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Information habits in continuously changing
information environments
Digging up the core of information literacy!
Hamburg University of Technology TUHH www.tub.tu-harburg.de TUHH University Library
Thomas Hapke - November 2013
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Put the three spheres of information literacy in order
of importance! 1) Find / access/ locate
2) Evaluate / discern / judge 3) Use / communicate / produce
123 231 312 132 213 321 ?
Idea: Geoff Walton, Mailing list lis-infoliteracy@jiscmail.ac.uk, April 20, 2012, see also his LILAC 2012 presentation at http://www.slideshare.net/infolit_group/walton-12685154
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Developments in modern information environments!
Social Web Discovery Systems Global players Mobiles Devices …
(Wenger, E; White, N. & Smith, J.D.: Digital habitats : stewarding technology for communities. Portland, OR : Cpsquare, 2009)
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Social Web
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Information system
Object
User
Subject
Search query
Search result
Information systems change: In the past user and system were divided!
Information specialist
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Information system (e.g. Wiki, Blog,…)
User 1
User 3 User 2
„learns“ together with and from other users through the system
„learns from users“
changes through users permanently
e.g. „Tagging“
Users are co-producers of information
systems (Web 2.0)
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Changing …
• the role of professionals and experts • the role of learning • the ways information literacy is learned • the contents from information literacy education
Information literacy is no product, good or commodity submitted from the expert to the layperson!
Preece, J. and B. Shneiderman (2009) “The Reader-to-Leader Framework: Motivating Technology-Mediated Social Participation,” AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, (1) 1, pp. 13-32, hier S. 16 http://aisel.aisnet.org/thci/vol1/iss1/5/
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On the future of competences!?
„In diesen Tagen darf sich niemand auf das versteifen, was er ‚kann‘. In der Improvisation liegt die Stärke. Alle entscheidenden Schläge werden mit der linken Hand geführt werden.“ „These are the days when no one should rely on his ‚competence‘. Strength lies in inspiration. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.“
Walter Benjamin, Einbahnstraße, 1928.
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The library is a room for making experiences and learning, not a ware-house!
Consequences for libraries!?
Grainger Engineering Library, Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois
Graphics: D. Bieler
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Discovery Systems
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„Wir sind doch nicht blöd“
(We are not stupid, however)
From http://log.netbib.de/archives/2010/08/25/wir-sind-doch-nicht-blod/
Searching for a book by Clemens Knobloch in library catalogs!
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„Wir sind doch nicht blöd“
(We are not stupid, however)
From http://log.netbib.de/archives/2010/08/25/wir-sind-doch-nicht-blod/
Searching for a book by Clemens Knobloch in library catalogs!
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TUBfind The library catalog as search engine
Project with open source discovery software VuFind: Blog: http://www.tub.tu-harburg.de/tubfind-blog/
Software: http://vufind.org/
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TUBfind search
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TUBfind search
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Catalog interfaces TUBfind Classical catalog interface
• Search engine for TUHH library holdings
• Including articles from journals and national licences
• Including TUB web pages and TUB blog posts
• Searching for all resources of GBV Common Library Network possible
• Search philosophy: Best match, relevance ranking
• Only TUHH library holdings
• No journal articles
• Searching for resources of GBV Common Library Network in other database interface
• Search philosophy: Exact match, Boolean combination of search terms
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Bücher finden!
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Information literacy and discovery systems
• Does the existence and use of discovery systems change information literacy?
• Is the need for information literacy a function of the user interface?
• How do indexing, data structure and links, cataloguing rules behind the user interface prevent optimal results when searching for information?
• Which components of information literacy are actually not necessary to get the best search result?
(See also the discussion at http://plan3t.info/2012/04/05/verbessern-discovery-systeme-die-informationskompetenz/)
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The searchability of information depends on choices made by authors, publishers, database providers, users
and others
(Adapted from Falciola, 2009)
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The social construction of search results
Results in a specific search system
Contents or documents in the system
• indexed content: bibliogr. description, abstracts, full text
• „enriched“ data
• controlled vocabulary included
Specific user and users
• information behaviour e.g. used search terms
• information literacy
• former searches of specific user and of other users
System‘s „properties“
• user interface
• indexing (Boole, best match)
• structure of data
• transfer of data to search system
• used cataloguing guidelines and its institutional or personal interpretation
Other impacts
• advertising economics of provider
• ...!?
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Global players
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How full text have been found from TUHH
Access to full texts 2012 at TUHH as a function of the information source („Clickthroughs“ of the linkresolver SFX used by TUB HH)
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A critical view on discovery systems:
“Thinking the unthinkable: a library without a catalogue” - Simone Kortekaas, Utrecht University Library, Netherlands, 2012 [1] „Giving up on discovery“ – Dale Askey, McMaster University Library, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 2013 [2]
How to improve delivery of materials purchased and licensed by the library? [1] http://www.libereurope.eu/blog/thinking-the-unthinkable-a-library-without-a-catalogue-reconsidering-the-future-of-discovery-to [2] http://taiga-forum.org/giving-up-on-discovery/
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„On the shoulder of“ Google Scholar
Ca. 1410 Quelle: http://lccn.loc.gov/50041709
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Finding full texts
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Finding full texts
Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com
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Using hidden services!
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Via linking service to the catalog!
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Via linking service to the catalog!
Classical interface of the catalog!
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A further example
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Via GBV database!
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Full text via interlibrary loan
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Full text via interlibrary loan!
Ordering!
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Full text via interlibrary loan!
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Full text via interlibrary loan!
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Finding full texts at a publisher
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Function of Link Resolvers
Cited source
Link Resolver
Source of full text
Knowledge base with local
holdings data
Catalog data, maintenance through
library
Meta data (in OpenURL)
URL of source, e.g. DOI (in OpenURL)
Search in catalog, interlibrary loan database
Meta data (in OpenURL)
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Thinking about information literacy!
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Classical view Critical view Emphasis on competences, standards for
information use understanding process or system of information
Concept of education, Bildung
transfer of knowledge from the knower to the learner
creating ability for reflection and critical awareness
Concept of knowledge independent of knower result of a social process
Concept of inf. process linear not linear, complex
Emphasis on information literacy
how to find how to produce and share
View of the user customer, needy person patron, co-producer
View of the library storehouse room for experiences
View of the librarian teacher consultant for learning
Critical view on information literacy
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Being modest: Information literacy is one of many key competencies and literacies!
Media literacy
Writing competencies
Intercultural competencies
Didactical competencies
Decision-making and responsibility
Soft skills
Academic literacy
Computer literacy
E-literacy
Visual literacy
(Martin, A.; Madigan, D.: Digital literacies for learning. London : Facet Publ., 2006. Knobel, M; Lankshear, C.: A new literacies sampler. New York Lang, 2007. Selber, S. A.: Multiliteracies for a digital age. Carbondale : Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 2004)
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Information literacy is a … !?
critical view
new literacy
transliteracy
multimodal literacy
meta competence
second-order literacy
multi-literacy (Lloyd, A.: Information literacy landscapes : information literacy in education, workplace and everyday contexts. Oxford: Chandos, 2010)
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Different views on information literacy
Information literacy
Acquistion of ‚information age‘
skills
Cultivation of habits of mind
Engagement in information-rich social practices
(According Addison, C. & Meyers, E.: Perspectives on information literacy: a framework for conceptual understanding. Information research 18 (2013) 3)
ACRL, Big6 Skills, …
Kuhlthau, Dervin, … „Multiliteracies“, Lloyd, …
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Different views on information literacy
Discuss the three views on information literacy in relation to the following aspects: Key statements Advantages Challenges Role of information professional
(According Addison, C. & Meyers, E.: Perspectives on information literacy: a framework for conceptual understanding. Information research 18 (2013) 3)
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A further proposal: A cultural view on information literacy!
La culture de l'information
Culture informationnelle
(Olivier Le Deuff)
In French „culture“ also means education or „Bildung“!
Thinking about the other, the difference!
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• to create and develop oneself • diversity (in contrast to Google‘s monoculture) • being different and viewing oneself different • importance of context and relations, e.g. with a disciplinary culture • a more phenomenological or ethnological view on information behaviour and information literacy • a not library-related view on information literacy
Information culture implies ...
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Key aspects of information culture include …
Textuality Authenticity
Knowledge Power
Identity Memory
(According Tredinnick, L.: Digital information culture, 2008)
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Distinctions
Object
Material
Subject
Form
Stability Variability
Data Interpretation, Transformation Representation
Knowledge
Culture Technology
Presence Absence
INFORMATION
COMMUNICATION
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Prerequisites to develop information literacy!?
• Curiosity • Skill to play and to explore • Having the time for it • Critical attitude • ...?
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What is the core of information literacy?
What is the real, the characteristic, the „Eigentliche“ of information literacy?
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Proposals for the core of information literacy/culture
• Don‘t trust only one information source.
• Be prepared for constant change.
• Know your skills and limits!
• When searching: „Bullshit in, bullshit out“.
• Tolerate ambiguity and differences.
• Don‘t give up too early.
• Be aware that every fact is the result of an act, that information has been created by somebody with a certain purpose.
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Information literacy in academic education
Part of academic research methods and writing!
Made with http://www.wordle.net
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IL challenges and concerns for engineering students and scholars
• Availability of full texts • Uncertainty to miss important information • Coping with information overload • Uncertainty about the quality what found • …
Matej Krén, Idiom, Town Library Prague (1998), Photo 2009
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How to reduce uncertainty to miss important information?
• Using different databases. • Using subject-specific databases. • Reflecting on appropriate search terms. • Knowing how to logically combine of search
terms within a specific database interface. • Keeping overview through effective reference
management. • …
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Recipes and/or reflection!?
An important recipe:
Recipes don‘t work in any context!
(Antranikian, G.: Science meets cooking – Wenn Wissenschaftler kochen. Hamburg : TuTech Innovation, 2006)
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Reflecting on science and scholarship
? ?
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The core of information literacy/culture in
academic education
Critical and reflected handling of data, information and communication processes as well as epistemological processes
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The core of information literacy/culture in
academic education
How to name this? One proposal by Wayne Bivens-Tatum, Princeton University Library:
“scholarly habitude”
From: http://blogs.princeton.edu/librarian/2013/10/some-context-for-the-latest-p2p-review-column/
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An example for information literacy content written for a special
„disciplinary culture“ Hapke, T.: Appendix I. The world of biotechnology information: seven points for reflecting on your information behavior. In: Buchholz, K., Kasche, V., Bornscheuer, U.T.: Biocatalysts and Enzyme Technology. 2. ed. Wiley-VCH, October 2012. Preprint available at: http://www.chemie.uni-greifswald.de/~biotech/assets/downloads/Information_BuchholzKascheBornscheuer.pdf
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Information literacy/culture and creativity
How can information systems increase individual creativity?
(For a view from history see: Hapke, T.: Wilhelm Ostwald’s Combinatorics as a Link between In-formation and Form. Library Trends 61 (2012) 2, 286-303. Also online at http://doku.b.tu-harburg.de/volltexte/2013/1192/ )
E.g. through enabling and enhancing combinatorics and remixing!
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Further reading
Addison, C. & Meyers, E.: Perspectives on information literacy: a framework for conceptual understanding. Information research 18 (2013) 3 Hapke, T.: Informationskompetenz in einer neuen Informationskultur. In: Handbuch Informationskompetenz, pp. 36-48. Ed. W. Sühl-Strohmenger. Berlin: de Gruyter Saur, 2012. Preprint at http://doku.b.tu-harburg.de/volltexte/2013/1204/ Falciola, L, Searching biotechnology information: A case study. World patent information 2009, 31, 1, 36-47 Le Deuff, O.: Culture de l’Information. Espace d’Olivier Le Deuff. http://www.culturedel.info/ Lloyd, A.: Information literacy landscapes : information literacy in education, workplace and everyday contexts. Oxford: Chandos, 2010. Tredinnick, L.: Digital information culture : the individual and society in the digital age. Oxford: Chandos Publ., 2008.
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Contact
Thomas Hapke Web: http://www.tuhh.de/b/hapke/ Blog: http://blog.hapke.de Slidespace: http://www.slideshare.net/thapke Tweets: http://twitter.com/thapke
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