Post on 25-May-2015
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Gabe Gossett Librarian for Extended Education at Western Washington University
Interdependence/Interconnected
• Technology Sabbath (Shlain)• “Romanticize” the research process
(Lanier)• Benefits of organizational change
Virtual spaces
• Distance ed pushing us to develop virtual learning spaceso Experimental phaseo Tools, techniques, and access vary widely by institution
• Hybrid: virtual tools giving choice of access within physical libraries
This is the story . . . Coastal Carolina University (Barbara Burd, Jennifer Shinaberger, Tracy Gaskin, and Casey Schacher)
• Larger university changes leading to new collaborations
• Moving IT into the library • IT learns about librarians, librarians upgrade
skills• Moving library access points into
BlackBoard
The Backchannel to the Backchannel
Poster: Using Focus Groups to Assess Library Services for Distance Users (Jennifer Castaldo and Christine Patterson)
Poster: "Be where Our Faculty Are:" Technology Use Information seeking Workflows (Julia Bauder & Jenny Emanuel) • Survey at Grinnel College and Illinois University • 55% of faculty (67% of junior faculty) use Google
Scholar at least weekly • 32% use mobile devices on the web • 90% use Wikipedia once a month • 77% would definitely use a personalized library web
page • 71% would like to have new book email alerts • 75% want tables of contents delivered over email
Talk: Is there a Role for Trust in Science? (Jean-Claude Bradley)
• The open notebook concept • Moving from a system of peer
review to proof• ChemInfo Validation Explorer:
a database of organic compounds melting points
• Still an open question about long term data management
Vendor product: Springshare's LibAnswers with Multilytics