Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Tools for You

About me

• Technical Services means lots of things in our library– Serials– Cataloging – Metadata– Acquisitions– Deploying search tools– Bibliographic instruction and reference

For my information….

• Email?• Devices? Personal | In Class• Content Management Software?• eBooks?• Databases other than INFOhio?• Post Secondary Option Students?

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A word about Digital Natives

10 Strategies To Encourage Digital Natives To Value Information• It sounds counter-intuitive, but periodically create information-scarce circumstances

that force students to function without it.• Illuminate—or have them illuminate—the research process itself.• Do entire projects where the point is not the information, but its utility.• Use think-alouds to model the thinking process during research.• Create single-source research assignments where students have to do more with

less.• Change the assignment mid-course by demanding new resources other than those

most accessible.• Create the need for “open-ended data” they can’t possibly Google.• Have them create a visual metaphor, analogy, or concept map before and after the

research process that demonstrates the role that Google, and Google-sourced information, played.

• Have students create a concept-map or other clever characterization for the limits of Google (or any other search engine).

• Use a balance of both post primary and secondary sources.

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Something old…

• Searching the card catalog is still a very important skill. Students need to understand the concept of how a library works.

• It forms the basis of all library searching skills.

• Trails – www.trails-9.org

The OPAC is the new shelf list

• Our eCollection by the numbers

eBooks – 81,761

eJournals – 23,755 titles

print journals - 218

databases – 28

images, music and video – 140,147

Consistency -- work with what you have

• All of the INFOhio databases are available through OhioLINK– EBSCOHost: Enhanced content purchased at the

college level by OhioLINK; most schools purchase even more content from EBSCO

– Literature Online– Learning Express Library– Mango– Oxford Reference Online– Newsbank– Ancestry

Skill sets -- you can never start too early

• Basic word processing skills are essential• Excel is helpful• PowerPoint will be expected • Content Management Software• Email -- how to email a professor, or

anyone for that matter• Attachments• The “Cloud”• Authentication –

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Something new

• Discovery Tools • eBooks• iMatrix

Something borrowed….

Many students do not understand how to write an argumentative paper.

How to keep up in the digital age

• If you like social media, pick a format you like and use it!– I use Twitter, Pinterest and Facebook

• Twitter is rapid fire updating• Pinterest is great for graphics• Facebook is more mainstream

RSS feeds are still going strong

• Many academic journals provide feeds for new content

• Most publisher platforms offer mobile apps for content

• Many librarians share information through blogs and feeds and are easy to follow

Find me, email me or follow me…

svarney@shawnee.edu

Twitter @suzjohvar

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