Discover - e:Tips and Tricks for connecting users to library-provided electronic resources

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Connecting Users to eContent+Information DiscoveryEnhanced/creative learning?!

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Buy smart!Increase usage!

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Word of mouth!

Promote during library instruction!

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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!

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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 toolbarWorldCat CitationsFacebook Search App.LINCCWeb Library Toolbar

Use Jing to show how to find eContent!

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Anecdotal EvidenceMore 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/ .

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What is the future of reading and scholarship?

TED videospherePhoto from W3C Mobile Initiative http://www.w3.org/Mobile/MashupsTools 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.

Connecting Users to eContent AND to one another+Both Information and Self DiscoveryEnhanced/creative learning!

Bloom’s Taxonomy RevisedCreationEvaluateAnalyzeNotice the dotted lines: the learning domains should permeate into one another. No distinct lines! ApplyUnderstandRemember“How the Gifted Brain Learns” -- David A. Sousa, E.D.

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Comments/Questions?Chad Mairn, M.L.I.S.St. Petersburg College*e-mail: mairn.chad@spcollege.edu (office: (727) 341.7181chadmairn@gmail.comchadmairnPresentation: http://www.slideshare.net/chadmairnUnfinished business: http://chadmairn.pbwiki.com/