A presentation given to the Oklahoma State University Library for their Library Futures Series. The presentation is about finding ideas for technology innovation, streamlining web content for reuse, preparing for mobile, and preparing for interacting with users in new ways.
Mr. Ken Roberts - F103 – Reframing Our RolesJ.D. Thomas
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Mr Ken Roberts, President, Ken Roberts Library Consulting
The No. 1 issue for libraries planning their future is engaging staff in future planning and changing the way they view their jobs. Many library staff fear that future changes will result in their jobs being eliminated or require new skills they may have difficulty learning. Yet if everyone in the library reframes or looks through the new “frame” together to see the future, these shifts to roles, skills, and ways of working become clearer,much less frightening, and much more exciting. Join this reframing exercise and see what strategies and techniques you can come up with!
Challenges facing Academic Librarians with Examples from LebanonHoueida Kammourié
This is a presentation given during Elsevier LibraryConnect Seminar held on April 17, 2012 at Riyad Nassar Library, Lebanese American University, Beirut - Lebanon
Engaging Your Community Through Cultural Heritage Digital Libraries Karen S Calhoun
Based on the book Exploring Digital Libraries, this ALA Techsource webinar examines cultural heritage collections in the context of the social web and online communities. Calhoun and Brenner explore the possibilities and provide examples of digital libraries' shift toward social platforms, along the way discussing how to increase discoverability and community engagement, for instance through crowdsourcing.
Challenges and opportunities for academic librarieslisld
Research and learning behaviors are changing in a network environment. What challenges do Academic libraries face? What opportunities do they have? A presentation given at a symposium on the future of academic libraries at the Open University.
Mr. Ken Roberts - F103 – Reframing Our RolesJ.D. Thomas
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Mr Ken Roberts, President, Ken Roberts Library Consulting
The No. 1 issue for libraries planning their future is engaging staff in future planning and changing the way they view their jobs. Many library staff fear that future changes will result in their jobs being eliminated or require new skills they may have difficulty learning. Yet if everyone in the library reframes or looks through the new “frame” together to see the future, these shifts to roles, skills, and ways of working become clearer,much less frightening, and much more exciting. Join this reframing exercise and see what strategies and techniques you can come up with!
Challenges facing Academic Librarians with Examples from LebanonHoueida Kammourié
This is a presentation given during Elsevier LibraryConnect Seminar held on April 17, 2012 at Riyad Nassar Library, Lebanese American University, Beirut - Lebanon
Engaging Your Community Through Cultural Heritage Digital Libraries Karen S Calhoun
Based on the book Exploring Digital Libraries, this ALA Techsource webinar examines cultural heritage collections in the context of the social web and online communities. Calhoun and Brenner explore the possibilities and provide examples of digital libraries' shift toward social platforms, along the way discussing how to increase discoverability and community engagement, for instance through crowdsourcing.
Challenges and opportunities for academic librarieslisld
Research and learning behaviors are changing in a network environment. What challenges do Academic libraries face? What opportunities do they have? A presentation given at a symposium on the future of academic libraries at the Open University.
Created by Joyce Valenza and Deb Kachel for an LSTA Commonwealth Libraries project to train school and public librarians to use LibGuides as a tool for collection curation.
Explores how library collections have been, are and will be built in the context of changing information-seeking behavior, changes in the nature of collections, the social web, and new enabling technology.
Social metadata for libraries, archives and museums: Research findings from t...Rose Holley
The presentative gives research findings from the Research Libraries Group (RLG) on Social Metadata Working Group. The group worked from 2009-2010 researching sites that used social media features before making some recommendations to libraries, archives and museums.
This presentation was given at Bobcatsss2013 in Ankara.
Once the library assembled a collection and people came to the library to use it. Now, people build communication, workflows and behaviors around a variety of network resources. The library needs to think about how it is visible and relevant in those workflows and behaviors.
The evolution of digital libraries as socio-technical systemsKaren S Calhoun
Introduces and orients participants to digital libraries as socio-technical systems--that is, systems based on the interplay of technology, information, and people. The objective is to expose thematic connections between digital library infrastructure, cultural heritage and scholarly collections, social forces, and online community building. Key challenges of the current environment include interoperability, community engagement, intellectual property rights, and sustainability. Invited presentation for the Nimitiz Library staff, US Naval Academy.
Presentation at EMTACL10, http://www.ntnu.no/ub/emtacl/
Guus van den Brekel
Central medical library, UMCG
Virtual Research Networks: towards Research 2.0
In the next few years, the further development of social, educational and research networks – with its extensive collaborative possibilities – will be dictating how users will search for, manage and exchange information. The network – evolved by technology – is changing the user's behaviour and that will affect the future of information services. Many envision a possible leading role for libraries in collaboration and community building services.
Users are not only heavily using new tools, but are also creating and shaping their own preferred tools.
Today's students are incorporating Web 2.0 skills in daily life, in their social and learning environments.
Tomorrow's research staff will expect to be able to use their preferred tools and resources within their work environment.
Today's ánd tomorrow's libraries should support students and staff in the learning and research process by integrating library services and resources into their environments.
Script at http://www.bohyunkim.net/blog/archives/3215
Recording at http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/60105499
The closing keynote for the 2015 Library Technology Conference at St. Paul, MN at March 19, 2015. http://libtechconf.org/ #LTC2015
Funding Mobile Innovation in the Library: The Why and HowRachel Vacek
This is the keynote for the Spring 2010 CALLR Meeting (http://www.callr.us/). Mobile technologies are having a big impact on libraries today. This presentation covers why libraries should be paying attention, highlights libraries that are doing innovative things with mobile technologies, and how to get funding to bring mobile devices into your library.
Collections unbound: collection directions and the RLUK collective collectionlisld
A presentation given to RLUK Members' meeting at the University of Warwick.
The library identity has been closely bound with its collection. However this is changing as research and learning behaviours evolve in a network environment. There are three interesting trends. First, atttention is shifting from a library-centric view of a locally owned collection to a user-centred view of a facilitated collection in places where the library can add value. Second, there is growing emphasis on support for creation, for the process of research, as well as for the products, the article or book. And third, we are seeing a changing perspective on the historic core, the print book collection. Increasingly, this is being seen in collective ways as institutions manage down print, or think about its management in cooperative settings, or retire collections as space is reconfigured around research and learning experiences. This presentation also provides preliminary findings for the analysis being carried out by OCLC Research of the RLUK collective collection.
Library discovery: past, present and some futureslisld
A presentation at the NISO virtual conference on Webscale Discovery Services, 20 November 2013.
Considers some of the issues that have led to the adoption of these services, and some future directions.
Distinguishes between discovery (providing a library destination) and discoverability (making stuff discoverable elsewhere).
Collection directions - towards collective collectionslisld
How the emergence of new research and learning workflows in digital environments is affecting library collecting and collections. Several trends are reviewed. In the light of diversifying competing requirements, the need to manage down print and develop shared print responses is discussed.
Presentation to OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Council meeting. 13 Oct. 2014.
January 2015 marked the 2nd year of ODROID magazine and humbled for this issue I'm featured in it. For January 2015 issue I contributed article about the internals of Zygote and it's relevancy to Android app.
Created by Joyce Valenza and Deb Kachel for an LSTA Commonwealth Libraries project to train school and public librarians to use LibGuides as a tool for collection curation.
Explores how library collections have been, are and will be built in the context of changing information-seeking behavior, changes in the nature of collections, the social web, and new enabling technology.
Social metadata for libraries, archives and museums: Research findings from t...Rose Holley
The presentative gives research findings from the Research Libraries Group (RLG) on Social Metadata Working Group. The group worked from 2009-2010 researching sites that used social media features before making some recommendations to libraries, archives and museums.
This presentation was given at Bobcatsss2013 in Ankara.
Once the library assembled a collection and people came to the library to use it. Now, people build communication, workflows and behaviors around a variety of network resources. The library needs to think about how it is visible and relevant in those workflows and behaviors.
The evolution of digital libraries as socio-technical systemsKaren S Calhoun
Introduces and orients participants to digital libraries as socio-technical systems--that is, systems based on the interplay of technology, information, and people. The objective is to expose thematic connections between digital library infrastructure, cultural heritage and scholarly collections, social forces, and online community building. Key challenges of the current environment include interoperability, community engagement, intellectual property rights, and sustainability. Invited presentation for the Nimitiz Library staff, US Naval Academy.
Presentation at EMTACL10, http://www.ntnu.no/ub/emtacl/
Guus van den Brekel
Central medical library, UMCG
Virtual Research Networks: towards Research 2.0
In the next few years, the further development of social, educational and research networks – with its extensive collaborative possibilities – will be dictating how users will search for, manage and exchange information. The network – evolved by technology – is changing the user's behaviour and that will affect the future of information services. Many envision a possible leading role for libraries in collaboration and community building services.
Users are not only heavily using new tools, but are also creating and shaping their own preferred tools.
Today's students are incorporating Web 2.0 skills in daily life, in their social and learning environments.
Tomorrow's research staff will expect to be able to use their preferred tools and resources within their work environment.
Today's ánd tomorrow's libraries should support students and staff in the learning and research process by integrating library services and resources into their environments.
Script at http://www.bohyunkim.net/blog/archives/3215
Recording at http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/60105499
The closing keynote for the 2015 Library Technology Conference at St. Paul, MN at March 19, 2015. http://libtechconf.org/ #LTC2015
Funding Mobile Innovation in the Library: The Why and HowRachel Vacek
This is the keynote for the Spring 2010 CALLR Meeting (http://www.callr.us/). Mobile technologies are having a big impact on libraries today. This presentation covers why libraries should be paying attention, highlights libraries that are doing innovative things with mobile technologies, and how to get funding to bring mobile devices into your library.
Collections unbound: collection directions and the RLUK collective collectionlisld
A presentation given to RLUK Members' meeting at the University of Warwick.
The library identity has been closely bound with its collection. However this is changing as research and learning behaviours evolve in a network environment. There are three interesting trends. First, atttention is shifting from a library-centric view of a locally owned collection to a user-centred view of a facilitated collection in places where the library can add value. Second, there is growing emphasis on support for creation, for the process of research, as well as for the products, the article or book. And third, we are seeing a changing perspective on the historic core, the print book collection. Increasingly, this is being seen in collective ways as institutions manage down print, or think about its management in cooperative settings, or retire collections as space is reconfigured around research and learning experiences. This presentation also provides preliminary findings for the analysis being carried out by OCLC Research of the RLUK collective collection.
Library discovery: past, present and some futureslisld
A presentation at the NISO virtual conference on Webscale Discovery Services, 20 November 2013.
Considers some of the issues that have led to the adoption of these services, and some future directions.
Distinguishes between discovery (providing a library destination) and discoverability (making stuff discoverable elsewhere).
Collection directions - towards collective collectionslisld
How the emergence of new research and learning workflows in digital environments is affecting library collecting and collections. Several trends are reviewed. In the light of diversifying competing requirements, the need to manage down print and develop shared print responses is discussed.
Presentation to OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Council meeting. 13 Oct. 2014.
January 2015 marked the 2nd year of ODROID magazine and humbled for this issue I'm featured in it. For January 2015 issue I contributed article about the internals of Zygote and it's relevancy to Android app.
Shopper power notes slide deck no voice over 3.0Keith Scovell
Shopper Power - Social & Mobile
CPG & Retail Industry
Power Shifts, Shopper Solution Examples, Outlook, Suggestions, Sources
Narration attached to each slide
This book includes stories from educators detailing the many ways ArcGIS Online supports critical thinking, global awareness, information competency, communication, and collaboration in higher education.
Notes from attending FORCE2019 conference in Edinburgh (October 15-18), covering a range of topics around Research Communications, e-Scholarship, Open Science and Open Access. Links on last slide for full conference programme and presented materials available online.
Web-scale Discovery Services are becoming an integral part of libraries' information gathering arsenal. These services are able to use a single interface to seamlessly integrate results from a wide range of online sources, emulating the experience patrons have come to expect from Internet search engines. But despite their ability to streamline searching, discovery services provide a wide set of challenges for libraries who implement them. This virtual conference will touch on both the potential of discovery services as well as some of the issues involved.
Cite symposium Open Education, Open Educational Resources and MOOCsopen ed, o...CITE
CITERS2014 - Learning without Limits?
http://citers2014.cite.hku.hk/program-overview/keynote-belawati/
13 June 2014 (Friday)
14:00 – 14:50
Keynote 2: Open Education, Open Educational Resources and MOOCs
Speaker: Professor Tian BELAWATI (Rector of Universitas Terbuka, Indonesia and President of the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE))
Chair: Dr. Weiyuan ZHANG (Head of Centre for Cyber Learning, HKU SPACE)
The library and the network: scale, engagement, innovationlisld
Presented at Georgetown University Library. Discusses ongoing reconfiguration of libraries by networks. A shift from infrastructure to engagement around developing research and learning needs. Also includes some analysis of Georgetown collections in the context of Worldcat.
In this presentation, Alex Juhasz, Director of the Mellon DH Grant and Professor of Media Studies at Pitzer College, along with Ashley Sanders, Digital Scholarship Librarian and DH specialist, will describe
(1) what the digital humanities is (and digital scholarship more broadly)
(2) the opportunities the Mellon DH grant and the Claremont Colleges Library provide for faculty and students to learn more, and
(3) present a snapshot of some of the exciting work already happening at the 7Cs.
ETUG Spring Workshop 2014 - Getting the Mix Right: Implementing Open Educatio...BCcampus
Implementing open education practices is a multidimensional challenge for educators. In this session the presenters share data and findings from their research into the practical challenges of open education practices implementation in higher education. Using the analogy of mixing different audio tracks to produce a harmonious acoustic blend, they discuss the blend of elements that need to be considered and balanced in promoting open educational practices. The presentation is followed by small group discussions to further explore solutions to challenges raised.
The OERs: Transforming Education for Sustainable Future by Dr. Sarita AnandDr. Sarita Anand
This ppt is made for M.Ed.,(M.A. Education) and Ph.D. level student's OER related knowledge and course content. The ET & ICT in Teacher Education is highly concerned with lesson plan and content requirement and creation in daily teaching. So, this PPT on OER will help them to know the enormous platforms of OER available to use, reuse, remix for any level of education in general and in higher education particularly. Student will be not only be aware of it but also explore and use for a sustainable future of education system.
This PPT will also be helpful for the Teachers and Teachers Educators for becoming the OER literate and frequent users.
From Siloed to Connected - Using Engagement as a Means to Improve the Culture...Rachel Vacek
An organization's culture is complex and unique, and is made up of deeply seated values, beliefs, expectations, traditions, and motives that shape how employees respond to situations. In this session, learn how a small team in an academic library’s IT division has sought to enhance its culture, reduce the number of silos, improve the employee experience, and expand potential partnerships throughout the library and beyond. We’ll share how we gathered and prioritized ideas and subsequently offered programming with opportunities to learn from one another and from guest speakers. We touch on some of the documentation we put in place to bring some consistency and structure to onboarding. We’ll also discuss the training we offered to raise awareness of racism and better understand how racism appears on the job, particularly in IT work, as well as how we encourage colleagues to critically examine how to bring that lens to our division and overall library through meaningful action.With the move to being completely remote in March 2020, the team also hosted sessions that addressed communication, productivity, and social challenges within the division’s culture. Finally, we’ll highlight how we’ve assessed all this work and made strategic efforts to make the framework for the various programs reusable in coming years. Attendees of this session will leave with a plethora of ideas and considerations for how to enhance their own library culture through engagement, information sharing, and assessment.
Search, Report, Wherever You Are: A Novel Approach to Assessing User Satisfac...Rachel Vacek
In an effort to assess user experience and satisfaction with searching the University of Michigan Library catalog, we developed an online data collection tool that captured both data on user searches and their reports on various aspects of the search experience. We successfully piloted the tool, demonstrating both the usefulness of the assessment data and the readiness of the tool for use with a larger group of campus stakeholders. We focus in this paper on the features and deployment of the data collection tool, and we also discuss our pilot phase findings and our plan to use the tool in future assessment work.
Our Website Redesign Project and the Creation of a DEIA statementRachel Vacek
This presentation was delivered at the User Experience Leadership in Academic Libraries Meetup at North Carlonia State University Libraries in Raleigh, NC, on Monday, November 4, 2019.
Personal README Files: User Manuals for Library StaffRachel Vacek
Teams at three libraries are using personal README files to improve communication. As README files tell you how to use software, personal README files tell you how best to interact with teammates. Presenters will share the hows, whys and benefits of incorporating personal README files into your team's practice.
Presentation given at the Designing for Digital Conference in Austin, Texas, on Monday, March 9, 2020.
Transforming Organizational Culture Using UX StrategiesRachel Vacek
Many libraries hope to reimagine and transform their organizational cultures as well as their physical and digital spaces to better represent their expertise, collections, and resources, and to meet the evolving needs of their user communities. Some libraries use assessment and user experience methodologies to "prove" their value and to demonstrate student success. In this 60-minute presentation, the presenters will discuss the importance of how establishing user-centered values for the library can be an impactful strategy coupled with empowering library staff to become UX advocates. They will present methods, team structures, and approaches used within their libraries aimed at facilitating organizational and cultural change that puts the user at the center of service design, collaborative partnerships, and strategic and data-driven decisions.
Practicing intentionality in team and project workRachel Vacek
As part of our library's website redesign project, we are working to intentionally espouse and elevate principles of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in our work to ensure they inform and accompany all stages of a project, and to be a model for other projects. Learn how we're integrating these principles into team formation, project structure, communication and assessment plans, user research, and how this work impacts the library.
http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/150634
Transforming library culture with a Digital Accessibility TeamRachel Vacek
By intentionally creating positions that incorporate accessibility into job responsibilities, and through the formation of a Digital Accessibility Team (DAT), our library has been able to further establish a culture of accessibility advocacy and awareness. Learn about DAT's accessibility services, including consultations, evaluations, and support for those who want to build accessibility best practices into all stages of projects and service design.
http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/150635
Service Design: Thinking Holistically About Services and TechnologyRachel Vacek
In Spring 2017, our library started to transform how it designs and implements its virtual and physical services iteratively through user and staff engagement and service design thinking. Service design is a user-focused technique that involves understanding and planning for user needs, service touchpoints, and employee and user workflows. This presentation will use a case study to illustrate how we integrated user needs, current and future library services, and technology in the redesign of a web application and the service offering. Attendees will learn the basics of how to create a service blueprint.
Customizing Discovery Interfaces: Understanding Users’ Behaviors and Providin...Rachel Vacek
Customizing a library discovery layer using open-source software enables libraries to tailor services to its users, understand user behavior at user, department, and campus levels, and build integrations with library and campus services. Learn how and why a research library built a discovery interface to consolidate multiple interfaces into one.
This presentation was given on March 5, 2018 at the conference Electronic Resources & Libraries, in Austin, TX.
Challenges and Opportunities in Customizing Library Repository User InterfacesRachel Vacek
This presentation will dive into the ongoing challenges that academic libraries often face when improving the user experiences of out-of-the-box and open source repositories. Fueling the challenges are the ambiguity and fast-changing nature within the field of digital scholarship and the constant flux of technology platforms and tools. Fortunately, many libraries are paying more attention to users’ motivations and responding by designing user interfaces that support particular formats and contexts. We’ll explore emerging opportunities with repositories in looking at how far libraries should go in providing customizations to balance stakeholder and user needs, and how to plan for users’ ever-shifting expectations.
This presentation was part of a NISO and NASIG webinar, "Library As Publisher, Part Two: UX and UI for the Library's Digital Collections" and was presented on March 14, 2018.
Transforming an Organization through Service and Space Design StrategyRachel Vacek
Learn how one library is engaging with its user community to implement a service framework to transform its organizational capacity to design, deliver, and iterate high quality virtual and physical services in 21st century learning and research environments. This framework, through pilots and prototypes, informs future space transformations and will help create aligned and impactful user experiences. Presenters will share strategies and UX tools for engaging an organization in this type of work.
Fostering Great Experiences for UX-Tasked Student WorkersRachel Vacek
Library UX work can include conducting user research, analyzing data, managing stakeholder expectations, and making design recommendations. This can be overwhelming for solo UX librarians or small teams. In this session, learn how different institutions are utilizing student workers to assist with UX projects and providing them with great learning experiences. Hear the benefits, challenges, and success stories of student workers with UX responsibilities and how they can make a strategic difference in your library.
Fostering Organizational Change through Service and Space Design StrategyRachel Vacek
In Spring 2017, the University of Michigan Library completed an engagement with brightspot strategy, consultants who worked with our academic user community and staff to design a service framework and space strategy to guide our organization's work into the future. This holistic framework and philosophy have the potential to transform our large organization's approach to designing and delivering aligned and impactful user experiences. A Service Design Task Force was formed to take this strategy and begin to design pilots and prototypes for new and evolved services and spaces, with a particular focus on enhancing the library's ability to partner around consultation, digital scholarship, and designing for emergence. The three members of the Task Force represent expertise in learning and teaching services, user experience, space design, discovery services, and web technologies. Our goal in this work is to transform our organization's capacity to design, deliver, and iterate high quality virtual and physical services in 21st-century learning and research environments within the library through user and staff engagement, rapid prototyping, and design thinking. In our presentation, the Task Force members will share current and future strategies for engaging the organization in this work, including tools and formats for design and discussion that have supported our work with the library community. We'll also discuss next steps for piloting and prototyping new service ideas in existing library spaces in order to inform future space transformations.
Keeping UX Practical: Integrating User Experience Practices into ProjectsRachel Vacek
I participated in a Library Journal webcast on September 27, 2017, along with New York University’s Iris Bierlein and Emerald Publishing’s Kat Palmer, called “Smoothing the Path of the Research Journey: Designing for User Experience Excellence in Academic Libraries.”
This presentation is 1 of 3 presentations from that webcast.
Abstract: Leading scholars and librarians have used assessment techniques from personas to eye tracking to pin down just what are the best practices in user experience design for academic libraries. But different campuses have different needs, and as technology changes–and user expectations evolve in response–great UX remains a moving target. This webinar will cover the essential UX tools to designing an excellent experience for your own unique users–and share some key takeaways from sponsor Emerald’s own research.
Own the User Experience: Provide Discovery for Your UsersRachel Vacek
In the past several years, discovery systems have come a long way in enabling library staff to customize their user interfaces. However, there are still limitations to what a library can do to meet its particular user community’s needs. Fortunately, technology has advanced to a point where it’s becoming easier to use off-the-shelf, open source components to compliment your discovery index in order to create a highly configurable discovery environment. In this session, learn about how and why the University of Michigan Library chose to build a new discovery interface, the advantages and additional responsibilities of doing so, and considerations for your own discovery environment.
Customizing Discovery at the University of MichiganRachel Vacek
Panel of 3 ARL libraries will highlight the customized implementations of their respective discovery services and discuss the need for flexibility in discovery to meet institutional goals as well as the needs of diverse users. Panel will discuss trends in discovery UX related to APIs, vendor interfaces, and user personalization.
Contextual Inquiry: How Ethnographic Research can Impact the UX of Your WebsiteRachel Vacek
A contextual inquiry is a research study that involves in-depth interviews where users walk through common tasks in the physical environment in which they typically perform them. It can be used to better understand the intents and motivations behind user behavior. In this session, learn what’s needed to conduct a contextual inquiry and how to analyze the ethnographic data once collected. We’ll cover how to synthesize and visualize your findings as sequence models and affinity diagrams that directly inform the development of personas and common task flows. Finally, learn how this process can help guide your design and content strategy efforts while constructing a rich picture of the user experience.
Assessing Your Library Website: Using User Research Methods and Other ToolsRachel Vacek
This is a presentation given to the Oklahoma chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries. It's about using web analytics and content audits as well as a variety of user research methods to better understand your users and assess and improve your website.
This is a keynote presentation that I presented to the Oklahoma Chapter of the Association of Research Libraries on looking at how academic library websites in the next few years might look, and how the research and design process has evolved in the past decade or so.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
Palestine last event orientationfvgnh .pptxRaedMohamed3
An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
Chapter 3 - Islamic Banking Products and Services.pptx
Preparing for Technological Changes within Academic LIbraries
1. Preparing for technological
changes within academic libraries
Rachel Vacek, Head of Web Services
University of Houston Libraries
@vacekrae, revacek@uh.edu
Library Futures Series, Oklahoma State University Library
5. Outline
• INNOVATE
– Create opportunities for technology innovation
• STREAMLINE
– Streamline and integrate web content
• MOBILIZE
– Plan for relevant and needed mobile services
• PREPARE
– Interact with library users in new and unexpected
ways
5
6. INNOVATE
If you always do what you always did, you
will always get what you always got.
- Albert Einstein
6
7. Innovation within the UH Libraries
• Micro-grant program
– Events, contests, services
• Tuesdays with TED
• Tech training program
• In-house experts teach tech classes
• Brown bag lunch discussions about technology
conferences recently attended
• Tech gadget petting zoo
• Reading group – articles from Journal of Library
Innovation, or anything else thought-provoking
7
8. Innovation on campus / in community
• Collaboration with other departments on
campus
• Collaboration with a class
• Digital signage
• Gamification
• Events
• “Field trips” to other facilities on campus or to
other libraries
8
9. The Cougar Social
Media Showcase,
held in 2010, was an
event that engaged
local universities as
well as academic
libraries to share
how diverse groups
incorporated social
media into various
aspects of higher
education.
https://sites.google.com/site/cougarsocialmediashowcase/ 9
10. This free event, first held in
2011 and again in 2012,
focused on new and
developing trends in library
discovery systems and
provided an opportunity for
attendees to discuss the
implementation, usability,
and evaluation of discovery
tools.
Discovery Day Camp 2011: http://info.lib.uh.edu/p/ddc2011
Discovery Day Camp 2012: http://lws.lib.uh.edu/sites/ddc2/ 10
11. Technology training program
The inspiration for the UH Libraries’
“Technology Training Program” came
from Learning 2.0 online program
(often called “23 Things”) that Helene
Blowers created while at the Public
Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg
County. Since 2006, over 250 libraries
worldwide have created similar
programs.
In 2010-2011, we offered a similar
discovery learning program designed to
encourage library staff to explore new
technologies and reward them for
participating in the program over the
course of a year.
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12. Tuesdays with TED
Every other week each
summer, I have hosted a
TED Talk viewing and
discussion over the lunch
hour. I found relevant and
timely topics, posted a
schedule, and invited
anyone in the library.
Feedback was encouraging
and people overall liked
the ability to discuss topics
that aren’t often
addressed in libraries but
could potentially have an
impact.
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13. iPhone app made by students
In 2009, an iPhone app for searching the UH Libraries’ Catalog was developed by
graduate students in the “Ubiquitous Computing” course in the University of Houston
Computational Physiology Lab. The app has since been retired and removed from the
Apps store, and we now use Library Anywhere for our mobile catalog, available through
our mobile sire: http://m.lib.uh.edu.
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14. Campus mobile walking tours
In early 2012, we
collaborated with the
Admissions office and
UH IT to create a
campus walking tour.
It also highlights
images from our
Digital Library /
University Archives
for key buildings or
locations across the
campus.
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15. INNOVATE: Key concepts
• Create a culture where
– Risk-taking is rewarded
– Failures are just opportunities where you learned
more than you expected
– Innovation and discussion about ideas are the
norm, not the occasional activity
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16. INNOVATE: Key concepts
• Create a culture where (cont.)
– Experimental collaboration with students, faculty,
or other campus partners is encouraged
– Events facilitate wider discussion about topics or
ideas
– Support is demonstrated by a commitment to
funding innovation
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17. STREAMLINE
It is failure that guides evolution; perfection
provides no incentive for improvement, and
nothing is perfect.
- Colson Whitehead, novelist
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20. Multiple access points
• Users can enter into your library site from
– Course management system
– Search engine
– University website
– Bookmarks in their browser
– Off campus
– Marketing flyer
– Social media
– From a mobile device
– From different types of computers
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23. Multiple sources for content
• Website CMS
• Mobile website CMS
• LibGuides
• LibAnswers
• Blogs
• Social Media
• And multiple people throughout the library
create that content
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25. Organizational politics need to change
• Applications are managed by multiple
departments within the library
• Departments need to be less isolated, more
agile, and willing to work closely with one
another and with stakeholders
• Usability test results, analytics, transaction
logs, database usage, etc., need to be
transparent to everyone within the library
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26. Take advantage of APIs
• What is an API?
– An API is a way for a website or service to talk to
another website or service
– You can mix information and media from other
services into your own site or application
• Example
– Yelp uses the Google Maps API to show where
restaurants are on a map
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28. APIs in libraries
• Some APIs allow for complex interactions,
others just permit widget construction
• Most ILSs, institutional repositories and
discovery platforms provide APIs
• Many content management systems also have
APIs
• Structured data coupled with APIs means
content can more easily be pulled across
multiple platforms
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29. Why is this important?
• Streamlining web content / data makes it
easier for your library to maintain that content
• It’s easier to create a consistent, single, unified
user experience
• Helps to prevent duplicative work
• Makes your content more flexible and
reusable
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31. What are we doing
at the UH Libraries
to streamline and improve
our web user experiences?
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32. Web User Experience (UX) Program
• Usability testing on any application or service
within the library
• Dedicated librarian provides this service
• Budget for
– Software: TechSmith Morae software, CrazyEgg Click
Analytics, Google Analytics, transaction log tool
– Hardware: 2 desktops, 2 laptops, web cameras,
camera for recording mobile device usage
– Training: workshops, webinars, data analysis
– Incentives: food, contest prizes, gift cards, and swag
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33. IA3 Committee
• IA3 (It’s All About Access)
– A library committee
dedicated to explore ways to
improve access and make
connections between
physical and digital sources,
and provide users with an
expanded context for
exploring materials without
being limited by format
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34. APIs we created / use / will use
• Staff Directory – content is pulled from our
intranet to our main and mobile websites
• Hours – content is pulled from our main
library website to our mobile website
• Electronic Databases – we parse an exported
MARC file to display certain information about
each database on our main library website,
and that info could be pulled into our mobile
website, course management system, etc.
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35. APIs we created / use / will use
• Digital Library – content will be pulled into a
custom user interface, and could be pulled
into a mobile version
• Finding Aids – pull records into specific
subject-based collection pages
• Discovery landing page – pull info from
multiple resources into a search landing page
• And many more…
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36. C.O.P.E.
Create Once,
Publish Everywhere
Daniel Jacobson’s philosophy, API guru and software engineer at Netflix
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37. STREAMLINE: Key Concepts
• More web-based services are in every area of
the library, from public services to technical
services
• There is an ever increasing amount of systems
to maintain
• It is more complicated to fold that increasing
amount of systems into a single UX on the
library’s web presence
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38. STREAMLINE: Key Concepts
• Using open source or custom built systems or
hosted systems with APIs can help with
maintenance and the single UX
• Remember that there is no single solution,
and this is not an easy process
• You may need a dedicated web developer(s)
to build applications or work with APIs
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39. MOBILIZE
Technology has become as ubiquitous as the
air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious
of its presence.
- Godfrey Reggio, film director
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40. Changing trends
• NMC Horizon Report: 2012 Higher Education
Edition:
– People expect to be able to work, learn, and study
whenever and wherever they want to
– The technologies we user are increasingly cloud-
based, and our notions of IT support are
decentralized
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41. Time-to-Adoption Horizon
• One Year or Less:
– Mobile apps
– Tablet computing
• Two to Three Years
– Game-based-learning
– Learning analytics
• Four to Five Years
– Gesture-based computing
– Internet of things
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44. 64% of mobile
phone time is
spent on apps
(Nielsen,
April 2012)
http://na.ad-tech.com/sf/wp-content/uploads/DigitalConsumer.pdf
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45. Adults spend more
media time on
mobile than
newspapers and
magazines
combined
(eMarketer,
December 2011)
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http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1008728
46. 61% of people who visit a mobile
unfriendly site are likely to go elsewhere
(Karim Temsamani, Interactive Advertising
Bureau (IAB), February 2012)
https://snaphop.com/2012-mobile-marketing-statistics/
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47. In a 2011 EDUCAUSE study of undergraduates:
55% own smartphones
62% have iPods
21% have a tablet
TWO-THIRDS of the students use
these devices for academic purposes
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48. What does
this mean for
libraries?
What do
library users
want most?
http://www.thedigitalshift.com/201
2/02/mobile/the-state-of-mobile-
in-libraries-2012/
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51. Think differently about the RSS feeds are quick and
hierarchy of your homepage easy but have limitations
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52. Include catalog and/or
LibGuides comes with a
discovery platform, but be
mobile interface, too
clear on tool’s purpose
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53. Show computer Pull in hours from our
availability Hours API
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54. You have videos? Create a Show off your images on
channel and include them your library’s Flickr site
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55. Features we have coming soon
• Mobile version of the Digital Library
• Expanded computer availability to other labs
in the library
• Mobile friendly databases
• Library equipment availability
• Room/computer reservation
• More social media integration
• Emergency alerting service
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57. QR codes in the UH Libraries
• To connect our
physical and virtual
collections
• To offer additional
services
• Marketing
• Contests and games
• Exhibits
• Informational signage
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58. Potential QR code applications
Printed handouts To get more info, lecture links, library resources, etc.
Assignments / Tests To ensure anonymity in grading.
Classroom / Lab To view instructional video on how to use equipment.
Equipment
Submit Surveys / To link directly to web-based feedback forms, submit
Feedback positive/negative feedback by scanning a particular code, etc.
Experiential To enhance learning games, historical tours, etc.
Learning
Marketing signage To get more event info, schedule, map of location, etc.
Books / Journals To link to e-versions or supplemental material.
Study Aids To make cheat-proof flashcards.
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59. MOBOLIZE: Key concepts
• Understand your users mobile behaviors and
needs before you decide between a mobile app
or website
• Don’t just recreate your entire website in a whole
new mobile website
• Start small, add more complex features over time
• Walk a day in your users’ shoes to get a feel for
what services might be helpful on a mobile
device
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60. MOBOLIZE: Key concepts
• Reuse your content if possible via APIs to not
have to maintain content in multiple places
• Be willing to try new mobile services and
understand that not all of them will be
successful
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61. PREPARE
You can design and create, and build the
most wonderful place in the world. But it
takes people to make the dream a reality.
- Walt Disney
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62. Moving from search to discovery
• Location aware services
– Foursquare
– Yelp
• Pinterest pure discovery on things you like,
and then organize the things you like
• A mashup of content/data from multiple
systems can enhance discovery
• “Frictionless” access or sharing is automatic,
not manual
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63. Explosion of data
• There is a growing increase in the need for
data curation, management, and preservation
• Libraries also create lots of content and have
systems full of content that people might need
– Web content: hours, staff directory, database list,
computer/equipment/room availability, research
guides, jobs, e-journals,
– Collections: finding aids, digital collections,
institutional repositories
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64. Potential uses for that data
• Digital humanities
initiatives on campus
• Custom discovery
interfaces
• Specific departments
on campus
– For example, pull library hours into digital signage in
student union or resident halls
– Builds trust on campus – I’ll share my data if you share
yours
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65. Potential uses for that data
• Libraries need to grow from purely collection-
based to also include creation-based
• Library users might want to use the data in
new and creative ways
– Spurs innovation
– Why just build the APIs for your own purpose?
– Encourage communication and engage users
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66. PREPARE: Key concepts
• Users want to access, share, and easily
discover resources and services anywhere,
anytime, and on any device
• Build tools that you can use to help your
library, but share those tools with others, too
• Web content and data that is flexible can be
used in ways you’d never image
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67. Additional Resources
• Futures Thinking for Academic Librarians: Higher Education
in 2025 (Staley and Malenfant, 2010)
– http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/issues/value/futures20
25.pdf
• The Value of Academic Libraries: A Comprehensive
Research Review and Report (Oakleaf, 2010)
– http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/issues/v
alue/val_report.pdf
• How College Students Manage Technology When in the
Library for Crunch Time (Head and Eisenberg, 2011)
– http://projectinfolit.org/pdfs/PIL_Fall2011_TechStudy_FullRepo
rt1.1.pdf
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68. Additional Resources
• NMC Horizon Reports, Higher Education Editions, 2011 and 2012
– http://www.nmc.org/system/files/pubs/1316814265/2011-Horizon-
Report%282%29.pdf
– http://nmc.org/pdf/2012-horizon-report-HE.pdf
– Video summary: http://youtu.be/NyQK2ZucXJI
• ECAR National Study of Undergraduates and Information
Technology (EDUCAUSE, 2011)
– http://www.educause.edu/Resources/ECARNationalStudyofUndergrad
ua/238012
• The State of Mobile in Libraries 2012
– http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2012/02/mobile/the-state-of-mobile-
in-libraries-2012/
• Value of Academic Libraries: A look forward (Hinchliffe, 2010)
– http://crln.acrl.org/content/71/9/466.full
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69. Thank you!
Rachel Vacek, Head of Web Services
revacek@uh.edu
http://rachelvacek.com
Presentation also available on
http://www.slideshare.net/vacekrae
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Editor's Notes
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