Is there a gap between what researchers want and what information professionals provide? In this presentation, we tried to show that people's expectations have changed. We illustrated this with a sketch in a music shop and we acted out a library scenario where a researcher is baffled by what is provided by the library. The researcher wants everything in an integrated way, and not to have to think about cataloguing systems, confusing terminology and barriers to access. View the presentation on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovmmPNcFteA

1. http://haveyouheard.it/worlds-best-orchestra-conductor/

2. The Seeker….
They call me 'The Seeker‘
I've been searching low and high
I won't get to get what I'm after
Till the day I die
(The Who)
when we find what we seek...

3. The Pusher….
You know I've seen a lot of people
Walking around with tombstones
in their eyes
But the pusher don't care
Ah if you live or if you die
(Steppenwolf)

5. http://www.flickr.com/photos/joelogon/8004501500/

6. MADNESS

9. ?

11. ?

13. ?

15. ?

18. Library picture
http://www.flickr.com/photos/adventuresinlibrarianship/517837174
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/302285872

22. …anger?
insanity…?

24. Find me under 362.2….

25. Search:

26. Old silos, new silos, no silos - SWIB12 -
@lukask
26
ILS REPO ILS REPO ILS REPO
Union
Catalogue
Repository
Gateway
Worldcat
DB DB EJ EJ EJ
AGG AGG AGG
DI DI
Google Scholar
DB
ILS = Library Catalogue
REPO = Institutional Repository
DB = Database
EJ = EJournal
AGG = Aggregation
DI = Discovery Index
DL = Discovery Layer
DI
DL DL DL

27. ?

28. “An Investigation into the
representation of madness
in popular culture”
B.N. Sain

30. “An Investigation into
the representation of
madness in popular
culture”
B.N. Sain

31. http://www.flickr.com/photos/marsdd/2986989396/
“An Investigation into the
representation of
madness in popular
culture”
B.N. Sain

33. http://today.slac.stanford.edu/a/

35. thing
Search for:
thing thing

36. Search for:

37. http://blogs.lib.ucdavis.edu/specol/category/
photography/

42. https://twitter.com/laurajwilkinson/status/326703134573490176/photo/1

46. Seeker
• Strategies depending on
discipline
• Information from all
types of sources,
regardless of format
• Interested in the topic
not the format
• Discipline agnostic
• Format specific
catalogues
• Integration attempts
Pusher

47. http://www.flickr.com/photos/marsdd/2986989396/
“An Investigation
into the
representation of
madness in
popular culture”
B.N. Sain

49. Seeker
• Anything they can use
in research
• Access regardless of
where things are held
• Access to their own
collections
• Access to a limited
selection of other
collections depending
on subscriptions
Pusher

52. Seeker
• Consistent use of
language
• Language should never
be a barrier
• Language modified by
different information
professionals
Pusher

53. Level: Fonds

54. Find
Discover
Names Places
Subjects
Fonds
hierarchies
FRBR
integrated
vocabularies
ISBN
monograph
call number
Events
Dates sub-series
boolean

55. Seeker
• To search on their own
terms; with their own
search terms
• To search using
controlled vocabularies
Pusher

56. What do these terms have in common?
Prof Brian Heaphy
gender and alcohol
russian security
surrogacy
gay parenthood
gay male ageing
spatial ideas

57. Seeker
• Relationships between
information
• Connections that can
form a vital part of
research
• Minimal relationships
Pusher

58. Theme: Werewolveshttp://www.imdb.com

59. Items by Subject
Items by Person
In one database index!

61. SeekerThe
The Pusher…
needs to understand
(not the other way around)

62. Context and perspective

66. Back to the music

70. http://www.furia.com/misc/genremaps/engenremap.html

73. And …… research

74. What
….
is your quest?

75. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9b/Crisis_in_Utopia.jpg

80. http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/researchlei/

83. http://www.narcis.nl/search/coll/vpub/Language/EN

85. One day everything will be
connected and open. Information
will flow freely. It makes me so
excited to think about it!
By Unnamed WPA photographer (WPA photo Via [1]) [Public domain], via Wikimedia
Commons

86. By Kim Scarborough from Chicago, IL (More Spaghetti, I Say Uploaded by Fæ) [CC-
BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia
Commons

88. Our chief weapons are education and
information literacy

89. Librarian Lobe

90. New and improved!
• learn to think like a researcher!
• see the world in a new light!
• find out how researchers really work!

91. New and improved!
• learn to think like a researcher!
• see the world in a new light!
• find out how researchers really work!

92. The Cast:
The Seeker…………………………………..Jane Stevenson. Works on the Archives Hub,
a Mimas service based at the University of
Manchester and funded by Jisc.
The Pusher……………………………………Lukas Koster. Library Systems Coordinator,
Library of the University of Amsterdam.