discover - e: tips and tricks for connecting users to library-provided electronic resources
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OCLC events at ALA Annual 2009 (July 12). A panel will share advice about helping library users connect with library-provided electronic resources and discuss current innovations in formation discovery.TRANSCRIPT
Discover - e: Tips and Tricks for
connecting users to library-provided
electronic resources
West St. Petersburg Community Library at St. Petersburg College
(Joint-use)
Now …
+ Information Discovery
Enhanced/creative learning?!
Connecting Users to eContent
Acquire Promote Use Success? Future?!
Tips/Tricks Checklist
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Acquire
Promote!
Tips/Tricks Checklist
Promote during library instruction!
Promote during library instruction!
Promote during library instruction!
Promote during library instruction!
Promote during library instruction!
New Book Images Web Page promoting new books and eBooks.
New eContent is promoted through various channels -- Library Blog, Twitter, Toolbars, etc.
RSS feeds on library toolbar!www.conduit.com/
Embedded librarians
Resource page in ANGEL
Help moderate research projects as an Authenticated Guest.
A great way to promote applicable resources!
Acquire Promote
Use
Tips/Tricks Checklist
Emphasize the importance of citing sources.
Copy/paste culture
Create a library repository and include course e-reserves within your Course Management System.
Faculty can search for course content and link to it
within their courses!
Create persistent links and include a Meebo widget for “just-in-time” assistance.
Create course accounts so students can access pre-selected content, add notes,
create search alerts etc.
Bring content automatically into your courses using RSS!
Here are some of the research tools that have been most valuable to students and faculty.
Library toolbar
WorldCat Citations
Facebook Search App.
LINCCWeb Library Toolbar
Use Jing to show how to find eContent!
Acquire Promote Use
Success?
Anecdotal Evidence
More and more professors are beginning to “embed” librarians because they love the fact that there is someone “present” to help students with their research. Papers are getting better!
Students and faculty love the research tools, especially the LibX and LINCCWeb library toolbars and WorldCat citations. These tools allow users to spend more quality time digesting the content rather than jumping through all the access hoops!
Each class submits a Technology and Research Use Survey and submits a follow-up research survey once the class is over.
Note: more detailed results are available on request and summaries are available at http://chadmairn.pbwiki.com/ .
Photo courtesy of Michael Marlatt (Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0)
What is the future of reading and scholarship?
Photo from W3C Mobile Initiative http://www.w3.org/Mobile/
TED videosphere
Mashups
Tools and widgetsEverything
Strive to acquire more DRM-free (or at least more porous) content!
Illustration for an article against DRM by Cory Doctorow, published in Macmania magazine.
+ Both Information and Self Discovery
Enhanced/creative learning!
Connecting Users to eContent AND to one
another
Bloom’s Taxonomy Revised
Evaluate
Analyze
Apply
Understand
Remember
Creation
“How the Gifted Brain Learns” -- David A. Sousa, E.D.
Notice the dotted lines: the learning domains should permeate into one another. No distinct lines!
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Comments/Questions?
Chad Mairn, M.L.I.S.St. Petersburg College* e-mail: [email protected] (office: (727) 341.7181
Presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/chadmairn
Unfinished business: http://chadmairn.pbwiki.com/
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