great database debate

Jennifer Robins, Ed. DFloyd Pentlin, Ed. S.

University of Central Missouri

School Library and Information Science

Warrensburg, MissouriCertain materials are included under the fair use exemption of the U.S. Copyright Law and have been prepared according to the fair use guidelines and are restricted from further use

THE GREAT DATABASE

DEBATEThe Professor and

the Madman

http:www.slideshare.net/fpentlin/great-database-debate

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wikiworldcomic/721124150/in/set-72157600647594709/

“From presumed authority to collective credibility. Reliance on the knowledge authorities or certified experts is no longer tenable amid the growing complexities of collaborative and interdisciplinary learning. A key challenge in collaborative environments will be fostering and managing levels of trust.”

quoted by Jonathan Tarr

“Your world is different from ours. We are taught to share information and collaborate. We do it all the time. No one really cares where is came from.”

quoted: Jacqueline Hicks Grazette: Wikiality in my classroom

“satisfice”

quoted by Alison Head and Michael Eisenberg

Good Riddance, Encarta!Christopher Dawson, ZDNet Education, 31 Mar. 2009

“The encyclopedia is dead.

Long live critical thinking.” - Dawson

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Credibility of information

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Credibility of information

From Searchisaurus

John Quincy Adams, the sixth President of the United States, was active all of his life. This was to a great extent because of his politician father, John Adams. They are the only father-son Presidents in the history of the country.

Monkeyshines on the United States Presidents: Games, Puzzles & Trivia: 1990, p. 15-16, 2p. 1bw

Database Tabs

Search Results

Academic Journals

(190)

Magazines(798)

Books

(2)

News

(798)

Multimedia

(2)

Chinese ‘World Book’ Omits Tianamen Square Massacre, Says

Taiwan Belongs to China

Debra Lau Whelen, School Library Journal, 5/23/2007

Wikipedia Hoax Points to Limits of Journalists’ Research

John Timmer, Ars Technica, May 7, 2009

A Call to ServiceJohn Kerry

Just because it is in a book…

A Bold Fresh Piece of HumanityBill O’Reilly

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Do we contribute to the problem?

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Is Information Equal?

Encyclopedias, Almanacs, Atases

Reference Resources

States and Capitals

Dictionary Post Dispatch

World Book Encyclopedia

Quotations Page NewsBank

Fact MonsterCREDO

ReferencceDogpile

Wikipedia SIRS Researcher CNN

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Are DBs 24/7?

Are we teaching in-depth searching?

Google - Related Search

Google - Wonder Wheel

Google - Timeline

Google - Scholar

Google - Books

Richard Byrne “Beyond Google - Improve Your Search Results (Repost), Free Technology For Teachers. Oct. 26, 2009http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/10/beyond-google-improve-your-search_26.html#at

How do we present the databases?Tal

It’s free! Why don’t we use it more?

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Hitting a moving target

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Where do students live now? Where will they live?

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Traditional learning

environments: copyright-protected

publications

Networked learning

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Availability?

We expect significant and

widespread cuts in budget

levels for libraries and

consortia…

It may not be uncommon for library and consortia budgets to decline by double digits year over year.

Once funding is withdrawn over

multiple years, it will be years before

budgets climb back toward pre-crisis

levels.

International Coalition of Library Consortia

January 19, 2009

Explosion of

information-

Do as I say and not as I

do

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Professors use databases?

•74.1% - Use free Web

•43.1% use library databases

Nancy H. Dewald, “What do they tell their students?”

78.9% almost never use dbs

Search

Engines

Print Resources

ListservsOnline

DBs

Digital

Libraries

Websites

Anne Perrault, “An exploratory study…”

NEVERNEVER

ALWAYS

Perceptions

84 %begin a search with a search engine

Perceptions of libraries and information resources: A report to the OCLC membership, 2005

Perceptions

1 %begin a search with a database

Perceptions of libraries and information resources: A report to the OCLC membership, 2005

Where does that leave us?

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Critical evaluation of

resources

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Do a better job of presenting DBs

http://lsnhs.leesummit.k12.mo.us/lmclsn/HomePageNew/Online%20Databases/OLDB%20PAGE.htm

Categorize databases

http://lsnhs.leesummit.k12.mo.us/lmclsn/HomePageNew/Online Databases/ODB-Literature.htm

Easy access to database

passwords

Use Adobe Acrobat to create

a password-protected Word file with all the

database IDs and passwords

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Federated searches that work

Play better with third party apps

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Widgets and Pathfinders

• Worksheets

• Use widgets on library Web sites

http://springfielddatabases.wikispaces.com/History

THE GREAT DATABASE

DEBATEThe Professor and

the Madman

http:www.slideshare.net/fpentlin/great-database-debate

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