FACULTY OF EDUCATION JUDY O’CONNELL

Strategic Directions for School Libraries SCIS Consultation 4 December 2012

This is our context! Multi-literate, multi-device curriculum environments Natural user interfaces & game-based learning Expanding ‘services’ & collaborative spaces New information pathways & cloud environments Accessible and searchable collections Critical thinking and authentic problem solving Socially networked & collaborative Web 2.0 Copyright, creative commons, digital citizenship

.... our augmented environments reality

http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2012-horizon-report-K12.pdf Horizon Report K-12

JUDY O’CONNELL

CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY

.... our library services reality

The spaces and places of libraries are physical and virtual, adopting and adapting Web 2.0 media tools to enhance and envelop school learning communities into a series of globally powered learning commons—dynamic, collaborative 21st century library environments!

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CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY

This is our context!

Semantic Web

of knowledge Semantic Web

of intelligence

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An introduction to the Semantic Web http://goo.gl/Wudfz

JUDY O’CONNELL

CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY

How does search impact the way students think and the way we organise information access?

cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo by fatboyke (Luc): http://flickr.com/photos/fatboyke/2984569992/

Google creates the illusion of accessibility

http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation/index.html http://www.wolframalpha.com/educators/

JUDY O’CONNELL

CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY

Whereas traditional library metadata has always been focused on helping humans find and make use of information, linked data ontologies are focused on helping machines find and make use of information.

linkeddata.org schema.org

On the web – of the web ~ http://kcoyle.net/presentations/lita2011.html

This uri from the Library of Congress http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85042531 has now become the globally available, machine and human readable, reliable source for the description for the subject heading of ‘Elephants’ containing links to its related terms (in a way that both machines and humans can navigate).

Open Library is an open, editable library catalog building towards a web page for every book ever published. Project of the Internet Archive.

http://openlibrary.org/

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CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY

This is our context! .... our library services reality

The catalogue has been a silo but with RDA data can move beyond bibliographic and authority records RDA encourages the recording of sufficient data to support more precise collocation RDA emphasizes the importance of relationships RDA adds precision to access points RDA provides greater internationalisation RDA builds a display of results that conveys meaningful information to the user

This is our context!

Metadata ~ what are the rules of engagement? Schema ~ what about controlled vocabularies? Users ~ what are their access needs Interface ~ how many access points? Data ~ what are the opportunities for user engagement? Media ~ what are the elements of interactivity? Access ~ what can we learn from the semantic web?

.... old questions, new answers

JUDY O’CONNELL

CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY

This is our context! .... OPAC as discovery interface

JUDY O’CONNELL

CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY

Context aware: Points on the curriculum

Points on the interest continuum Capacity to support learning discovery!

Access aware: Interfaces to support searching and discovery Search aware: Natural, predictive, responsive Results aware: Multimodal, multi-depository, relevant, filtered

How do you stack up?

Strategic directions for school libraries!

.... today’s novelty is tomorrow’s norm

JUDY O’CONNELL

CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY

Are you prepared?

New skills New knowledge New metadata New open access New global connections New learning community