YouTube, social media, and academic libraries: building a digital collection

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YouTube, social media, and academic libraries: building a digital collection Allan Cho Irving K. Barber Learning Centre University of British Columbia Library Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge (May 16-19, 2015)

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YouTube, social media, and academic libraries: building a digital collection

Allan ChoIrving K. Barber Learning CentreUniversity of British Columbia Library

Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge (May 16-19, 2015)

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Outline

1.. YouTube as social media 2. Evolution of “Media”

Collections

3. Social Media as a digital collection

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Social Media at UBC Library

• Social Media Audits in 2013 and 2014

• Unit-level accounts provide statistics for Twitter and Facebook accounts for quarterly reports

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Definition of Webcast

● Interconnected set of objects that typically include an audio stream, moving images (i.e. video) and presentation.

● Differ from other videocentric informational objects because of their limited visual components, typically consisting of a "talking head" and slides

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“Pre-social” webcasting in 2003

• CONTENTdm

• Digital Collection Management Software

• Good, but not optimal for streaming video use

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Webcasting in 2015

Four core types of entities in digital library: 1. Objects (digital materials, i.e. presentations from guest speakers) 2. Collections (organized group of Objects) 3. Metadata (information on Objects and Collections) 4. Initiatives (projects to create and manage Collections)

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Assessment and Data, IKBLC

YouTube has been

selected as the platform

for UBC’s digital

collection due to:

– Benefits in accessibility

– Statistics

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Teaching & Learning using Crowdsourcing

• Transcription, annotation, captioning, production and indexing of webcast videos on YouTube platform

• UBC students from Chinese 411 (Modern Chinese Literature)

• Creation of the Daxue web portal (daxue.ubc.ca)

• e.g. TED talks

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Video Transcription - YouTube

Translating project of English language webcasts into different languages for educational purposes, this project offers a language literacy learning hub for online students

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Streaming Collections as “Social Media?”

• Up until the 1980s, most academic libraries did not have collection development policies for its video collections

• Up until the 1980s, most academic libraries had no collection development policies for its video collections

• What about social media?

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Social Media in Flexible Learning

• Collections for emerging fields of study

• Online learning is ubiquitous

• Places the learner, in primary control.

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Challenges

1. Metadata

● Complete reworking of the way

digital cataloguing takes place

● From taxonomy to folksonomy

(system of classification derived

from categorizing, tagging and

annotation by groups)

2. Copyright

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References

• Cho, Allan. "YouTube and academic libraries: building a digital collection." Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship 25.1 (2013): 39-50.

• Dufour, Christine, Joan C. Bartlett, and Elaine G. Toms. "Understanding how webcasts are used as sources of information." Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 62.2 (2011): 343-362.

• Little, Geoffrey. "The revolution will be streamed online: academic libraries and video." The Journal of Academic Librarianship 37.1 (2011): 70-72.

• Young, Jeffrey R. "College 2.0: A Self-Appointed Teacher Runs a One-Man 'Academy‘ on YouTube." The Chronicle of Higher Education (2010).

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Stacy V. Sieck

Taylor & Francis Group

Library Communications Manager, Americas Region

[email protected]

Allan Cho

Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia Library

Community Engagement Librarian

[email protected]

Zoe Pettway Unno, Ph.D., MLIS

Pollak Library, California State University

Science Librarian

[email protected]

Questions?

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