The Mobile Playground: Can Databases and iPads Play Nice?onlinenw
Tablets present many opportunities to enhance and increase library instruction, but it is unclear if library databases can rise to the challenge of tablet use. In our study, we used an iPad and tested the functionality of specific tasks that may be used in a library instruction setting: presentation of the page, access to multimedia content, database specific tools, email full text, and separate app/installation requirements. This session will explore the nitty gritty of using tablets for library instruction, leading to a better understanding of the future of mobile tablet classrooms
Open Badges Open Doors - Digital Workshopmeggiewright
Meggie Wright, Oregon State University
Nate Otto, Indiana University
The Mozilla Foundation’s Open Badges are a new technology that makes it possible for anyone to issue, earn, and display proof of an educational achievement. Open Badges are digital tokens, like merit badges you might receive in the real world. They can be displayed on websites, job sites, and social media. Badges can be used to tell a clear, verifiable story about learning accomplishments, something that degrees and resumes often fail to do. Badges are shaking up education wherever and whenever learning happens, including in libraries. In this digital workshop, find out how badges work, set up a “backpack,” earn your first badge, and think about how this technology may impact our institutions’ roles in the learning ecosystem.
This presentation was provided by Daniel Tracy of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign during the NISO webinar, Library as Publisher, Part Two, held on Wednesday, March 14, 2018.
Friday, November 5, 2010
12:30 - 1:45 PM
Panel Presentation by Allen McKiel - Western Oregon University; Jim Dooley - University of California Merced; Robert Murdoch - Brigham Young University; Carol Zsulya –Cleveland State University
This presentation was provided by Rachel Vacek of the University of Michigan during the NISO webinar, Library as Publisher, Part Two, held on March 14, 2018.
The Mobile Playground: Can Databases and iPads Play Nice?onlinenw
Tablets present many opportunities to enhance and increase library instruction, but it is unclear if library databases can rise to the challenge of tablet use. In our study, we used an iPad and tested the functionality of specific tasks that may be used in a library instruction setting: presentation of the page, access to multimedia content, database specific tools, email full text, and separate app/installation requirements. This session will explore the nitty gritty of using tablets for library instruction, leading to a better understanding of the future of mobile tablet classrooms
Open Badges Open Doors - Digital Workshopmeggiewright
Meggie Wright, Oregon State University
Nate Otto, Indiana University
The Mozilla Foundation’s Open Badges are a new technology that makes it possible for anyone to issue, earn, and display proof of an educational achievement. Open Badges are digital tokens, like merit badges you might receive in the real world. They can be displayed on websites, job sites, and social media. Badges can be used to tell a clear, verifiable story about learning accomplishments, something that degrees and resumes often fail to do. Badges are shaking up education wherever and whenever learning happens, including in libraries. In this digital workshop, find out how badges work, set up a “backpack,” earn your first badge, and think about how this technology may impact our institutions’ roles in the learning ecosystem.
This presentation was provided by Daniel Tracy of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign during the NISO webinar, Library as Publisher, Part Two, held on Wednesday, March 14, 2018.
Friday, November 5, 2010
12:30 - 1:45 PM
Panel Presentation by Allen McKiel - Western Oregon University; Jim Dooley - University of California Merced; Robert Murdoch - Brigham Young University; Carol Zsulya –Cleveland State University
This presentation was provided by Rachel Vacek of the University of Michigan during the NISO webinar, Library as Publisher, Part Two, held on March 14, 2018.
EBSCO Discovery Services: update and roadmapKatherine Rose
EBSCO Discovery Service is significant in its ability to expose relevant results to your library users. Its means of doing this is unique, but EBSCO recognises that the requirements of libraries and demands of library users evolves rapidly.
Richard will share road map items for EBSCO Discovery Service, highlighting how changing research habits are impacting upcoming user interface features. In addition, Richard will share details of the Holdings and Link Management (HLM) administration area and how it is evolving into a tool that does so much more than managing your holdings for EDS and Full Text Finder – from consolidating COUNTER statistics to providing Cost per Use analysis to Collection Analysis to tracking licenses and other key resource details.
This is an updated slideshow I used in a webinar for our MILI program, the program for teachers and media specialists. This slideshow is about using databases that are provided in the state of MN.
Measuring Anonymity in Academic Virtual Referencekslovesbooks
Kristin Grabarek Roper and I presented this information as a poster session at the American Library Association's Annual Conference 2012. We hope that other librarians, academic and otherwise, may choose to adapt our methods to measure anonymity and assess identity at their institutions.
Therapy for your CMS: Improving the User ExperienceRachel Vacek
In web design, much of user experience design is focused on the needs and expectations of end-users. However, when developing within an open-source content management system (CMS), it becomes essential to also consider those who will be using the CMS.At the University of Houston Libraries, the Web Services department learned how essential it is to balance usability and functionality when developing a CMS after they really started using and getting feedback on their over-engineered intranet implementation in Drupal.This talk will include lessons learned from our initial mistakes, but focus primarily on the challenges and successes of the CMS built for the Libraries’ website and the methods we used for engaging users to help determine the initial direction for the development of the CMS. Attendees will leave with ideas on how to simultaneously provide flexibility and advanced tools to improve the user experience and apply “therapy” to their own CMS implementations. Background article: Improving the Drupal User Experience, http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/4578
Libraries are running two spaces - physical and virtual. The e-Library or library's online presence is not the traditional library website. What new roles and skills are required to run a virtual library?
Geek out: Adding Coding Skills to Your Professional RepertoireBohyun Kim
Presented at the 2012 Charleston Conference Charleston Conference XXXII. November 9, 2012. An article version of this presentation at the Conference Proceedings is downloadable at: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/charleston/2012/Tech/8/
Program description: http://2012charlestonconference.sched.org/event/b7cd8aed0d21408e6c23fd95b6162837#.UJLWcoWQkbQ
E books and ereaders in your school library program buffy hamilton july 2011Buffy Hamilton
Slides to support a daylong conversation and exploration about ebooks and ereaders in school library programs for the Richland School District One, Columbia, SC
EBSCO Discovery Services: update and roadmapKatherine Rose
EBSCO Discovery Service is significant in its ability to expose relevant results to your library users. Its means of doing this is unique, but EBSCO recognises that the requirements of libraries and demands of library users evolves rapidly.
Richard will share road map items for EBSCO Discovery Service, highlighting how changing research habits are impacting upcoming user interface features. In addition, Richard will share details of the Holdings and Link Management (HLM) administration area and how it is evolving into a tool that does so much more than managing your holdings for EDS and Full Text Finder – from consolidating COUNTER statistics to providing Cost per Use analysis to Collection Analysis to tracking licenses and other key resource details.
This is an updated slideshow I used in a webinar for our MILI program, the program for teachers and media specialists. This slideshow is about using databases that are provided in the state of MN.
Measuring Anonymity in Academic Virtual Referencekslovesbooks
Kristin Grabarek Roper and I presented this information as a poster session at the American Library Association's Annual Conference 2012. We hope that other librarians, academic and otherwise, may choose to adapt our methods to measure anonymity and assess identity at their institutions.
Therapy for your CMS: Improving the User ExperienceRachel Vacek
In web design, much of user experience design is focused on the needs and expectations of end-users. However, when developing within an open-source content management system (CMS), it becomes essential to also consider those who will be using the CMS.At the University of Houston Libraries, the Web Services department learned how essential it is to balance usability and functionality when developing a CMS after they really started using and getting feedback on their over-engineered intranet implementation in Drupal.This talk will include lessons learned from our initial mistakes, but focus primarily on the challenges and successes of the CMS built for the Libraries’ website and the methods we used for engaging users to help determine the initial direction for the development of the CMS. Attendees will leave with ideas on how to simultaneously provide flexibility and advanced tools to improve the user experience and apply “therapy” to their own CMS implementations. Background article: Improving the Drupal User Experience, http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/4578
Libraries are running two spaces - physical and virtual. The e-Library or library's online presence is not the traditional library website. What new roles and skills are required to run a virtual library?
Geek out: Adding Coding Skills to Your Professional RepertoireBohyun Kim
Presented at the 2012 Charleston Conference Charleston Conference XXXII. November 9, 2012. An article version of this presentation at the Conference Proceedings is downloadable at: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/charleston/2012/Tech/8/
Program description: http://2012charlestonconference.sched.org/event/b7cd8aed0d21408e6c23fd95b6162837#.UJLWcoWQkbQ
E books and ereaders in your school library program buffy hamilton july 2011Buffy Hamilton
Slides to support a daylong conversation and exploration about ebooks and ereaders in school library programs for the Richland School District One, Columbia, SC
Challenges and opportunities in library discovery services genrobin fay
A 2016 survey conducted by Simon Inger Consulting found that library web pages (i.e. search engines) are as important to many academics as abstracting and indexing sources. At the same time, library service platforms such as WMS and Alma have been widely adopted, but the “discovery of library-provided resources remains a complex issue with many unfulfilled expectations… and many challenges remain in improving discoverability” as noted by Marshall Breeding in his 2018 library systems report.
This short presentation was designed to highlight strengths and weaknesses of search discovery tool for libraries while identifying opportunities to improve the discoverability of our resources using the catalog.
Presentation & Discussion May 2018
This is the powerpoint presentation on Library Thing which accompanied a talk by Niamh Walker-Headon at LAI’s Cataloguing and Indexing group Seminar day ‘Cataloguing in the electronic age’ on the 25th October, 2007.
Data you gather is just data until it is analyzed, interpreted, and conveyed in a meaningful way. With Google Analytics incorrect conclusions can be drawn without doing an in-depth analysis. Wisniewski provides a framework for accurately assessing the data to make informed design decisions in combination with other user tests, surveys and focus groups.
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Notice that the mobile site has most of the same elements as
the main site.
o Search
o Links
o Translate
o Features: all four features as you scroll
o The blue menu menu expands on touch to provide links
to the top navigation links.
The new website is responsive, which means it “responds” to
the device the user is on rather than designing for specific
display types. Patrons want the same options and functions
as the main site. For many, a smartphone or tablet has
become the main way to access the web.
At this time, the BiblioCommons mobile site does not include
all of the same features as the desktop version, but they are
working on developing a more mobile-friendly site
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Using taxonomies to create “pages” adds
discoverability
Able to give librarians and front-line staff access
to create content (blogs and reading lists), but
keep other edits centralized to the web team.
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Usability testing: we recruited via multiple
channels, including volunteers, Facebook (not
our official page), and Craiglist. Also tried
meetup, but that didn’t work fast enough.
A goal was to integrate Bibliocommons
navigation with that of the new website. There
were some constraints because of this, such as
the inclusion of the first 2 top level menu items
(My MCL and Explore).
Mobile: A hover menu doesn’t work so well on a
mobile device as it’s difficult to hover without
choosing. For the top level pages that are very
long, we repeated the content in the main part
of the page. The side menu is toward the
bottom on mobile.
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Apache Solr has some options to make search
work better.
o elevations are when you map terms to
specific pages by their ID
o synonyms are when you map terms so that
search treats them as “equals”
o you can also map misspellings (freegal =>
fregul, fregal, freegul)
o biasing (prioritizing) based on content type
and field - doesn’t work the same for pages
created by terms. Works better for content
types.
o Be careful how much you try to manipulate
Solr
It was important that our website content be
available with results from our “Catalog”;
Challenges:
making a complicated interface easy to
9. A search for a popular title.
Notice the Reading List carousels on the right.
These are using the BiblioCommons API and
our developers created a wrapper.
We want users to see our added value content
alongside the catalog record. I analyze Google
Analytics search data each month to help
librarians decide what reading lists to create.
BiblioCommons results (API) on the left. We
requested that BiblioCommons increase the
daily limit on API calls.
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Faceted search
User can expand to see the facets.
Facets are topics on one side and terms and
content types on the other
Notice the event on the right.
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Taxonomies allow us to connect content with
other content.
Events are a content type, but we can link
events to pages by assigning event types to
certain pages.
We use locations as a taxonomy so that we can
associate them with content types and link
content to them
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This page is “created” by a taxonomy.
Most of the content is tagged with the “Teens”
taxonomy term.
The only part that is actually stored in the term
itself is the description, which is above the
reading list.
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Assigned the term “Belmont”
o events
o reading lists
o page called “Belmont Library history”
The meeting room is a child taxonomy term.
The hours, image, address and link to PDF
event schedule is part of the term itself.
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This is a view of editing a blog post. One can
add terms to then populate each of the term
pages.
We are using a module called “Chosen” to allow
staff to choose multiple terms.
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The main event page defaults to a Drupal view
(stored database queries) using filters
(taxonomy terms and date range)
The search events in the top-left uses a Solr
search
The Types of events is a subset of the event
type taxonomy terms, which are marked as
featured.
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Popular Research Topics - Interest in changing the research
information on our website from link farms that we had
trouble maintaining to more dynamic blog posts and content
began before the revamp of the library’s website. We
considered using services like Wordpress, Library a la Carte
and LibGuides, but with the development of the new website
in Drupal, we could create our own research guides. We
now have information services teams acting as curators for
each topic, responsible for developing and maintaining blog
posts and reading lists associated with their topic and
deciding on relevant resources. We intentionally culled back
on the scope of these topics to focus on our patron FAQs
and special collections.
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The new Homework Center has a very similar set-up to the
Popular Research Topics and is curated by youth librarians
around the system. We have also received grant support to
develop information literacy tools for students and to promote
this site to educators and students in our communities.
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We Speak Your Language (WSYL) staff have been creating
public lists in our four target non-English languages in
BiblioCommons and, now that our website is also available in
18. Why we did we choose BiblioCommons (we branded it My MCL)
as our discovery layer? Some of the reasons...
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dynamic interface that pays attention to how the web is
changing and keeps up with those expectations
community-enhanced catalog - any registered user can
create public lists, add tags, comments, embed video - public
content is community-moderated with an appeal process
great for folks who aren’t library experts - you don’t need to
know that we use the word juvenile to find materials for
children - more natural language, embedded discovery
features
available in three of our 4 target languages
allows easy sharing via social networks, email
part of a larger network of BiblioCommons libraries around
world
19. As noted before, the mobile version of BiblioCommons doesn’t
offer all of the functionality of the desktop version, but it does allow
account management and search and we hope to see improved
mobile offerings within the next year or so.
20. Let us know if you have any questions! We are
happy to share.