il in chinese academic libraries: —— looking-back and ahead jiang yongxin research librarian...

IL in Chinese Academic Libraries:

—— Looking-back and ahead

Jiang YongxinResearch Librarian

Shanghai University Libraryjiangyx@staff.shu.edu.cn

86-021-66132072

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Outline

IL development1

IL practice2

Theory exploration3

Possible trends4

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1. IL development

With over 20-year development: A considerable progress

1984 1996

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1. IL development – Stage 1

The beginning stage before 1984 Only a few university libraries offered The courses were often entitled Document Retrieval/

Information retrieval

文献检索 情报检索

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1. IL development – Stages 1

The beginning stage before 1984 How to use abstracts in print was the content Most of the instructed students had the major of

sciences, especially, chemistry

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1. IL development – Stage 2

The thriving stage during 1984 to 1996

three guidelines issued by the Minster of Education of PRC during 1984 ~ 1992 1984: “To launch BI in academic libraries”1985: “Guideline for improving BI”1992: “Requirements for UE”

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1. IL development - Stage 2

The thriving stage during 1984 to 1996

National training classes for instruction librarians 1983 ~ 1986 over 2000 librarians were trained

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1. IL development - Stage 2

The thriving stage during 1984 to 1996

About 30 % of enrollment and 70% of universities and colleges involved

Still with characteristics of manual retrieval skills, mostly because of the facility limitation

NOTE:“More than 700 out of 1080 universities offer various courses on information literacy”. Zongzhong Huang & Li Huang said in their “The 20 year reform in Chinese Libraries", Tu shu guan (Library), 1999 (2): 1-10.

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1. IL development - Stage 2

At the back of IL thriving period from 1984-1996

Collectiongrowth

Space expansion

Information literacy

Facilitiesimprovements

Graduatesfrom lib

& inf schools

Encouraging policies from authorities

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1. IL development - Stage 3

The declined but versatile stage after 1996

Declined first due to the rapid popularization of PC, databases and Internet, most instruction librarians seemed not ready for such a change.

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1. IL development - Stage 3

The declined but versatile stage after 1996

The second but more important reason was the curricula reform, with a 5-working-day system that led to the reduced number of credit courses.

It was natural that the course was cancelled in some universities if the contents given were out of date.

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1. IL development - Stage 3

The declined but versatile stage after 1996

Versatile because the remained part makes more effort

Some draw nutrition from the counterparts abroad Others go on with their own way

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2 IL practice- instru forms

Libraryorientation

forfreshmen

Instructional forms

One-hour lecture

forpostgraduates

and staffs

Credit coursefor

Undergraduatesand graduates

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2 IL practice - instru forms

Library orientation

forfreshmen

Audio-video

Tour + introduction

Presentations

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2 IL practice - instru forms

Library orientation – Audio-video Library Orientation Video Lib, East China Univ of Sci

& Tech http://202.120.96.42/file/play.htm

Library Orientation Video, self- evaluation,Shanghai Univ Lib library orientation

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2 IL practice - instru forms

Credit coursefor

Undergraduatesand

graduates

for all studentse.g. East China Univ of Sci Tech

for undergraduatese.g.Shanghai Univ

Mainly for postgraduatese.g. Shanghai Jiaotong Univ

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2 IL practice - instru forms

Credit course - East China Univ of Sci Tech

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2 IL practice - instru forms

One-hour Lecture

forpostgraduates

and staffs

On special subject

On IT and other skills

On current resources

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2 IL practice - instru forms

Survey of One-hour Lecture by Sichuan Univ Lib

Staffs Doctors 30.5%

Undergraduates Graduates 38.7%

Clients

Client interesting

Databases in English

Discipline materials(Note:http://202.115.54.30:100/cswdc1/cswdc.aspx?pro=1)

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2 IL practice - textbooks

Textbooks related to IL with many disciplines were published

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2 IL practice - textbooks

Textbooks statistics

050

100150200250300350

1981- 1983 1984- 1995 1996- 2002

Ti t l es

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2 IL practice - textbooks

Textbooks reflect the change of the course discipline coverage: general natural sciences & literal sciences specific law,economics,telecommunication,… general natural sciences & literal sciences

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2 IL practice - textbooks

Textbooks reflect the change of the coursecontents -1990’s: manual 1990’s: manual + database 2000-: databases + internet + research skills

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2 IL practice – instru modes

Three instructional modes

Fully e-class

Classroom + e-class

Pure classroom

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2 IL practice – instru modes

Pure classroom

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2 IL practice – instru modes

Classroom + e-class East China Univ of Sci and Tech Shanghai Univ

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2 IL practice – instru modes

Fully e-class

http://www.xauat.edu.cn/ex/tsinghua/software/12/05/001/01/00002/bjjc/wlxxjs/wlxxjs04.htm

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2 IL practice – instru modes

Fully e-class

TILT. Texas Inf Lit Tutorial USA http://tilt.lib.utsystem.edu/

http://lib.bjut.edu.cn/daohang/tilt_final/tilt_index.php

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3 Theory exploration - author

Author distribution by province

1 Liaoning

2 Guangdong

3 Jiangsu

4 Heilongjiang

5 Hebei

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3 Theory exploration - author

Author ranked by article number

Jin Qin National Defense Univ (Hunan)Liu Xuehe Herbin Univ of Eng (Heilongjinang)Chen Zhihong Guangzhou Coll of Sport(Guangdong)Feng Baiyun Qinghua Univ (Beijing)Yang Jia Kunming Coll of Med

HUANGXiao-l, et al. Literature retrieval teaching in Chinese colleges and universities in the end of the 20th Century: its research advances Chin J Med Libr Info Sci,2002, Vol11,No.6 p.4-6

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3 Theory exploration - topics

Research topic distribution

Significance9%

Case studies27%

Surveying8.7%

Instruction reform 33.8%

Textbooks 8%Evaluation 3.5%

Others15%

Chen M. Some thoughts on undergraduates IL. Information Science2002,20(8):872-875

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3 Theory exploration - topics

Several main reform topics Academic library’s roles Information competences Instruction content improvement Instruction librarian training Strategy for extricating from the

straits

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3 Theory exploration – Acad lib

Why academic libraries to carry out IL

the informationized society the internationalized higher education the talented student

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3 Theory exploration – Acad lib

What priorities for academic libraries as the instructional base

Discipline Resource Staff Environment

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3 Theory exploration - Competences

Competences to be cultivated Basic literacy Media literacy Computer literacy Internet literacy

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3 Theory exploration - Contents

Instructional content improvementThree main parts: inf consciousness, inf competence, and inf ethics

Core content --- inf Competence Five focuses: background knowledge concept analysis search strategy inf evaluation bibliographic inf representation

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4 Possible trend – Background

Library development

Service performances Information literacy

30 years ago Library loan :

On site

Person-to-person

Library literacy for readers

20 years ago Reference service:

On site, PC

CD-ROM

Bibliographic Instruction for users

10 years ago knowledge services: On site, networked,

Remote, 24/7

Information literacy for clients

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4 Possible trend – Scale tendency

Estimation for the instruction scale

A

B

C

1984 1996 current

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4 Possible trend – Scale tendency

Estimation for the instruction scale “B” would be the most possible

Reason 1 the OUTSIDE force: the existing strong demand for the inf competence the international advancing step of IL Reason 2 the INNER force: the emerging new library librarians

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4 Possible trend- Instru ways

individualized

Instructional waysInstructional ways

Much moreeffective and efficient

interactive accessiblenetworked

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4 Possible trend – Closer links

Closer cooperation between departments

Media center

Computer center

Campusnetworkcenter

Faculty ofinformation

management

Library

Faculty of Library

Facultiesof

sciences

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4 Possible trend – Content trend

The content would be more fit tothe requirement by the clientsthe information behavior of the clientsthe fundamental concepts, e.g. critical thinking

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4 Possible trend -- Conclusion

IL in academic libraries in China, under the support from the authorities, with the effort of the librarians, its advancing step would be more steadier.

And any questions?