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- 1. Informing digital literacy practice through engagement, case studies and research Diane Bell Research Librarian, City University London diane.bell.2@city.ac.uk @dianelouisebell www.city.ac.uk/library
- 2. www.city.ac.uk/library Engagement methods Vine videos & Twitter # Blogging and practical case researcher study resource Incorporating a researcher’s digital research skills Using social media to promote Patron Driven Acquisition Digital literacy survey & follow up interviews
- 3. www.city.ac.uk/library #highfivealibrarianday Vine video including students
- 6. www.city.ac.uk/library Practical case study resource
- 7. www.city.ac.uk/library Case study : Research student Profile: LIS Research student, 3rd year, multi-disciplinary topic, works part-time in an academic library. Databases: LISTA, LISA and Jstor. Libraries used: SOAS, Senate House, British Library, public libraries. Tools used: Mendeley, Figshare, RefWorks, NVivo. Social media/ blogs: Twitter, Tumblr, Academia.edu, research blogs Advice: Connecting with others, using social media for feedback, always follow up citations in papers.
- 9. www.city.ac.uk/library Digital research apps • BrowZine – journal browsing app (subscription) • Feedly (feed reader) • Twitter • Evernote (notes, photos app) • Kindle app • One Drive / Drop Box (storage) • Pocket (PDF storage)
- 11. www.city.ac.uk/library Workshop: Building an online profile using social media & employability http://libguides.city.ac.uk/employability/furtherhelp
- 13. www.city.ac.uk/library Digital literacy research project: Which factors may influence the digital literacy skills of research students?
- 14. www.city.ac.uk/library Conclusion • Vine videos are quick & fun. • Including the expertise of research students is useful. • Different engagement methods are advisable. • #readforresearch has been very successful & feedback on the case study blog has been great. • Social media is useful for communication, promotion & feedback. • Research-based practice involving students.
- 15. www.city.ac.uk/library Thank you for listening: Any questions or discussion points? diane.bell.2@city.ac.uk @dianelouisebell
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- I work in Library Services at City University London. I would like to talk about different engagement methods for working with and taking an interest in research (doctoral) students to involve them in enhancing their own and others’ digital literacy.
- Use of a blog and case study resource of researchers’ ways of conducting research and using digital tools and sharing these with others. Working with a research student who researches totally online and using digital tools. Using social media to promote and engage with researcher patron driven acquisition. Conducting a digital literacy survey.
- Vine videos are fun and quick to make on a mobile or device and can be put on Twitter.
- We use LibGuides to support different subjects and have guides for researchers, additional needs, employability etc. Most of the topics I will mention today are on the researcher library guide.
- It is easy to set up a WordPress blog. It gives some freedom to promote digital resources, research related topics and topics that I am interested in such as mentoring. People are welcome to write guest blog posts, but it can be difficult as some have their own blogs. On the blog there is a link to a new case study resource which I have created.
- Blogging on research related topics to reach a wider audience. Practical. Multidisciplinary case study resource blog based on the research student approaches, library resources they use, digital tools, hints and tips. They just complete a short form and then I construct a case study. I’ll be perfectly honest that I really love writing the case studies and have the capacity to add more but it can be difficult as people perceive it may be a lot of work to complete the form.
- An example of one of our research students, from the LIS discipline. Examples of databases used, reference management and data analysis software used , social media and networking tools and hints and tips. If I could obtain more examples from different disciplines, it might be possible to see if there are differences and trends.
- This is an example of one of our City research students who conducts all of her research online. I have spoken to her to understand how she uses digital tools to conduct her research because her topic is cool hunting and trends such as fashion to see how this could benefit other students. She is a heavy Twitter user both in terms of collecting and sharing information.
- These are some of the digital tools that our student uses to conduct research. Many of them are free tool so they could be used by other students. Her favourite social media tool is Twitter, she uses Feedly (feed reader) and her favourite app is Evernote (Premium) as it allows notetaking, collecting images, audio etc. She uses an iPad.
- Many students and lecturers use the online newspaper software paper.li to share online content from other sources.
- Linking digital skills and creating an online research profile to employability, Social media tools to build a profile and to seek employment at the same time. A presentation is now on our Employability Library guide. Content has been influenced by students.
- Social media (Twitter and blog) used to promote Read for Research, a scheme where research students suggest titles for library purchase. Gives an insight into their research. Deeping research on information seeking behaviour tweet.
- I’m currently taking an MA in Academic Practice. Undertaking a digital literacy survey of research students on Survey Monkey
- Diane Thank you very much for listening.