This presentation investigates how narrative and storytelling principles can be applied to library online information retrieval technologies, and in particular to affecting the design of the library’s online public access catalogue (OPAC). Compelling evidence from both theory and actual prototypes demonstrates that narrative and storytelling principles can inform the design of modern information systems. Currently, corporations such as Coco Cola are recasting their Web presence as an online magazine reflecting a corporate trend by marketers to recast communications with consumers as storytelling rather than advertising. Libraries too can take advantage of these insights in storytelling for Web interface design and online communication, for recasting how we communicate to our users through our flagship service, the online catalogue.
Speaker: Mark-Shane Scale is from Kingston, Jamaica in the West Indies/Caribbean, where he pursued a BSc in Political Science with Statistics and later MLIS at the University of the West Indies, Mona campus. He has worked as a teacher librarian in a vocational school and later as a Departmental Librarian at the University of the West Indies, Department of Library and Information Studies. Eventually Mark-Shane got the opportunity to work as an Assistant Lecturer for the Department. He currently lives in Canada and is pursuing a PhD in Library and Information Science. His area of interest and specialisation is in information sources in social media and personal and organizational storytelling in knowledge sharing. He also has an interest in keeping up with technological trends such as social media and artificial intelligence. He is married and is the thankful father of 3 young girls.
In this monthly feature of NCompass Live, the NLC’s Technology Innovation Librarian, Michael Sauers, will discuss the tech news of the month and share new and exciting tech for your library. There will also be plenty of time in each episode for you to ask your tech questions. So, bring your questions with you, or send them in ahead of time, and Michael will have your answers.
NCompass Live - March 20,2013
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An Ontospatal Representaton of Writng Narratves in Hybrid EcosystemKai Pata
This paper discusses representing writing narratives in a hybrid ecosystem using an ontospacial model. It proposes that individuals can be provided with more efficient means of interacting with the hybrid ecosystem by using an ontospacial representation to co-construct narratives. The ontospacial model represents narratives and interactions as positions in a conceptual space defined by ontological dimensions. This allows proximity between narratives based on similarity and trajectories that represent storylines as movements between positions in ontospace. Communities form around attractor basins that represent shared perspectives in ontospace.
This document discusses narratives as spatial stories in hybrid ecosystems. It argues that narrative extensions created by readers on social media allow them to feel immersed in a storyworld. Concepts from ecology, like ecosystem and niche, can be applied to hybrid narrative ecosystems to study how media environments, content, and user perception interact. Examples from the book "The Shadow of the Wind" are used to illustrate how narrative elements created by users on social media form different "species" that inhabit the narrative ecosystem through hashtags, geotags, and interactions between users.
The document proposes a curriculum called FILTER that uses a text-focused approach to promote information literacy skills. FILTER ties information literacy learning to close readings, discussions, and creative production based on literary works. The goal is to internalize skills through situated learning experiences and empower teenagers as library users. Participants will engage with materials, discuss readings, research authors, and create collaborative "texts." FILTER aims to facilitate relationships between readers and texts and present information literacy as an iterative creative process. The curriculum's effectiveness will be evaluated through surveys, interviews, participation observations, and library statistics.
Marie Laure Ryan is a literary scholar and critic whose work focuses on narratology, fiction, and cyberculture. She is currently working on an encyclopedia of digital textuality. Her research examines the historical development of narrative through four ages - oral, chirographic, print, and digital. She defines digital text as replicable, editable, and able to reach a global audience. Ryan also analyzes aspects of digital narratives such as their interactive, performative, and networked qualities. She explores how digital narratives can utilize variable discourse, points of view, and plots.
Presented by Natalie Bazan, Director, Hopkins District Library (MI) on February 28, 2013 as part of the Big Talk From Small Libraries Conference.
http://nlcblogs.nebraska.gov/bigtalk
Presented by ARSL Immediate Past President Becky Heil, current President Andrea Berstler, and Vice President/President-Elect Tena Hanson on February 28, 2013 as part of the Big Talk From Small Libraries Conference.
http://nlcblogs.nebraska.gov/bigtalk
This session will cover the importance of local fund raising (in addition to tax income) for keeping technology as up-to-date as possible, and how that can be achieved most effectively. Speakers will discuss the Nebraska Community Foundation and its programs; Lincoln City Library’s fund-raising efforts through its Foundation; ideas from “Turning the Page;” and the establishment of “sinking funds.” The general idea is that keeping library technology must be viewed as part of the cost of doing business in a modern library.
There has been a lot of debate recently over weeding out the Dewey Decimal System in exchange for a more patron- and browsing-friendly Subject Classification System. Can this really work? What are the pros and cons of such a dramatic change? Join us to discover how the Teen Advisory Board of the La Vista Public Library implemented such a change in their teen department. This session will be presented by Lindsey Tomsu, the YA librarian, and Sarah Kreber, a member of the La Vista Public Library Teen Advisory Board, who played a huge part in making this project successful.
An Ontospatal Representaton of Writng Narratves in Hybrid EcosystemKai Pata
This paper discusses representing writing narratives in a hybrid ecosystem using an ontospacial model. It proposes that individuals can be provided with more efficient means of interacting with the hybrid ecosystem by using an ontospacial representation to co-construct narratives. The ontospacial model represents narratives and interactions as positions in a conceptual space defined by ontological dimensions. This allows proximity between narratives based on similarity and trajectories that represent storylines as movements between positions in ontospace. Communities form around attractor basins that represent shared perspectives in ontospace.
This document discusses narratives as spatial stories in hybrid ecosystems. It argues that narrative extensions created by readers on social media allow them to feel immersed in a storyworld. Concepts from ecology, like ecosystem and niche, can be applied to hybrid narrative ecosystems to study how media environments, content, and user perception interact. Examples from the book "The Shadow of the Wind" are used to illustrate how narrative elements created by users on social media form different "species" that inhabit the narrative ecosystem through hashtags, geotags, and interactions between users.
The document proposes a curriculum called FILTER that uses a text-focused approach to promote information literacy skills. FILTER ties information literacy learning to close readings, discussions, and creative production based on literary works. The goal is to internalize skills through situated learning experiences and empower teenagers as library users. Participants will engage with materials, discuss readings, research authors, and create collaborative "texts." FILTER aims to facilitate relationships between readers and texts and present information literacy as an iterative creative process. The curriculum's effectiveness will be evaluated through surveys, interviews, participation observations, and library statistics.
Marie Laure Ryan is a literary scholar and critic whose work focuses on narratology, fiction, and cyberculture. She is currently working on an encyclopedia of digital textuality. Her research examines the historical development of narrative through four ages - oral, chirographic, print, and digital. She defines digital text as replicable, editable, and able to reach a global audience. Ryan also analyzes aspects of digital narratives such as their interactive, performative, and networked qualities. She explores how digital narratives can utilize variable discourse, points of view, and plots.
Presented by Natalie Bazan, Director, Hopkins District Library (MI) on February 28, 2013 as part of the Big Talk From Small Libraries Conference.
http://nlcblogs.nebraska.gov/bigtalk
Presented by ARSL Immediate Past President Becky Heil, current President Andrea Berstler, and Vice President/President-Elect Tena Hanson on February 28, 2013 as part of the Big Talk From Small Libraries Conference.
http://nlcblogs.nebraska.gov/bigtalk
This session will cover the importance of local fund raising (in addition to tax income) for keeping technology as up-to-date as possible, and how that can be achieved most effectively. Speakers will discuss the Nebraska Community Foundation and its programs; Lincoln City Library’s fund-raising efforts through its Foundation; ideas from “Turning the Page;” and the establishment of “sinking funds.” The general idea is that keeping library technology must be viewed as part of the cost of doing business in a modern library.
There has been a lot of debate recently over weeding out the Dewey Decimal System in exchange for a more patron- and browsing-friendly Subject Classification System. Can this really work? What are the pros and cons of such a dramatic change? Join us to discover how the Teen Advisory Board of the La Vista Public Library implemented such a change in their teen department. This session will be presented by Lindsey Tomsu, the YA librarian, and Sarah Kreber, a member of the La Vista Public Library Teen Advisory Board, who played a huge part in making this project successful.
This document discusses how narratives can be used as spatial stories in hybrid ecosystems. It presents three options for how narratives function in these environments: 1) Representing stories in new formats like microblogging, 2) Using narratives to mediate actions, and 3) Forming community niches for narrative mediation. Narratives may enhance spatial storytelling by visualizing niches and attractor areas that guide community members' activities. Open questions remain around telling and reading distributed story fragments and maintaining mutual awareness in hybrid spaces.
This document discusses Walter Fisher's Narrative Paradigm theory and how it relates to social media narrativity. The key points are:
- The Narrative Paradigm theory views communication as storytelling and evaluates stories based on their narrative coherence and narrative fidelity.
- People naturally impose narrative interpretations on information and experiences. Learning involves creating narrative frames to organize new knowledge.
- On social media, individuals construct "narrative learning trails" by appropriating available resources and connecting them through links/shares. This allows for agency in determining knowledge.
- Readers on social media are assumed to be familiar with the topics or able to navigate unfamiliar spaces to engage with content.
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The document discusses the concept of multiliteracies and the increasing complexity of how knowledge is represented and communicated. It notes that knowledge now comes in multiple forms including print, images, video and digital formats. It also discusses the importance of recognizing cultural and linguistic diversity and how literacy goes beyond just reading printed novels to include decoding images and other media.
This document proposes modeling the genealogical domain with ontologies to address limitations of existing standards and systems. It discusses modeling entities, relationships, events and places. Challenges include instance identification, automatic population of ontologies from source statements while maintaining references, and knowledge inference with OWL and SWRL rules. The goal is a common conceptual model to facilitate sharing data between genealogical resources and services by making family ties recognizable without expert assistance.
This document provides an outline for a presentation on appropriate use of sources in academic writing. It discusses key concepts like writer's voice, attribution, plagiarism, paraphrasing, citation patterns, and reporting verbs. The presentation notes that conventions for using sources vary between disciplines, with humanities fields tending to use more direct quotations and integral citations that prominently feature the author. Sciences typically employ non-integral citations to maintain an impression of objectivity. Overall, the document stresses the importance of properly attributing borrowed information and acknowledging conventions within one's own field and genre.
Storytelling, Project Knowledge & Knowledge ManagementEric Brown
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The document discusses the importance of semantic contextualization in Europeana. It argues that Europeana is more than just an aggregation of digital objects and aims to enable knowledge generation about culture. It presents the DIKW/DIKT models to illustrate how data, information, and knowledge are related. Semantic contextualization in Europeana involves representing objects and their relationships using classes, properties, and embedding them in a linked open data architecture. This facilitates knowledge generation and even speculative thinking when interacting with Europeana.
A Narrative Analysis of the Film The Great Debaters and its Relationship to t...Hannah Baker
This document provides an analysis of the film The Great Debaters and its relationship to the Urban Debate League movement. It uses a narrative criticism method to analyze the film's plot, themes, and characters and how they may have influenced and contributed to the culture of the UDL movement, which promotes inclusion, empowerment, and activism. The analysis draws on theories of narrative from Paul Ricoeur and Walter Fisher to argue that stories like The Great Debaters can help explain events in the present by conveying timeless messages about the past.
Crowdsourcing uses contributions from large groups of people to achieve goals. It has helped capture multiple perspectives on historical events like the London riots and 9/11. The wisdom of crowds has also helped solve historical dilemmas by transcribing ancient scrolls and adding new voices to collections. Examples show how crowdsourcing allows people to share their stories of events, solve problems collaboratively, and play games for motivation. People can get involved by contributing to projects, starting their own, or participating in efforts like Wikipedia, museum initiatives, or helping evaluate historical significance.
Information Literacy for 21st Century lifeSheila Webber
This presentation was given by Sheila Webber at the Oeiras a Ler conference held at Oeiras Municipal Library, Portugal, on 20 May 2010 ( http://oeiras-a-ler.blogspot.com/search/label/Encontro%20Oeiras%20a%20Ler). I identify some of the different ways in which various groups of people experience information and information literacy (IL) in the 21st Century, with reference to 21st Century research. I go on to discuss some of the key aspects of IL that need more attention. I see these elements as evolutionary development of IL as a 21st Century concept, not as something completely new and different.
This document discusses various aspects of networked literacies. It covers topics such as blogging, social networking, open teaching, crowdsourcing content, real-time collaboration, issues with inappropriate content and verifiability online. It also discusses concepts like new media texts, the abundance of information, multimodal expression, complex authorship, expanding audiences, and the importance of social connections and digital reputation. Overall, the document examines how networks and new media are changing literacy and the skills needed to navigate online spaces.
The document discusses several hypotheses that were initially dismissed but later gained acceptance:
- Plate tectonics was proposed in the early 20th century but not widely accepted until more evidence was discovered 50 years later, showing continents could move.
- The existence of an aether to transmit light was proposed by Newton and used in Maxwell's equations, but failed to be detected in experiments. Einstein's theory of relativity explained light without an aether.
- Lamarck's idea of acquired traits being inherited, accepted for millennia, was dismissed due to experiments failing to prove it. However, epigenetics shows environmentally induced reversible heritable traits without DNA change, partially validating Lamarck.
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This document provides information about informational and biographical children's literature. It defines informational literature and discusses the differences between terms like nonfiction, expository, and faction. It also outlines criteria for awards that honor excellence in informational books, such as the Sibert Medal and Orbis Pictus Award. Examples are given of past award winners, including books about bears, mammoths, and the creation of the ballet Appalachian Spring. The document concludes by defining biography and discussing how biographies were sometimes dull in the past but can personalize history for readers.
Creative Outlets Confratute 2015 DAY FOURBrian Housand
The document provides guidance for remixing and adapting existing creative works through changes to key elements like setting, genre, narrator, and audience. It encourages evaluating how such changes could make a story better or different from the original. Examples are provided of remixing the story of The Three Little Pigs by changing the setting to Mars and the genre to science fiction. Readers are then prompted to plan their own remix of a story by selecting new settings, genres, narrators, and audiences.
Informational and Biographical Literature . . . and Mice!Johan Koren
This document provides an overview of informational and biographical literature for children, beginning with definitions and discussions of informational texts, nonfiction, and biography. It then examines key award criteria for informational books, such as the Sibert Medal and Orbis Pictus Award, and provides examples of award-winning titles. The document also discusses different approaches to writing biography for children and the importance of accuracy versus fictionalization.
This document provides 101 ways to publish content and discusses various content publishing options. It defines key terms related to content creation and distribution such as publish, creator, publisher, consumer, and hybrid author. It also covers different dimensions of content such as appeals, forms, formats, channels, rights, and scale. Examples are given of Minnesota creators publishing content through self-publishing, music/merchandise sales, filmmaking, and websites/blogging. Resources for content publishing such as Bandcamp, Kickstarter, and WordPress are also discussed.
A playful stroll thru heuristic fields of thought & feeling, focused upon opportunities for Foreign Language Learning Pedagogy to be transformed by New Media (Lev Manovich), NeuroCinematics, WeChat/WhatsApp, English Corners, right-brained learning/acquisition. Wikinomics and the practices of mass collaboration can be used by language learners for income generation--by doing audio editing of their target language to expandtheir level of i+1 (Krashen's concept of expanding one's level of comprehension of the target language input),by using repetition of audio segments (speeches/film dialogues/songs/etc.), silence, background music, slowing the speed of speech (but not the frequency). Such income-generating mass collaboration projects can benefit economically-challenged individuals/schools/NGOs/etc.
Notes on the Importance of Guidelines for Citation of Comic Art in the Digita...Dr Ernesto Priego
Presented on Friday 18 November 2011 at Materiality and Virtuality: A Conference on Comics, Comics Forum 2011, Leeds Art Gallery, UK.
http://comicsforum.org/comics-forum-2011/
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
NCompass Live - June 5, 2024
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Trying to connect and understand teenagers can be difficult and overwhelming at times. So how do you attract teens to the library and keep them engaged? This presentation will offer tips on how to connect with teens, build relationships, along with programming ideas to keep them coming back. Maybe they’ll even bring their friends!
Presenter: Mari Vasquez, Youth Services Librarian, Crete (NE) Public Library.
NCompass Live - April 10, 2024
http://nlc.nebraska.gov/ncompasslive/
Libraries have been offering programming for decades, and in many cases the model has been, "Let’s plan a program, promote it, and see who shows up." This approach hasn’t changed much, even with social and technological changes, not to mention the pandemic and streaming programs. Program planning with a marketing mindset starts with identifying your customer’s needs and wants, then developing programs and services to meet those needs and wants. We’ll discuss how to use research – quantitative and qualitative – to plan and market programs that will engage your customers. We’ll talk about "bundling" programs and services for different audience segments. We’ll also cover how this more strategic approach can save time and resources for your library.
Presenter: Cordelia Anderson, Library Marketing and Communications Consultant, Cordelia Anderson Consulting.
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NCompass Live: Narrating the OPAC: How Can Storytelling and Narrative Analysis Improve the User-Friendliness of the Online Public Access Catalogue
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Presented by:
Mark-Shane Scale
PhD Candidate
University of Western Ontario,
Canada
mscale@bell.net
NARRATING THE OPAC:
How Can Storytelling and Narrative Analysis Improve the User-Friendliness of the
Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)
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Libraries and librarians have many stories to
Introduction: tell.
Goals for this presentation
Main goals are to:
Change how we think about the OPAC
Get us to see how we can narrate our
collections through the OPAC
Get us to see how we can apply
storytelling to our library communication
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My premise:
Whilenew media & technologies create new
forms of storytelling, ancient storytelling
practices can and are impacting the design
and development of new technologies.
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Question is:
The OPAC:
• Resource discovery tool
Can the same • Tells a narrative about human knowledge
principles be applied • A narrative of the knowledge accessible
to informing the through the library
design of the library‟s
OPAC?
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Literature
Storytelling genres of science Various works indicate how
fiction, folklore and storytelling and narrative
mythology (including Old can be applied to
Testament) has impacted technology for the purposes
the development of new of information provision.
technologies
(Laurel, 2001; Weizenbaum, (Powell, 1999; Kendall & Losee,
1976) 1986; Domokos, 2007)
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LIS literature on narratives and stories
Berrypicking Sense-Making
Bates (2005) online databases not Dervin‟s sense-making metaphor
designed based on how people includes narratives and stories as
actually conduct searches. means by which people reduce
uncertainty and bridge information
People pick up fragments of
gaps.
information from various sources and
constructs a final story to organize the Exchange of information often
bits of information (Orr, 1996) accompanied by the exchange of
stories (Orr, 1996; Fisher, 2005)
Also use personal experience
(Schank, 1999; Orr, 1996)
The Bricolage Information grounds
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Literature on stories
Stories in learning Organizational storytelling
The way people approach new Boje‟s (2008) definition of stories –
knowledge acquisition is through the more than one voices
reliance on stories from others
Gabriel (2000) – stories are wish-
(experts) combined with their own
fulfilling fantasies between fiction and
experience in order to learn
reality
something new (Kolodner, 1997;
Schank, 1999) Reality based, but not necessarily
truth/fact
Artful manipulation of facts
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Metaphor for the
OPAC
Following Laurel (1993) and Fisher (2005),
Laurel (1993) critiques the rather than perceiving the OPAC as a tool
metaphors of the computer as a for resource discovery, let us conceptualize
tool, and proposes instead the the OPAC as
metaphor of the computer as a medium facilitating storytelling about
medium. humanity‟s knowledge as well as
A medium facilitating resource discovery.
Fisher‟s idea of information
grounds: liminal space for
exchange of stories as well as
information
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Technology Prototypes for storytelling
First person (journalistic) narratives (Miller, 2008)
Video performance
Text and images (usually photographs)
Timeline approaches (beginning, middle and end)
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Laurel, 1993
prototype:
Fictional personal
storytelling demonstrates the feasibility of using fictional
characters to provide access to non-fiction
information sources.
features 3 agent characters/guides that
provide multimedia access and narrative
approach to navigating information in a
database.
the 3 agent characters or guides embodied 3
alternative perspectives about various topics
in American history: a frontiersman, a Native
American and a settler woman.
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Laurel, 1993 These agents are
prototype: designed based first person narrative account
Fictional personal of incidents and topics related to the
westward expansion in America.
storytelling
cast as anthropomorphic storytellers
performing stories in video format.
characters represent and provide context to
information sources in the database.
Sources of these accounts are derived from
diaries and journals of real historical persons that
experienced the expansion.
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Laurel, 1993
prototype: Credibility of the agent performers established
Fictional personal through a video segment
storytelling introducing themselves,
describing their real-life professions and
the source materials used and lessons learned.
This establishes the agents as storytellers rather
than fictitious characters, thereby reinforcing their
credibility.
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Laurel, 1993
prototype: The agents
Fictional personal represent varied point of views allowing for
storytelling multiple representations of events and
knowledge,
give the user various perspectives from which
to explore the content and the knowledge in
the knowledgebase.
This approach is natural in that in the real world
human beings do not “navigate to” information,
but rather experience information coming to
them from a variety of sources (page 183).
15. Carletto: a fictional Italian 15
anthropomorphic spider, acting as a
virtual guide to a historical site.
Lombardo & • Designed for mobile devices
Damiano‟s (2012) • Virtual representative of the
Cultural heritage interface of the application using
storytelling to guide visitors touring
spider tour guide an old Italian palace.
• is the single-character narrator
performing
dramatically, communicating
factual and fictional information
about places and objects within the
site.
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• produces mobile dramatic performance
Lombardo & on the handheld devices of
users, alternating between information
Damiano‟s (2012) provision of facts and anecdotes that
Cultural heritage actually occurred in the space with
fictional experiences.
spider tour guide • professionally guides the visitor by
discussing and formally describing
rooms, their functions, historic events and
the artistic features and objects in the
room.
• Template or script-based storytelling
approach that responds to visitors
movement
17. augmented reality?
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With Carletto,
• fictional world is superimposed on to
Lombardo & the real world.
Damiano‟s (2012) • follows the visitor by a webcam, by
which he can give contextually
Cultural heritage relevant information to the current
spider tour guide room in which the visitor occupies.
User‟s presence in
a room is input to
Cartello to provide
information on the
location.
18. Developers use
ontological 18
approach to
fragment the
communicative
Carletto knowledge into
units from the
most general to
specific.
Not all information is
Carletto reacts to users‟ provided at once.
location on the mobile Some retained, in case
screen through the user later returns to
annotated scripts. the room.
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What can we learn from the
literature?
The idea of representing viewpoints in information sources
(Laurel, 1993)
Non-fiction information can be presented by imposing and combining
fictional representation with real world factual information (Laurel, 1993;
Lombardo
Such an effort can create an unforgettable experience for those who also
access the information.
(Laurel, 1993; Lombardo & Damiano, 2012)
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find information resources on restaurants
1st narrative:
fictional – based on imagination about how the
world should be (similar to philosophy‟s thought
Method: experiment?)
Sense-making of future possibilities using historical
advances
One query
2nd narrative:
created from dialogue with artificial intelligent
2 narratives conversational agent, modifying the agent‟s
response to more interesting and relevant
(real & responses.
fictional) Sense-making of the present (about how the
world currently operates & problems)
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Fictional story
In a parallel universe, John, a designer, steps into the virtual public library
to use its online catalogue to search for information resources on
restaurants.
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The query
He types into the search box and launches into his search
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The results in the fictional world
On analysis, he realizes that the library‟s catalogue retrieves 3 categories of
results
1. Non-fiction sources
2. Life-writing sources – autobiographies, memoirs of restaurant founders and
workers
3. Fiction – stories with restaurant settings
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Under non-fiction results, John sees the
following:
Magazines and Newspaper articles:
Reviews of restaurants
News features on restaurants
Books:
Hospitality industry textbooks
Food and beverage service text books
Scholarly journal articles
Operating and managing restaurants
Studies, issues and problems in restaurant management
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Under life-writing results, John sees the
following:
Memoirs, autobiographies or biographies of:
Restaurant founders or owners
Employees /former employees
Books, newspaper and magazine articles:
Company documents and publications from
Restaurants
Industry and trade associations for restaurant service providers
Institutions and agencies that monitor restaurants
26. Analysis of the results that John sees: 26
Nonfiction Life-writing
Magazines and Newspaper articles:
Reviews of restaurants Memoirs, autobiographies or biographies of:
News features on restaurants Restaurant founders or owners
Employees /former employees
Books:
Hospitality industry textbooks Books, newspaper and magazine articles:
Food and beverage service text books Company documents and publications from
Scholarly journal articles Restaurants
Operating and managing restaurants Industry and trade associations for restaurant
service providers
Studies, issues and problems in restaurant
management Institutions and agencies that monitor
restaurants
27. Analysis of the results that John sees: 27
Nonfiction Life-writing
Magazines and Newspaper articles:
Reviews of restaurants Memoirs, autobiographies or biographies of:
News features on restaurants Restaurant founders or owners
Employees /former employees
Books:
Hospitality industry textbooks Books, newspaper and magazine articles:
Food and beverage service text books Company documents and publications from
Scholarly journal articles Restaurants
Operating and managing restaurants Industry and trade associations for restaurant
service providers
Studies, issues and problems in restaurant
management Institutions and agencies that monitor
restaurants
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So what if we tried Laurel‟s approach
to presenting such results
J. McDonnel, a journalist from
the Public library press.
Hi, I am J. McDonnel, a journalist from
the Public library press. I have a number
of media articles on restaurants to bring
to your attention.
Breaking news on the trends in the
restaurant industry
Reviews and reports of restaurants
Special news features on
restaurants
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So what if we tried Laurel‟s approach
to presenting such results
J. McDonnel, a professor at the
Public Library school of
hospitality Hi, I am Prof. J. McDonnel, a professor at the
Public Library school of hospitality. I have a
number of research articles and monographs
on restaurants to bring to your attention.
For an overview of the basics see:
Hospitality industry textbooks
Food and beverage service text books
For more current research, check out
these databases
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So what if we tried Laurel‟s approach
to presenting such results
J. Chin, restaurant owner
Hi, I am J. Chin, manager of family
owned restaurant for a number of
years. I want to bring to your
attention a number of:
memoirs, autobiographies and
biographies of:
Restaurant founders or owners
Employees /former employees
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So what if we tried Laurel‟s approach
to presenting such results
Customer of restaurants
Hi, I am J. Fisher, and I have been a
customer of restaurants for years. I
want to bring to your attention these:
Reviews of restaurants
Tips on etiquette
Tips for eating out at restaurants
Consumer guides
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Practical application of results page
Potential solution: Facebook‟s principle of:
“View as specific person”
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Narrative 2:
Actual search in the real world
Let me tell you about what happened to me
the other day when I was searching the
library catalogue of the London Public library
I hear that England is a
great place.
No, not that London. London
in Canada.
I‟m sorry. First thing that
comes to mind when I
think London is England
with tea and scones.
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Narrative 2:
Actual search in the real world
Anyway… The other day I experimented
with the library's online catalogue, and
typed in restaurants. And in my analysis of
the results, I noticed that the first
assumption of the system is that the user
wants non-fiction information.
35. Books are listed first
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and then articles.
Isn‟t that something you
would expect
36. But a person using the
library catalogue may 36
not want to see non-
fiction first.
I‟m quite sure that the
system provides some
way of filtering the
results so that you can
find just fiction
To be fair, I also
noticed that to the
side, one can select
format –
Fiction, picture
book, DVD etc. But still
that might not be
sufficient.
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I checked out the non-fiction section for a life-writing source,
and curiously noted the title:
So I checked it out on Amazon to
see what it was about as well as
any reviews on the book.
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Here is what I found based on
Amazon‟s book description:
Temporarily putting aside his role as playwright, director,
and screen-writer, David Mamet digs deep and delivers
thirty outrageously diverse vignettes. On subjects
ranging from the vanishing American pool hall, family
vacations, and the art of being a b****, to the role of
today's actor, his celebrated contemporaries and
predecessors, and his undying commitment to the
theater, David Mamet's concise style, lean dialogue,
and gut-wrenching honesty give us a unique view of the
world as he sees it.
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You see.
Titles are often misleading. The book
entitled Writing in restaurants by Mamet
has nothing to do with restaurants at all.
While the book is indeed non-fiction, it is
more life-writing or reality based, and
should not be confused in the non-fiction
information category.
40. Fiction results:
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Next, I checked the fiction
category. Key to my observation
was whether or not I could find a
fictional work is set in a restaurant
setting. For this I saw a few results
that matched what I was
expecting to find
Like these 2 resources that
showcase fiction stories in
restaurant settings.
41. Fiction results:
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So I clicked on the title: Simmer
down
And further found that the library
in its subject description has a
category for restaurants under
fiction.
I‟m not sure persons
would be looking for
fiction works based on
settings. I don‟t think that
would be a normal
expectation of any
fiction reader.
42. Fiction results:
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Perhaps not, but, did you
also see that this fiction
book contains recipes?
Hmmm…I get you. So
people can get non-
fiction information out of
supposedly fiction books.
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That‟s right!
But I still had some unanswered questions:
Like what?
1. How do we observe reality-based writing
or more accurately life-writing set in a
restaurant setting?
2. What is provided by the system to facilitate
discovery of restaurant life-writing ?
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In my view, there is no direct way provided
for the user to locate autobiographies and
memoirs of restaurant CEOs, owners or
employees in book formats if they do not
already know the titles or authors.
But I‟m sure that one
can modify the query
to get more specific
results.
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You are right. Indirectly, one can expand the
query term 'restaurant„, like including
„memoir‟ with it.
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Stories have representational
value, placing information in the
context of view points.
Summarizing
learning Storytelling also makes sharing and
accessing information an experience
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Conclusion: WE CAN TELL STORIES ABOUT
OUR COLLECTIONS
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4 Questions for the OPAC of the future
Can we
1. have fictional (imaginary), historical or even real characters as narrators
representing the perspective of information resources/knowledge available
through the library?
2. combine the time line view for browsing purposes or use a “view as”
interface to filter results?
3. base narrators on the demography of users, creating characters that are
imagined experts or others that represent people that users would consult for
advice based on their task requirements?
4. represent dialogic voices, disagreement or disputes over knowledge
(neutrally) without taking sides and let the users decide which voice(s) to
listen to?
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Other questions and issues:
Can such principles be used for our information literacy sessions and
training?
Once exposed, user may no longer need the storytelling tutorial or guide
to use the OPAC.
Should the OPAC storytelling be an opt-in or opt-out
experience, considering that some users are already experts and do need
guidance?
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