Library Liaison: Services and OutlookBruce Gilbert

Cowles Library 19 Feb 2008

http://www.slideshare.net/drakelibguy

I. Library Services

What you can do “@Cowles” Access 30,000 Journal Titles, or 50,000 E-books

Get them Anywhere! Accessible in BlueView “tab” as well as the Library

home page: http://www.drake.edu/ Link to any book or article (in BB or elsewhere) with

persistent URL

EBSCO Link Example

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What ELSE you can do “@Cowles” Contact us!

By Phone or Email (reference@drake.edu) Meebo Us! @ “CowlesLib”

“Meebo” screenshot

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What ELSE we have “@Cowles” RefWorks!

Web-based equivalent of “Procite” or “Endnotes”

Refworks screenshot

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Digital Projects: eScholarshare, our Repository for Scholarly

Information Drake Heritage Collections

Both are highly collaborative Both concerned with preserving and developing

stewardship over Drake's Digital Assets

Screenshot for eScholarShare

Screenshot for eScholarShare

Screenshot for Heritage Collections

I. Library Services, COMING SOON!

Coming soon at Cowles! “MyLibrary”; check your own account, renew

your own books SciFinderScholar Ebrary WITHOUT the plug-in Online “tutorials” on linking, using other services More proactive approach towards new faculty

and library services

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Instruction: First Year Services

Mireille (Mimi) Djenno Library 046

Satisfies Info Lit AOI Liaison Librarians

Sean Stone in Sciences is “embedded librarian”

All these offerings are highly collaborative Concerned with enhancing Information Literacy

at Drake

II. Information Literacy

Quote from SelfStudy: Challenges at Drake include:

“Keeping up with advances in teaching technologies, especially the training of teachers and students for effective use of technology in learning.”

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But what is Information Literacy? Cowles Library has always embraced a wider

view (skills and facility with technology PLUS values and ethics inherent in “Information Society”)

II. Information Literacy

Challenges / Opportunities for Information Literacy: “Web 2.0” “Library 2.0” “Business 2.0” “Learning 2.0”

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What is Information Literacy? Applied critical thinking, in the areas of

technology and information resources

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What are the hallmarks of Information Literacy? Knowledgeable of current trends Problem-solving Skeptical Collaborative!

Info Lit in the News:

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How to apply Information Lit, pt. 1

“Old days,” collaboration meant: Us with Vendors Library-to-Library

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How to apply Information Lit, pt. 1

Today, collaboration means: L. with Drake Colleagues L. with “Open” communities

Open Source Software Open Access Initiative (with Harvard signed on!) Open Educational Resources (see

http://www.oercommons.org/ ) L. with “Nonprofit” vendors L. with “Competitors”

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How does this “play out” See Teri's “GoldRush” In search of “Open Source” ILS solution