, and I think we're now moving, especially post pandemic, to think about actually a fuller library experience overall. I think the University of Michigan website is really very full rich deep, compared to a lot of other websites. And it's like, what do we have to do to actually display here the full range of what the library does in some detail and move in. And I think they've done a very nice job with that. But of course, putting the library on the website is a different thing than putting a library on the web. And at the same time, so we've seen this centrifugal force, a sort of de-centered library presence. So unbundling functionality, and placing it in a variety of de-centered network places. So you have communication move to social networking sites, as with everybody else. Metadata being pushed out to a variety of aggregation sites. Even content, going to community collections, or the metadata to DPLA, various other things. Resolver, obviously, people configure the resolver for Google Scholar, embedding resources in a learning management system. SEO, I think, really thinking. I mean, SEO is interoperability with Google. And what is the big search engine that people use, Google? So SEO, something that's really quite important, and something maybe that doesn't get enough attention. Kenning Arledge talks a lot about this. It seems to me, though, this never really crystallized as a service area. A lot of activity happens doing this type of thing. And it's sort of pre-strategic and happens in different places. But the idea of managing that de-centered network presence, it seemed to me, hasn't crystallized as a particular library service area. The picture on the left is something, it's unpublished, it's something I did some years ago. And actually, Gwen Evans, who was here, certainly helped with this while she was in Bowling Green in Ohio. And it's just sort of looking at how the Bowling Green presence on the web is managed across a variety of places, different websites, different services that are sourced from the cloud, communication decoupled to a variety of places, and then content or metadata syndicated to a variety of places. As I say, I think for some reason, this hasn't sort of crystallized as a together-managed activity. So number three, what's a presentation without a four-quadrant picture? So which is convincing, partial, simple, and reductive? I just thought I wanted to get that in first before somebody says to me, that's a partial, simple, and reductive picture. Yes, it's a partial, simple, and reductive picture. So here you have a four-quadrant scale of the community. It's not a good way of expressing it really here. What I mean is thinking about governance, and it's really thinking commercial versus not-for-profit, but also is the organization characterized by a board, which includes community members that is oversight by a board. So if you populate that, you have some large organizations that have a commercial focus, no surprise. You have a variety of organizations, not-for-profit, and this is a little bit subjective where you put them, but very familiar with these. And this is a very limited selection. One could put lots of things here. You've got some organizations that sort of have transitioned over time, and I think it's quite interesting to think about that into larger organizations of greater scale, but still have not-for-profit and governance, including library element. And then you have a variety of smaller systems and services. So the vertical line and scale is a bit subjective. I think one of the, if you think about it again, OCLC and that move, I think one thing that's happened there, and I'll put a little definition of institutionalization earlier, is that they've institutionalized important sort of foundational activities and have managed to, as a result, develop some scale there. I think if you think about the other side, if you think about how she trusts, if you think about DPLA, that we haven't quite institutionalized some of those activities, and it'll be interesting to see how those develop or move over time. Center for Search Libraries obviously has a core role, and you could move it over, or it's, as I say, a little bit subjective. And then I could put hundreds of names in the bottom left hand. And then in the last 10, 20 years, a variety of organizations have either ceased to exist or been taken over by others, or merged, or done, and again, I could put lots of organizations here. DLF Aquifer is not really a separate organization, but I just wanted to take the opportunity to ask, did it ever hold water? The, you know, so, you know, jurors based into lyricists, a variety of companies set up and moved, the ones across the bottom, all acquired by Alzebir Research Library Group, merged with OCLC. So, and again, could have put a lot more on this. Actually, quite a lot of activity. It's quite a volatile information environment and in some ways, the bottom right, just a reference to the recent consolidation with Claribate there. And this is entirely natural. And, you know, I'm not sure what's normal or what one would expect or how it compares or how you'd even do that, you know. So if you think about some headlines in each of these places, if you think about the variety of organizations that are emerging or in that sort of not-for-profit emerging space, what, you know, it's interesting to think about what is the optimal community response? Do we spin up another organization? Do we look at piggybacking on something? Do we do this?  One big issue is investment for innovation and growth. There's a tendency to say, how much does it cost to run that service? And, you know, that's what we need to cover. But to actually grow, to innovate, to change, to evolve over time, you need to have some sort of injection to, you know, innovate and grow. If you don't have that, you're on this perpetual hamster wheel that, you know, of not changing or moving. And then a change agenda. I think various organizations in this space are set up with a mission to change an area, to move an area forward, to do things. So a lot of energy and a lot of coverage of different types of areas. If you think about, you know, OCLC, they have evolved in various ways. And as I say, I do think that institutionalization is an important aspect there.  In the bottom left, you have all of that start-up energy with smaller organizations.  And you expect discussion to change. You know, something has started up, we're gonna change the world, we're gonna smash X, Y, and oh, didn't quite work out that way, now we're selling to, you know, X, Y. But the, you know, it's that type of environment. And typically, organizations will have an exit strategy where they do plan to sell. Or they find a sustainable niche. And we have lots of quite resilient organizations, you know, smaller companies and so on that have a sustainable niche where they're providing very, very valuable services. The bottom right, we've seen over the years an awful lot of that consolidation and as a result, an awful lot of that market power. But typically, organizations in that space very focused on need, opportunity requirements. So I do that just to say that as a community, I think, it's good to be reflective about the industry, the structures, the organizations that support library work. And I do think that's a discussion that could potentially be a bit richer. At the same time during this period under this industry heading, we've had the emergence of open access in a very strong way. And obviously, sort of a long time ago, we had the Academy sourced reputation management and dissemination with third party publishers. So reputation management dissemination basically came back from thinking about publishing citation various other things. Publishing became consolidated, commercialized. So the rise of open access, then in response, we saw a new business models from publishers thinking about flipping various things, diversification into research flows, research analytics, so dynamic. I mean, if something changes over here, something will change over here. You have a, and we're in a situation at the moment where there are multiple paths and not necessarily a single destination. High confusion of colors and metals, I'd have to say. Green, gold, diamond, whatever. To the extent that there is, I think it's realistic to say that only these a hinge lift understands it all. Repository, APC, transformative deals, library publishing, variety of approaches, and then against the background of a broader open agenda. The point that I wanted to make here, though, is that it seems to me that this whole discussion and the environment, we really have very misaligned incentives, which are one of the complicating factors in this whole discussion. So if you think about incentives from a publishing point of view, the publishing field, whatever, it's a market to do business in, to provide value, and to prosper in that context. If you think about scholars and you think about universities concerned about ranking from a scholar point of view, it's a reputation economy, prestige, ranking, whatever. And certainly from certain policy points of view, it's a rational environment that we can design. We can change, but you've got publisher incentives, you've got scholarly incentives. So it's really a situation where I think there are misaligned incentives. And finally, equity and empathy. I'm not going to say very much about this. I thought there might be more discussion about this during the meeting. I mean, obviously we've come through a period where we realized that things cannot be the same. I wrote a sort of slightly more personal blog post than usual there recently, and I have a section in there talking about equity and empathy and a feeling that there has been a turn to recognize issues that need to be addressed. We did some recent work in the project realm, you know, the initiative that's been looking at pandemic issues, infection issues. And the two things that came out of that as areas that people would like support were how to support self-care and morale among their own staffs. I think we've seen this pivot to library staffs and then centering diversity and inclusion and equity during a crisis. So I think we're in a situation where we recognize that equity and empathy cannot just be a sort of verbal febrize that is applied in various places that some real changes is needed. And though that is difficult and has been a personal challenge for all of us in management positions and organizations and various other things that are affected in this way. Okay, so it seems to me those are various ways in which the environment we're working in has changed. And I've been writing, talking quite a bit about collections over the last while I thought might just say a little bit about collections again against that background. And, you know, we've been talking about three things, reconfiguration of library collaboration, collective collection. So basically the network has allowed the ways in which libraries work together to shift and that's one of the factors behind sort of collective collection. The network has reconfigured the information space we work in and that's background for what I've called facilitated collection. The network has reconfigured research work, the work that scholars and researchers do and that is the context for what I've called inside out collection. So collective collections, I'm not gonna say a lot about print collections or whatever, but I just think they're interesting in the context of what I was saying about sort of system wide activity as a collective action problem. So we did some work a while ago with Big Ten produced a report which is sort of very long and complicated. I doubt whether anybody has actually read it all but we were very gratified at the response and there is now a commitment from Big Ten to move forward in thinking about the collection as a single entity to be managed, Mars York and colleagues working on this, the big collection. What I wanted to do though was just to point out the complexity of the environment in which they're working. So if you think about the Big Ten, you've got shared infrastructure in the Big Ten but then various Big Ten libraries are also participating in adjacent networks in Ohio Link, in Palsy, Carly. So there's a complexity there and you take any one institution and you have this type of complexity. So thinking about how when operates there's a certain amount of complexity there. And in doing the work with Big Ten and we talked to a lot of people, sort of really began to think about the issues about working in consortia, about working together to get things done and it seemed to us you have this trade-off or a tension between consolidation and cooperation or autonomy. So consolidate everything. You can integrate user experience, you can manage things easier, you can reduce coordination costs, you can have consortial agency, you can have a body over here that operates on behalf of the consortium move thing forward. But thinking about autonomy, you can be locally optimized, you can be close to the user, pragmatic control costs. So you've got this sort of tension all the time between consolidation and cooperation and sort of trade-offs.  Okay, we can be much more efficient but that means individually people might have less control. We can optimize locally but that means we're not optimizing system-wide. We want to optimize system-wide well it means people have to make compromises locally potentially and then there are a variety of other things. But these are all sort of classic collective action problems where people recognize the common good but it's difficult to make decisions or change things locally because you have to offend a faculty member, you have to change the way things are organized. So there are local factors impeding, moving towards something that people recognize common good. And I think that's a very big issue around a variety of things. And I think it's one of the reasons why consortia are actually so important because they've developed trust in a way of working together which doesn't mean they solve this but there is a basis on which some things can happen. Prospective collection coordination very good example of this that people feel yes, we should be within a consortial context really thinking about our collections together and managing stuff across but very difficult to achieve in practice because of what is required to be done locally. The facilitated collection where basically you have a move over time from the owned collection to the facilitated collection.  And then we have all this external stuff, pointing researchers at Google Scholar including freely available eBooks in the catalog providing access to open access, open education, creating resource guides. So if you think about the landscape where people are actually solving people's information needs, the local owned collection or the acquired collection is one part of this panoply of resources which are articulated in various ways but again I think not articulated in a very purposeful way necessarily because a lot of these things happen in different places and so on. So a unified view of how information needs are being satisfied it seems to me hasn't crystallized. This is an article, a atoll presentation from Queens University in Kingston and Canada and it describes how using that sort of framework they began to think about facilitated collections and really it's sort of broadening the view to think about what is needed for research, teaching and learning. How do we articulate what's just available to us alongside what we own, alongside what's open and then thinking about the range of partnerships and at scale activity that that requires. I put in the corner a picture of a resource guide. I mean, I mentioned I had the LibGuides on the grid. It's really amazing seeing the growth of LibGuides. I mean, they're like the Star Trek where the, what were they called? Tribbles, you open the door and there's two tribbles and you close the door and you open the door and there's four million tribbles. You go to a library website and you look at it and you go to it next week and it's covered in resource guides. You know, it's remarkably successful but I think it's a, I mean, there are a variety of reasons they're easy to use. There may be an economic reason, whatever. But part of it is it's a facilitated collection activity. We want to provide a view onto all of these things that are available that we don't necessarily own but are available in this variety of ways.  Inside Out Library, Workflow is the new content. I'm afraid to go and look at the Purdue website because I just thought this was such a lovely picture. I don't want to discover that they no longer use it. So this is unique collections at Purdue and I just thought it was, you know, you've got some special collections, you know, special things, you've got some digital scholarship, you've got a diamond access journal and then you've got sort of digitized archives, you've got research data management and you've got an institution repository. So, you know, it's just this illustration of the wide variety of materials that are now being digitized, born digital, managed in an institutional setting and then disclosed to the world, shared with the world. It's very different dynamic to other types of things where you take things from the world and bring them in. This is taking things from Purdue and sharing them with the world. Now, you also want to share them with people at Purdue but you're also sharing them with the world. So you want to push them out through a variety of these syndication and other channels. Now, if you think about the scholarly side of that, what we've seen is that if you think about the scholarly records, this is a picture that we've used in a variety of places, you know, the scholarly records used to be the monument, the exhibition that was the book or the journal, whereas now people are interested in methods, they're interested in research data, they're interested in discussion, working papers, preprints. So the scholarly record has become more diffuse, managed in a variety of different ways and we've seen whole range of services emerge, you know, to help manage these types of things in a variety of ways. A few years ago, Annette Thomas, who's obviously moved on since then, at the time was the CEO of McMillan Publishers, she said her view is that publishers are here to make the scientific research process more effective by helping them keep up to date, find colleagues, plan experiments and then share the results. After they've published, the processes continue at gaining a reputation, obtaining funds, finding collaborators and even finding a new job. What can publishers do to address some of scientists' pain points? Well, you could substitute University Library Director for a publisher there. What is happening here is a shift to say, how do we support the scholarly life cycle? How do we support the range of things that people want to do to seamlessly more effectively publish, do what they need to do, to do effective research? And I think in that context, workflow has just become so much more important and workflow is sort of tying data applications, people together and part of the reason it's so important is we're now in these sort of data-rich computational environments where people are doing their work in different ways and need different types of support. This is a picture Keith Webster kindly gave me of services at Carnegie Mellon and it shows the range of research support services that one can potentially articulate around needs and people very familiar with some of these. At the same time, obviously, we've seen, I used this phrase at the last meeting, research reputation industrial complex that basically three organizations building out a research graph, very usefully in many contexts, looking at how to create a resource that allows you to prospect research entities, people, works, institutions, grants and so on in a way that you can then build other services on top of that, a variety of research analytics, research evaluation comparisons, but then also these companies building out research workflow as well as content publishing services and clearly you have some alternatives or some of what they might do, but in the context of the overall research enterprise, that sort of building a research graph really very interesting. And from a workflow point of view, the central importance of ORCID and DOI really critical in this context and sort of moving forward then to institutional. So when you think about what one does on campus and you think about the variety of things one might want to serve, then there are a variety of stakeholders. So my colleague Rebecca Bryant sort of talks about social interoperability on campus is required to actually think about these services and the services might be provided in different combinations or by different groupings and so on and there's not necessarily a predictable role for the library because it depends on people and politics on the campus and the way in which historically things have developed and who has capacity and resource, but a whole array of services required there. And going back to sourcing and scaling, you can think about doing things in different ways. You can build stuff, you can collaborate to get stuff done, you can outsource stuff or you can just refer people. You can say use Dryad, use GitHub. So sort of four dominant ways of doing things and they typically tend to sit in the network in different ways. So if you build stuff, it might be a local activity. So per, per do sort of however, lots of people want to collaborate to get stuff done. So the four technical universities in the Netherlands have a collaboration around research, data management scholars, portal managers, research, data management. You could potentially outsource your research, data management to fig share or somebody else. That could be done by a collaborative organization as well or you could make a recommendation that you use Dryad. You use GitHub, CDL is using Dryad. So it gets very complex. You have a variety of options, variety of relationships, variety of players, variety of places in the network. So thinking about inside out library, content is the new workflow. Clearly supporting the science enterprises become much more important. Positioning the library as a research partner become very important. I owe this again to Keith Webster, workflow, he made the point to me in a conversation that he was very interested in really developing stronger workflow support and services because it was a way of engaging faculty and productive conversations. So years ago they might have talked about, collection talked about, come into the library. So this was a way of reaching out and engaging faculty in important discussions. Very important that the library is positioned as the part of the array of service providers. Different open access emphases. I was talking to Lisa Hinchliffe recently and she made a similar point that you have within potentially the same library a sort of open access advocacy activity here, managing variety of transformative agreements, managing compliance and so on. And then over here maybe a bibliometrics activity sort of telling people how to sort of work with rankings and so on. So and of course multiple stakeholders, diverse service providers and a great variety. I mean this is an area where research practices are so various, communities are so various that it's difficult to imagine any single provider or any single institution encompassing all of that. So really from an inside out point of view really this whole workflow support really quite interesting. In this context this may be a little bit too subtle requires writing out. I do think there's an important distinction between technology as artifact and technologies in practice which is a distinction that this scholar Wanda Orlikowski makes that we sometimes we tend to think about technology as here it is use it. Here's the arc come down, here's the institutional repository, put stuff in whereas in fact people are embedded in a variety of systems where they have different incentives, they have workflows, they have behaviors and so on and thinking about how to change practice, how to affect things in that context and then the technologies affect the behavior which I think just something as simple as citation management is a good example of this where you move from collecting references in word to a situation where you actually have sort of social networking activity built on top of people's citation management because it's sort of that sort of mutually constitutive behavior, technology behavior. Yeah, okay, so to conclude this is a picture I use talking about consortia, you know the four strong elements of consortial activity, scaling influence, ARL, ALA, they aggregate the voice of libraries in various ways. Scaling innovation and scaling learning very important part of what a lot of consortia do, central part of what organizations like CNI, RLP, a variety of organizations scale learning and innovation in various ways. Scaling capacity, individual consortia, individual service providers, scale capacity do things above the institution level for efficiency, for impact to move things forward. So it seems to me that against that background interesting to think about how one thinks strategically. So a lot of library focus is institution scale and it struck me doing the BTAA report and doing some investigation of consortia generally that if you looked at library strategies, library plans, it was a lot of focus on the institution level and a little bit less on the importance of the various collaborations, the ways in which external service providers might be used, approaches to that sourcing and scaling question, where do we want to do this, who do we want to work with, how do we want to get it done and that whole collaborative framework. And it does seem to me that there's a range of sourcing and scaling questions. There are complicated choices about how to source capacity and at what level and if you think about that upper left hand grid that sort of think quadrant, thinking about do we set up a new organization, do we work with these, do we do. And then even internally, do we externalize, do we, I thought the privacy discussion was really interesting from that point of view because it was saying, well, we're creating relationships with a variety of organizations and that introduces elements that we need to think about or we need to manage in that context. I just came from Helen Hock's presentation on storage and again, you have a variety of organizations, you can potentially store things with what happens in relation to them and there is some sort of higher level strategic direction that might be wanted to guide how one thinks about those types of decisions. When to build, when to collaborate, when to buy. Consortia clearly have a vital role but does that come into planning in the same way as some of the local issues? I do think there's an equity issue there because I think a large variety of things moving forward are going to happen in these collaborative contexts where groups of libraries are doing things together and if you're outside of one of those as many smaller libraries or other libraries are, what does that mean? So then you get into the question, do you need system-wide coordination or not for a variety of other things, whether the system is here, here or here and we already are in research, information management, open educational resources and so on, a whole range of issues here where there's a whole variety of activities happening is anything going to, is it sensible to address that in a coordinated way? And then that gets you into the collective action problem. I did say, I really love this definition of institutions that I came across some years ago. It's in this book on networking. Our notion of institution here is very broad. It can be any set of rules, conventions or mechanisms that serve to synthesize individual actions into a pattern of aggregate behavior. So if you think about how do you synthesize across groups of libraries things into an aggregate behavior. If you think about shared print, for example, we're still in an institutionalization phase there because we haven't got to what is the aggregate behavior across individual groups or an individual library may have to make choices about what's the relationship between this and you can think about that in a variety of other ways. So I think there is a set of interesting community questions about when is something useful? When is it, when is trying to do stuff together actually a break on progress? And question is where are those choices made and those conversations, where do they happen? And obviously, we have a variety of organizations that can do that. So to finish a lot of what I say depends on the excellent work of my colleagues which I invite people to go and look at. Here's an overview of the themes that we operate in. Some years ago I spoke at a conference and they mistakenly sent the evaluations of everybody out to everybody. So it was a bit embarrassing because you know some people were, but anyway, I was a bit shocked to read in mind that it said Dempsey is better in print than he is in person. So those of you who want to follow me in print, this is where I am and thank you very much. Are we going to round? We have questions. I'm told we can take a few gentle questions. Thank you. So back to Cliff. Well, Lorcan, I think you left everybody kind of dazzled by that journey through, gosh, probably 25 years of the evolution of libraries as a large scale system. And certainly, as you say, you've been ideally placed to observe that. I really found that fascinating and I hope that you did too. I think there's a lot to think about in there. I hope Lorcan is gonna be willing to share his slides with us as well. So I'm just gonna ask you to join me in thanking Lorcan one more time for a great talk. I wish you a safe journey. I hope to see many of you in the course of the next few months, either in person or virtually. And I look forward to bringing us back together in December in Washington. So thank you again for joining us. Take care.


everybody and welcome back to another episode of Jurassic World and today we're looking at a few of the new updates or like because it's been April Fool's they've done a lot of things to sort of celebrate that of of our saint foolishness they I think I missed it well I didn't record it I did do it it was the frog the giant boss boss frog it was and those people having trouble with taking that thing on I was actually too bad for me I didn't realize that had so much health and to oh it's feastability allowed it to regain all of itself and that's what made it really difficult but I wish I kind of recorded that because I didn't thought oh wait probably probably won't see that again for a while but it was but now this is ending I think in an hour yes less than an hour's time this one I'm just gonna quickly dot all of these also shout out to the people that appreciate my darling skills I don't just realize like how could be this I do play the game okay it does occasionally happen I don't just rag on it for no reason look it comes from a place of love why I wouldn't get annoyed at the game if I didn't care about it did I do just like all of you do when they add more money hungry things and you go right so it's this this event here triple gruff we've got 50 minutes to do it it's another one of those it's the laughing crying emoji my favorite what do we get out of this oh we could get frogs 10 percent chance of getting a frog with technically there's more than 10% chance because I think you get to you get two of the epic so we'll find out but it I love the pictures of them you've got like normal code kind of volcano code and exploding volcano code so the first coat is a little gruff nothing to worry about something with a big hit I think they have crazy armor though no this guy doesn't deflects all negative so you just want to bake it we'll go for more marks that's 150 speed but more marks can take that out next we'll have Billy gruff who has 4,000 health and any armor no armor okay stunning meadow when opponent leaves so never leave these guys so I think what Rex has basically got these two covered it's you know you know completely immune to stuns so that's how we're gonna go with this one and the final one bigy gruff with 14,000 health this one's gonna be a little bit more tricky the bleed of annihilation increased 10% of speed becomes invincible and heals 25% oh oh that's like 3,500 oh 3,500 health I think no maybe a little bit more anyway something like that swap infrosity immune to death oh they can swap in oh mad impact I like it immune to swap prevention but they have no armor they have no resistance to things so I really feel as though and they have does the bigy gruff have anything that goes through cloak no it doesn't destroy shields attack one times critical chance plus 60% okay right Capricorn fury increased damage by 50% for one opponent turn two turns oh is it both of us it must be oh okay but we only get 50% extra attack for one turn immune to damage over time ah that's it so you can't bleed it out and you can't stop it from swapping and it also has a passive I feel like it's gotta be more Rex it's gotta be in the nemes because we can get some crazy crazy good things here Ankylos looks might be pretty decent as well because you can have a counter and you have lots of armor and it didn't seem like it has anything that goes through armor and even imperative suit just for breaking the shield I don't know if any of them have attack all targets so even even something like a flock could be pretty decent here maybe even comes a raptor comes right it might be good you know what I'm gonna go for the full apex team all level 30s let's go let's let's just see what this good thing can do nightfall to fade three creatures we'll start with more Rex hoping for little gruff little gruff oh never mind as big a gruff like instant me oh oh oh my god it's huge why is this thing absolutely ginormous okay um I guess we've got to go for a hit he's gonna do a counter though which is all it gets us grip oh oh no oh and a crit with that as well oh right does he have any priority that's what I'm worried about oh bleed of annihilation well that's okay I don't mind getting that okay we don't get that we do get the crit 6,000 damage right and 90% chance to grip mutton with you oh okay okay I like it I like it I close looks let's go let's get let's get a shield up even if it does you know heal a little bit ooh vulnerability this could be great in fact it might be dead because it's gonna do something to us right oh god I forgot about that oh no forgot about that too oh Capricorn Fury that's not so good oh is it always faster as well oh this not so good do I have this oh oh oh is it immune to stun please don't be immune to stun please don't be immune to stun I feel like you're gonna be immune to stun on you I was expecting a little one come on yep yep and there's the counter oh oh okay yeah oh we can't swap out can we now we oh we lost we lost oh wow oh no how many chances do we get with this like what does he have how much oh god okay I mean I feel as though if we get through this we're good I'm gonna go for a cloak because let's reduce that damage I could go for my hit but I don't think it's gonna do 4,000 damage I could have been wrong actually let's have a look how much damage would I have done 3600 okay so wouldn't be enough okay Capricorn Fury that's fine get more health or at least go for your more help now please I'd love if you go for more health because then I break his shield and then get loads of health back nope okay oh this is medium gruff okay 6,000 damage you are kidding me stiff leg what's this going to do literally nothing decrease okay does it have anything oh it is a counter oh okay okay and there's oh yeah yep yep yep yep right may as well go for this boom that's another one dead all the goats are dying this is fantastic okay I think we could pretty much kill this one hit there's nothing it can do right unbleachable pans oh I didn't mean to do that one but we did that one anyway and oh don't kill me I didn't mean to do that one I swear okay bleed that's fine does he do anything on a swapping though okay that's fine just a little little bit of a headbutt on the swap out I'm gonna go for a minute yeah I'm a fool does it have oh it's 90% armor oh that's what the armor is okay well this might not be so bad because I'm gonna get counters off and I can always heal myself not a problem and there we go I think we're good wounding headbutt depends how much bleed that does but doesn't I don't think it matters at this point we do that get the counter oh yes okay so you this felt like a good team as long as you have these guys level 30 don't need to worry okay and only 513 blued brilliant okay so you could do three losses so it's quite lenient okay I think I beat the frog first time when I beat the well obviously I beat this go first time but that's it if you got those level 30 apexes it's a walk in the park if I gotta be honest but will we get any froggy DNA okay don't know I'll take the frog DNA 60 indominus Rex you know what I think I need this for something and I think it's for the Toronto metrodon that's what I need this guy for so I don't mind that we've got an event right now to like harvest this DNA also I don't know what I'm putting this up I might put it up tonight I don't know it's April 1st isn't it oh god no whoops oh that was that one I didn't know you could get one yeah maybe I'll put up tonight because there is the tournament it's doing it like an extra battle for the tournament so we have fight we've got here nice yeah that's I think this first time we've ever done it but it's because we've got an extra and really that's the reason is what's called atroatrocodistus atrocodistus that thing 400 the difference between this 250 and then this one 100 and the next one you know it's only 1,000 5 oh sorry 15 150 thousand extra you need but you really only get a hundred so the biggest jump is really this guy if you get incubator level 20 that's all you need or at least I'm level 20 but it's incubator 9 that's right that's a mouthful so actually what we are gonna do is at the moment I cover what is 370 bucks we're gonna go we're gonna do more of these battles because like for what for a start it's a bit random that the things you can put in like if I try and put in this guy know you can't put any of those in but you can put sarco rixies in oh wait does my cop yeah I'll put copies in hell yeah I got like level 28 copies they're actually not too bad whoo this out the wild hell yeah we'll take that oh I didn't see that there a guano oh so it meant I'd want to go on oh don't just gonna go on I was not good that's bad poop I think all right these are good though there's no feet darts they're usually the worst those things this one's that was a nice easy one a cool 300 and broke my record what can I say I'm just so good right that'll do sweet that sort of appeared out of nowhere what else we got anything good we can just pick up for free there's something behind that are two capra sutures do we need capra sutures I don't think we need capricious okay let's see because I'm doing really good in this because I don't know I've gotten lucky let's do a couple of battles and see if we just get a little bit higher I never seem to do these tournaments as long as I get my 10 takedowns I'm happy because you you win as many cups as you lose so if you win one or you lose one it's like oh well it's you just need to be on a streak and then just leave it be okay that was good because we got a level to Toronto metrodon yeah I've also noticed a lot of people putting oh god that's a boosted one as well you kidding me whoa does he have anything to lower oh dodge and lowering my attack I think it does alert fearless yeah lowers the attack okay fair enough news from our straight through and killed one I'll take the help I'll also kill another one of you please evasive dodge damn a level 30 oh don't mess around with this guy okay so now even more health I'll take it how much is that 1,000 that's great and then just another hit okay okay I think we killed him oh no he still has his dodge active that's right okay I don't mind taking this hit because it might just leave me below half health that's great he doesn't have any priorities now I'm a below half health yes I am it's such a tag no Tyra's role bomb not only do we go first priority hit everything we get increased attack increased speed and extra health I've never been able to do that like that flick I've never been able to oh okay okay you know what you want to go for cloak let's bring it on I think I fought somebody in this who just did I think it was it was flock after flock after flock it was ridiculous but you know that's fine I'll just take the little bit of here I can he's like yeah I got this guy wait this is no this must be a glitch this isn't ranked to he's no rank weird why you call the run to I bet he saw that I thought oh god even this is ranked to I mean yeah you kill one but is it your revenge cloak because that would be your best oh oh okay I think he's given up if I was him I probably would have like done another cloak because you're dead yeah there we goes to nail can we can we get a three-nil can we get a three-nil like I said I'm never any good and it's it's oh god a mono stagger top with max attack boosts what I am so confused what is going on here that is ridiculous I mean I'm just doing that because why not group decelerating okay so that's gonna hit everybody fair dues fair dues what could you do now shall I just I think at this point it's done it doesn't matter what happens here he may even just go for a shield greatest on impact there's a chance he could stun me here well there you go am I below half health again oh not quite not quite yeah he knows it's like a modest thing a toss of max boosts and a fricking arch and whatever that thing is with max boosts as well the hell that is nuts I love the random things we can come up across against come across against L type every time every day right okay fairgrounds let's go please be to run a metrodon it's my only way I can win no rexy it is then none of my extra boosts but you know it's rexy oh okay okay that's good it's not a faster rexy that's fine it's only level 29 oh I mean you have to write rexy fee rexy sorry I mean he could easy kill me here though I just something with a priority move it does a lot of damage it's got level 29 rexy this guy could be good also I need to check out the easler event because I don't I don't know what that is at the moment I think it was the tiger thing and I've been putting that off and I think it's probably gonna run out you know at the end of this hour oh yeah there we go there we go that's what you want oh oh my god this thing's got boosts it's a level 30 scorpion and it's got boosts on it that is crazy what is with these people how did they do it okay nullified my oh god how much bleed though I think it's gonna be a lot just enough even okay okay um I really don't know what the best thing I mean my copies I've actually kept the it there's the speed on them I was about to take them off because I got the free speed boost in the mail he's used his innate in fibrling impact so that's really what the scorpion uses to just lock down comps or after and kill everything I mean he could bleed me yep that's fine and then in fibrling stinger that's also good depends on which damage he does with this bleed oh it's it's a bunch okay can I get help back oh I can sweet and it's gone oh he swaps out swap prevented and alert scurry you're not the only one with an epic that's also got loads of boosts on it but it's not level 30 I bet he's got oh my god he's got sinus seratops boosted and oh wait I say boosted it's got a couple of speed on it but that's it at level 29 though this guy does not mess around man kind of like it I never faced this thing so I don't know if it's any good we'll just reduce its attack like brace heal a hundred percent damage that does that mean that it just heals oh that'd be really good if it does stunning obstruction when an escapee okay does it stop you from swapping though unable to swap am I am I able oh I have a 50 percent chance to negate that I may as well try because I will oh no okay well there you have it this is being a close one though right and he's doing the brace does that give him a hundred percent of health no oh maybe he was gonna go for the instant rend okay okay I mean I if I put loads of attack on t-rex I could win this now that's crazy though the level 30 scorpion damn nuts okay okay so what else is he got because he can go for lethal wound which I think will kill me because it does 33% and I've got no reason so it's a draw oh I should have swapped oh my god of course there's things level 30 and it's gonna do like 2,000 or not damn it oh my god what's it 2,000 damage that's a crit oh my god why there was no way I am amazed that I survived that long I mean this is it right like I feel like I'm playing as a normal player these are really good dinosaurs therefore I put all my boosts on them I guess other people might play it a different way where they're you know tournament creatures they put all the boosts on on those tournament creatures to get better rewards but at the same time he had what was it the Andrew tops and that had max boosts on it or something ridiculous and that hasn't been used in ages so that guy fair play to him all right and let's end it with an actual PvP battle a win a loss you see what I mean like but the tournaments it's as if I didn't do anything I I'm just exactly where I started and I've you know it was for 10 minutes that took and I guess I increased it I guess I increased my total number of trophies but then if I want to beat that now I need to win two games in a row or you know two games at least and not lose more and I don't know it just feels like if you lose you should you shouldn't lose as many trophies as you won you know what I mean like you win if you win you gain 30 if you lose you lose 30 make like 25 or 20 at least so it's not so bad anyway it is what it is what am I gonna start with oh Gemini does yeah let's go Gemini does Gemini this is good here we go a ref now was that the best thing for me to have started with I mean I've come so raptor so that would be a horrendous one to start with Toronto Metro dawn yeah I'm glad I didn't start against ref ref's just great for nullifying all attack I mean I I guess I guess this isn't so bad but at the same time I'd like to actually have about it's all fair enough you know winning in everything but I do like a bit of a challenge sometimes maybe that was just it took too long god this guy started playing in 2020 ooh that was two years after it it begun but he still got ref unless he's just choosing to have the 2020 because I think no matter what it like the early you started the more of those medals you unlock so if you started in 2018 you also get 2019 you also get 2020 so it kind of renders them redundant so minimum he could have started 2020 could have been an older account oh what level is 29 or 30 what we thinking oh 28 okay this this is my guy I don't even have a level 29 I think it's level 28 as well no no what must open into please don't be the flock I feel like there's something else to the right of this and I can't remember what it was what was it we're about to find out oh the scorpions okay okay well he can still do 3,300 nods I can't really stun him I can swap out though I might be to I'm just I'm just gonna swap what's great about this is the scorpions don't come in and do anything so I can pretty much just leave if I want to and that's exactly what I'm gonna do I'm gonna make him face my Gemini no you don't get to have that dear yo okay okay you take all my armor off but you get a counter increased armor again and yeah me as well and he might swap out what's my armor on my arm is on 40% but this is if it's a crit he's dead I mean maybe you might have just survived but still come on come on come on oh he's got armor forgot about that no yeah how did oh did you break my shield oh they're just a passive yeah there we go we killed each other the way it was meant to be double knockout okay that looks brilliant okay let's bring it is still okay okay maybe I've gone now how about a rag to Toronto Metro dawn oh I feel so sorry for you know you're going to die I mean actually he might get a stun he might get a stun I got 75% chance let's see what happens here it's the last thing oh he didn't get it oh he's definitely did oh I don't know what your other dinosaur was but there was a we're almost a new blood I feel like we should try we should try one more win and we get into new let's do our final battle and we get to do blush yours oh right oh it's the one imagine on let's go now like I said could have been able to do a level 30 German ideas if I'd paid for the past I'm not that bothered I will eventually get that level 30 Gemini is oh this level 20 that damn I've just realized that their health on this sucker attack is 1800 so he hasn't maxed out the attack he also hasn't put any speed on it either so reduce the speed reduces attack did he do the same or to do increases on that was that was that the best thing he should have done do you think I don't think it is I don't think it is okay right because whoever gets their priority hit I mean he's his health his halfway help point is 4,700 ish so he's still a ways offered I don't know which was better should I went for my armor first I think I probably should have went for my arm I would have been smarter definitely would have been smarter I'm closer to my halfway it was just 4,200 not 4,600 like him oh my god he's got a hundred percent of Jesus oh let's go I think he's gonna get his party though he's gonna get his party always wasted it oh the fool unless he's just wanting to swap out now he might be just wanting to swap out now let's do this I've got a hundred percent I don't think I can kill him no I can't kill him unless I get a crit which is only five percent chance I feel like if I was him I'd swap out now I mean that's that's what you do right I do have 40% armor but that's that's still put me in the danger zone for a lot of dinosaurs that swap in so if I was him I'd be looking at my what what can swap in to do damage and there we have it does it go through armor I think he might we didn't he didn't go through armor oh that's a bugger okay okay but we have our trump card and our friggin trump card is oh do we do it instant instant we're not quicker than him we're not quicker than him okay so an easy way to kill Alberta Serbia is this thing there's nothing really he can do to kill us and we've pretty much killed him this big hit he can't swap out now he's gonna get no health we've got our priority we just need to make sure actually doesn't matter yeah cuz he's not gonna get speed is not gonna get speed he's guaranteed to kill one we're still quicker so it doesn't matter he can go for his instant furious whatever but because we got priority and we also will higher speed we've also got party and boom there you go that was it think you gotta use your brain this is it this is the one this is the one for the new blow shores we got it we got it gotta put our thinking brain on oh no oh no okay I think we've died yeah we're only gonna kill one this isn't so bad because I think he only has dodge for one turn okay okay okay we're still in with a chance here we're still in with a chance so yeah you go for that he thinks he's in it he thinks he's got it now I'm gonna I'm gonna get the best fight I can with Toronto metrodon hopefully he goes for a big hit I'm hoping I'm hoping he does go for the lowering my attack because that's gonna do 3300 he's gonna have to if he doesn't do it rampage and run interesting tactic okay yep guarantees to survive okay let's see what comes in oh swap ah never mind never mind I mean we're gonna get some health here it's not much I'm nervous man I'm nervous it's close it's very close I'm gonna get oh Toronto Valkyrie it's definitely gonna be quicker I hope that he swaps me I kind of hope that he swaps me yes yes you fool wait what levels of Toronto Valkyrie it's 28 my guy my guy okay fair enough swap me but does he get a shield when I swap out oh he does oh but this isn't worked out for him because it comes by Toronto Valkyrie doesn't do much but I increased my attack he hasn't increased his attack he's got like 241 Jesus all I need to do now is swap him out I mean he's probably gonna go for 3000 right actually I'm kind of tempted because I'm thinking if I stay in here I don't know what what extra speed he's put on himself this could be very interesting this could be very interesting right here it is okay because if he swaps in he'll get one of his dudes back right there's no bleed 2000 how much damages you do three thousand oh he might be done he's done I think we did it that's it that's it he's gone he's gone he's gone I think right we get that oh wait Gemini does I forgot about this thing I completely forgot about Gemini does right right right right there's the counter brilliant he's gonna go for his priority that's fine and then depending on what he does here he's gonna expect me to switch into Toronto metrodon he's got to expect that right okay there it is he did expect it well done well done okay he predicted me doing this but he's he could switch to his Toronto Valkyrie I think he's going to I think he is so I'm gonna switch to my Toronto Valkyrie he might switch a comps are up to though he did it he did it he just made he could have switched to his comps are up to he cut him and I might be done at that point oh my god what a final well done Johnny Maran you wet that was a brilliant brilliant battle there and finally it has happened she was back and haven't spent a single penny since okay maybe about one pass or two passes but you know what I mean I heard that there we go okay guys we're gonna wrap it up here be sure the video leave a like until next time I'll see you cuties later oh bye bye


We built a Barbie dream house for Christmas this past year You want to see what it looks like? So yeah, we filmed this clip thinking that it was going to be a complete disaster and it would be hilarious But it ended up taking me just about a half an hour to put it together and For those I mean initially I had a like one of these oh, it's made in China It's made of cheap plastic, but if you ever realize how much effort goes into designing these toys From the 3d CAD models to the manufacturing of the pieces and packing and distribution of this. It's it's a It's amazing. They even make any money on it I think they make the money on the dolls and they might even take a loss It probably was in the neighborhood of millions of dollars to Design Manufacture and produce this toy, but it's a lot of fun. It wasn't nearly as bad as the Princess carriage I built last year which took all like many many hours and it was frustrating as heck so We were happy. So yeah, that was it basically. I think in the end 150 bucks or whatever we paid for it was worth it I Guess you only have one childhood and I guess a little bit of imagination and fun goes a long way Please hit the like button and the subscribe and stay tuned for further videos


What's going on guys got Kyle here relating sports cards, and we are ripping this is 2022 tops MLS soccer Five box case break number three. This is random hit style. So we'll have Donnie typing in the hits as we go along Once we have them all out We'll do a randomizer at the end with the hits and the names of the people in the break And we will see who gets what and good luck guys. This is renaissance five box number three Again guys, we have number four coming up after this one. We'll have Donnie dropping a couple links here Still seven left on the next one. Alrighty. Good luck guys 2022 tops renaissance MLS Maybe two in case cards per box here. We have Jossi Zardis nice one there numbered 14 out of 20 The Colorado Rapids their former team USA player Jossi Zardis numbered 14 out of 20 for the Rapids This one is one of five got Chicharito Nice one there for the LA galaxy on the patch auto Now one is player worn on the memorabilia there nice one for whoever gets this Chicharito The bee from one of their sponsor pouches I have to guess Nice one there Chicharito for the galaxy one of five Alrighty guys box two 2022 MLS renaissance Bunch of spots came in guys appreciate that I'm still got some baseball and football spots as well as this next tops renaissance coming up next Alrighty box two. Good luck. This one is the 20. It's gonna be Jack McGlynn on the rookie for Philadelphia Union there Jack McGlynn on the renaissance engravement auto Almost 14 out of 20 or sorry 18 out of 20 Jack McGlynn another patch auto here It is four out of ten. This one's gonna be Lucas Zalarian For the Columbus crew there with the nice player worn patch. It's like a little sponsor patch there as well That is four out of ten on the Lucas Zalarian for the Columbus crew Friday box three one is number to 20. It's gonna be Paxton punk y'all for the FC Dallas Nice one there on the base auto there 13 out of 20 Paxton for Dallas Another patch auto this one is one out of ten. It's gonna be Josef Martinez. Nice one there for Atlanta United That's some really good years for you landing right there one out of ten on the player worn material there Joseph Martinez for Atlanta One out of ten Alrighty guys box for MLS renaissance got another one coming up after this Still got seven left in stock guys you get one of these cards per spot on these We're doing right now Donnie's typing in the random hits so every hit that comes out Donnie will type in then at the end we'll do a randomizer and see who gets what this is Brenner on the one of five auto there for FC Cincinnati That's a really clean auto there nice one there one of five on the Brenner for Cincinnati Very clean auto actually and this should be our patch auto Hey doing good Nicholas. How you doing? Definitely doing good Got five out of 20. This one is Miles Robinson also for Atlanta United on the player worn material five out of 20 miles Robinson Some cool-looking patches in here. Alrighty guys box five MLS renaissance We've got two out of ten this one is Walker Zimmerman For Nashville there on the red auto team USA defender there Walker Zimmerman for Nashville two out of ten and last one It is going to be 13 out of 20 another auto for Brenner Out of FC Cincinnati there on the player worn memorabilia auto He's do have it kind of remind me like a dynasty looked for sure. Yeah, very clean Nice one there 13 out of 20 on the Brenner patch auto this time Alrighty guys, that'll do it for the five box case. Give me just a second We'll have Donnie type in the rest of the hits here and then we'll run a random see what everybody got Alrighty guys, let me roll a dice.  Good luck on this Going six times five and one six times on the random And look guys is the go the names first we have Arcadius P down to William M. Good luck. Good luck six times one two three four five and six Got Cameron L down to Chris L And we've got the Jazzy Zardis auto down to the Brenner patch auto going six times on this one as well There's a one two three four five and six Got Brenner patch auto down to the chicharito patch auto one of five Copy this over guys. Let's see what we'll read off what we got.  We'll get number six going right after this


So for the southeastern part of New South Wales, there's still severe weather warnings active at the moment and we're anticipating a very wet day today. Further 100mm plus in some areas in the southeast of the state through the remainder of the day on Wednesday. By Thursday the heaviest rainfall will be starting to target Victoria and we expect to see those rainfall values really dial back through southeastern New South Wales on Thursday and by the end of the week it should be much drier. Of course the flooding risk can persist even after the rain has stopped falling so that may well last several more days. Also of concern coming up are forecast thunderstorms and supercells that may be approaching the northeast part of the state. Those supercells may also have damaging gusts of wind and large to giant hail. Again the New South Wales SES has prepositioned assets and flood rescue teams and equipment and people to deal and respond to that but the most important thing we can do is ask the community to stay safe, make sensible decisions and not drive into flood waters. We undertook a number of rescues overnight, seven at the moment and the seventh one is currently underway and now at the moment. There's no serious danger for anyone there it's just a car that's driven into flood waters. Those two people will be extricated very shortly. What we're going to continue to see is more heavy rain in the southeast corner of the state over the next 24 hours. We've got forecast falls of over 200miles along various locations on the south coast and the potential for falls up to 300mm. Of course this will result in further flash flooding.


So the next thing we ought to consider are multivariable equations. So a multivariable equation is an equation that involves more than one variable. So we can solve these equations for one of the variables in pretty much the same way that we solve any other equation. So we can identify the type of expression that we have, apply the same operation to both sides based on our expression, and when the equation is rewritten so that we have one variable as an expression of the others, we have the equation solved for that variable. And it helps to focus on the operations that specifically involve the variable of interest. All other operations are not really that important except for bookkeeping purposes. So for example, let's say I want to solve for R of t in this multivariable equation. One of R of t equals one of R of 1 plus one over R of 2. So R of 1, R of 2, R of t, these are all variables. I want to solve for R of t. Now the variable of interest is R of t. So I really don't care that over here I have one divided by R of 1, one divided by R of 2. I have a sum. What I really care about is that over on the left hand side, R of t is a divisor. So first of all, because it's a divisor, because it's in the denominator of some fraction, it can't be equal to zero, so I'll make a note of that. Next, the thing to observe is that I am dividing by R of t. Again, I don't really care what I'm doing with R of 1 and R of 2. I am interested in solving for R of t. I'm dividing by R of t, so I can multiply by it to undo that operation. So I'll multiply both sides by R of t. Parentheses are cheap. Don't forget to use them. R of t is being multiplied by everything over on the right hand side. And I can do a little bit of cancellation. And, well, a little analysis goes a long way. Again, I want to solve for R of t. And here I have R of t times some other factor. And what that means is I don't really care again what's going on in here, as long as it doesn't involve the variable I'm trying to solve for. This is R of t times something. And since I want to solve for R of t, I can divide by that factor. So R of t is 1 over this factor here. And I have that equation. And because this is now in the form R of t equals stuff that doesn't include R of t, this is now solved for R of t. Well, let's take a look at a different problem. We want to solve this equation for k. And note that k appears in this term and also in this term. So what I might want to do is I might want to start by isolating the k term. So the left-hand side of the equation, this side of the equation, there's a k term here. It's added. So I might want to get rid of any non-k terms by a subtraction. So there's my equation. I have an addition over on the left-hand side. So I will undo the addition by subtracting. And that gets rid of the 3x squared. So I have all on the right left-hand side just k terms. On the right, I have a k term as well. So I want to eliminate them from the right-hand side. So I have k terms on the left. I want to not have k terms on the right. And I'm adding over on the right-hand side so I can get rid of them by subtracting. So I'll subtract the xk. And so cleaning up, this is what I have left over on the right-hand side. Over on the left-hand side, I have 3y squared k minus xk. Now, it might not be obvious what to do next. So here's a reusable rule of thumb. And as much as I hate reducing mathematics to jingles, here's a nice one that actually turns out to be useful. If in doubt, factor or multiply out. If you're not sure what to do next, if you ever get stuck on a problem, try factoring or multiplying something out. Now, what this does requires you have to be able to identify which of these two things you can do. And the thing to notice here, again, we don't care about anything except for the k terms. The terms involving k are subtracted. And that means that I can apply the distributive property and factor. Remember, factoring changes an addition or subtraction into a multiplication. And I have an addition or subtraction. I have subtraction here, so I can factor. And I'll factor a k out. And that gets me this expression there. And, well, now it's clear that what's going on. Again, I'm trying to solve for k. I now have k times something that doesn't involve k. So I can divide by it. So I'll divide by that factor 3y squared minus x. And that will eliminate it from the left-hand side. And I'll have k equal 2. And again, I have this expression that does not involve k. So I have solved the equation for k.