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Mark Lindner

Glorious Generalist: Simplifying Library Database Interfaces - 2 views

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  • Mark Lindner on 28 Mar 12
     
    EBSCO interface tweaking & general thoughts on db interfaces By the way, I know this author personally.
Sara Thompson

Lesson Plans - Digital Writing and Research Lab - 0 views

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  • Sara Thompson on 28 May 12
     
    "The DWRL is pleased to share our library of innovative technology-based lesson plans and classroom assignments created by DWRL Instructors. Our new online database features a wide assortment of lesson plans and assignments employing a number of technologies. The lesson plans address a broad spectrum of pedagogical activities-from initial brainstorming to electronic peer review, from interactive visual rhetoric lessons to collaborative multi-media online publications; the site also features lesson plans suitable for time spans as short as a single class and as lengthy as semester-long projects. Also, be sure to visit the DWRL's Blogging Pedagogy site which features an ongoing series of weekly interviews with individual instructors about their technology-based assignments, allowing for a more in-depth and personal look at our featured lesson plans."
Sara Thompson

2009 - Lack of Annual Reports Make it Difficult to Analyze Library Strategic Credibility - 0 views

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  • Sara Thompson on 24 May 12
     
    This study gives a snapshot ofthe trends in strategic plans of ARL members. It shows that many ARL members do not produce an annual report, and that it istherefore difficult to assess if their strategic plans are implemented successfully.
Sara Thompson

Library Labs RSS4Lib - 0 views

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  • Sara Thompson on 28 Jun 12
     
    "The following is an alphabetical list of library web pages that list experimental, beta, or trial web tools and services."
Mark Lindner

Organization Monkey » "Libraries should get specific in our promotions" - 0 views

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  • Fry, Amy, and Linda Rich. 2011. Usability testing for e-resource discovery: How students find and choose e-resources using library websites. The Journal of Academic Librarianship 37, no.5: 386-401.
Sara Thompson

The Learning Black Market - 0 views

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  • In simple terms students personal use of the internet is generally very effective for their education but they are nervous that their practices are not valid and don’t reveal them to their tutors.
  • The learning black market exists largely in the Personal area of the map. Our data from the Transitional education-stage (Late stage secondary school + first year undergraduate) is indicating that learning activity in this area has two main elements
  • I suspect that Facebook IM is used extensively for homework as it’s convenient and immediate. It’s also private and a very low risk way of collaborating with a fellow student.
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  • The debate should be around how we evolve educational processes to take advantage of or to account for these new forms.  We cannot continue to teach the literacies that have been the mainstay of the educational system in their current form because the web smashes traditional paths to understanding.
  • A search on Google to help complete an assignment commonly returns a Wikipedia article. As we know Wikipedia articles are pitched at an ideal level and length to get a handle on a new subject which is something our Transitional students have to do a lot. The problem is that most of the students in the Transitional education stage we have spoken to in the US and the UK have been told not to use Wikipedia and so keep this practice a secret.
  • This is generating the learning black market in which is it all too easy to simulate understanding for coursework and formal assessments. Worse still, it is a market in which genuine learning can take place but is not being recognised because resources and practices are not seen as valid and therefore do not become visible to the formal education system.
  • I think what you are describing here is more accurately a grey (or parallel) market “the trade of a commodity through distribution channels which, while legal, are unofficial, unauthorized, or unintended by the original manufacturer”.
  • I chose the name ‘Learning Black Market’ because of the way in which I think current approaches are pushing students learning practices ‘underground’ (as Jo’s experience would indicate). It’s the clandestine aspect of the phrase that I’m interested in. The ‘goods and services’ are not in themselves illegal but they are being treated that way by students.
  • Sara Thompson on 12 Dec 11
     
    "The messages or lack of messages from educational institutions on these practices is generating a learning black market which masks the sheer scale of these new modes of engagement."
fleschnerj

What do Americans want from their libraries? Here's our chance to find out - 0 views

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Pew libraries research

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  • fleschnerj on 28 Nov 11
     
    What does your community want and need from a library? If you're a librarian, chances are you've made efforts to find out, to strategically plan, to adjust services to local interests and changing needs. Rarely, though, do any of us get to see a broad view of our library community through the filter of independent data.
Sara Thompson

Project MUSE - Subject Guides in Academic Libraries: A User-Centred Study of ... - 0 views

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  • This paper reports on the results of a qualitative research project that investigates how students use subject guides, and what students like and dislike about subject guides.
  • Sara Thompson on 30 Nov 11
     
    Only 11 students in the survey, but as we saw with our usability testing, patterns tend to emerge with even a small group of people. 
Sara Thompson

Zotero Citation Management Tool - LibGuides at Purchase College, SUNY - 0 views

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  • Sara Thompson on 14 Dec 11
     
    "This guide will walk you through setting up and using Zotero to collect and organize resources, cite works, and create bibliographies."
Sara Thompson

Pedagogy and Space: Empirical Research on New Learning Environments (EDUCAUSE Quarterly... - 0 views

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  • In the new technology-enhanced learning spaces at the University of Minnesota, students outperformed final grade expectations relative to their ACT scores. When instructors adapted their pedagogical approach to the new space by intentionally incorporating more active, student-centered teaching techniques, student learning improved. Students and faculty had positive perceptions of the new learning environments but also had to adjust to the unusual classrooms.
Mark Lindner

Kuali | Celeripedean - 2 views

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librariana

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  • Sara Thompson on 01 Jan 12
     
    "another open source ILS called Kuali OLE. Kuali is a open source extensible service driven library management system geared towards academic and research libraries."
fleschnerj

Fair-Use Guide Hopes to Solve Librarians' VHS-Cassette Problem - Wired Campus - The Chr... - 1 views

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Fair Use Copyright Guidelines

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  • fleschnerj on 25 Jan 12
     
    The Association of Research Libraries might have a solution to what some librarians call "the VHS-cassette problem." Here's the scenario: An academic library has a collection of video tapes that is slowly deteriorating, thanks to the fragile nature of analog media.
Sara Thompson

A Post-LMS World (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE - 1 views

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  • According to Babson Survey Research Group, 65 percent of all reporting higher education institutions said that online learning was a critical part of their long-term strategy, and over 6.1 million students took at least one online course during the fall 2010 term—an increase of 560,000 students over the previous year.
  • A post-LMS world does not suggest that the LMS is obsolete but, rather, that the practice of evaluating learning outcomes through a traditional LMS as the sole means for knowledge acquisition is obsolete. The original design of the LMS was transactional and largely administrative in nature, hence the “M” in “LMS.” The function of the traditional LMS is to simplify how learning is scheduled, deployed, and tracked as a means to organize curricula and manage learning materials.
  • LMS 3.0 design focuses on four essential applications: learning grids; e-learning intelligence; content clouds; and open architecture.
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  • Effective LMS 3.0 learning grids create and inspire greater user independence and self-governance to facilitate effective content-creation capacities and new crowd-sourced intellectual property through the personalization of a vast array of information sources. LMS 3.0, properly designed, creates reliable content that facilitates learning through organized interaction and communications processes that include the widest-possible spectrum of points of view.
  • LMS 3.0 information architecture plays an increasingly important role as the gravitational pull for core strategies in assessment, engagement, retention, and outcomes.
  • Tracking learning events is crucial, but ultimately faculty are interested in the kind of learning that yields positive behavioral changes reflected in outcomes and a mastery level leading to a seamless transition to the workforce.
  • LMS 3.0 design expands functionality to include open, flexible digital repositories with components that add context through outcomes measurement, social curation, reporting, analytics, and extensive sharing capabilities.
  • Higher education is increasingly embracing a more open future, and next-generation LMS design needs to commit to an open ideology.
  • Moving from LMS 1.0 environments that do not offer long-standing, established community contributor models—from the perspective of both source code and open content—to a truly open environment will be a critical success benchmark for the post-LMS era.
  • Effective e-learning design, as a lowest common denominator, will embrace nimble, interoperable, modular infrastructure in ways that make learning contemporary, relevant, and engaging.
  • Sara Thompson on 02 Feb 12
     
    An interesting opinion piece on the future of the LMS.  Try reading this and replacing "LMS" with "library database" ... what would that look like? 
fleschnerj

Why Kids Can't Search - 1 views

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Digital Native Searching Research

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  • fleschnerj on 08 Nov 11
     
    The more I read about digital natives, the more I want to call the idea bunk. (I used to be a big proponent of the concept.)
  • Sara Thompson on 08 Nov 11
     
    Oh the idea is completely bunk. Just had a little rant about that on my blog.
  • fleschnerj on 09 Nov 11
     
    Ah! I must read that. Perhaps an article on the topic? I've been keeping halfway decent records of reference/computer questions. Combine that with anecdotal evidence from you and we might have a nice little read...
Sara Thompson

Take Online Modules - For Teachers (Library of Congress) - 1 views

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  • Sara Thompson on 11 Nov 11
     
    One-hour professional development modules for educators to teach themselves about copyright and primary sources of various kinds.
  • Deb Robertson on 11 Nov 11
     
    Thank you, I have been keeping this site in another folder for consideration with our new "lib guides" on our new web site. Now we will know where they are when we need them.
Sara Thompson

Information Literacy Instruction and Student Achievement | ACRL Value of Academic Libra... - 1 views

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  • Early last month Megan posted about recent research connecting academic libraries and student achievement. She mentioned that there are multiple projects in the U.S. currently underway to correlate library use and GPA, and I have results from just such a project to share with you all!
  • In a recently completed study at University of Wyoming I discovered a positive correlation between upper-division library instruction and higher GPA at graduation (by upper-division, I mean post-first-year). This is based on an analysis of 4,489 transcripts of graduating seniors at the University of Wyoming, and the transcript analysis was supplemented by focus groups with graduating seniors
  • Look for the article in the March or June 2012 issue of Evidence Based Library and Information Practice. Here’s the citation: Bowles-Terry, M. (2012). Library instruction and academic success: A mixed-methods assessment of a library instruction program. Evidence Based Library and Information Practice.
Sara Thompson

How Users Search the Library from a Single Search Box - 2 views

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  • Sara Thompson on 08 Feb 12
     
    Article from ACRL, due out March 2012 This study examines how users search a large public university library using a prominent, single search box on the library website. The article examines two semesters of real-world data, totaling nearly 1.4 million transactions...
Sara Thompson

Finding E-books: A Guide - Library of Congress Bibliographies, Research Guides,and Find... - 0 views

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  • This guide is an introduction to e-books: what they are, how to use them, and where to find them, at the Library of Congress and elsewhere online.
fleschnerj

Nebraska building its own e-book system for schools, researchers | LISNews: - 0 views

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  • fleschnerj on 13 Aug 12
     
    There's a lot less dust and grime in today's Wild West, but enough unknowns to compete in any new frontier. Case in point: A new electronic book project started by the Nebraska Department of Education with the goal of offering free instructional content to teachers across the state.
Sara Thompson

Nobody cares about the library: How digital technology makes the library invisible (and... - 1 views

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  • Yet, while it is certainly true that digital technology has made libraries and librarians invisible to scholars in some ways, it is also true, that in some areas, digital technology has made librarians increasingly visible, increasingly important.
  • The invisible library
  • Let me offer three instances where the library should strive for invisibility, three examples of “good” invisibility:
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  • Search:
  • APIs and 3rd party mashups:
  • Social media:
  • The visible library
  • Focus on special collections
  • Start supporting data-driven research
  • Start supporting new modes of scholarly communication—financially, technically, and institutionally.
  • Here I’d suggest tools and training for database creation, social network analysis, and simple text mining.
  • Sara Thompson on 23 Feb 12
     
    Skip the first bit about the Chuck clip - not important and too long. Scroll forward to the part starting with "The Invisible Library" -- excellent food for thought about the roles we play. 
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