transitions: from high school to academic libraries presented by: randy williams, bishop strachan...
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Transitions: From High School to Academic Libraries
Presented by:
Randy Williams, Bishop Strachan SchoolMark Bryant, Humber CollegeCecile Farnum, Ryerson UniversityJeff Newman, University of TorontoDeena Yanofsky, York University
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Who Are We …and What Do We Do?
Randy - Teacher-Librarian, Bishop Strachan School
Mark - Reference and Information Literacy Librarian, Humber College Library
Cecile - Communications and Liaison Librarian, Ryerson University Library
Deena - Reference and Instruction Librarian, Scott Library, York University
Jeff - Undergraduate Instruction Librarian, Robarts Library, University of Toronto
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Who Are You …and What Do You Do?
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Today's Agenda
This session will address the following questions:
• Who are we and why are we here?
• What are the major differences between the academic library and the school library?
• What do your students already know?
• What do your students need to know?
• How can we work together to improvethe transition from High School toUniversity?
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Why Are We Here?
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The Obvious…
Students making the transition from secondary school to college or university will encounter:
• More space
• More volumes
• More libraries
• More librarians
• More changes?
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From High School …
• Single space/seminar rooms
• Smaller and varied staff composition
• Some computer workstations
• Collections geared to clientele
• Limited hours
• Dewey decimal system
• Citation styles?
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… to the University Library
Robarts Library, the Humanities and Social Sciences library of the University of Toronto
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University of Toronto• Located in downtown Toronto.
• Over 30 libraries; approximately 10 million volumes
• 57,000 FTE Students
• Circulated 4,038,471 books in 2004/2005
• 938 online databases
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York University
• Founded in 1959, York's Keele campus is now the largest post-secondary campus in Canada.
• York's libraries are located in five buildings, and contain over six-and-a-half million items - books, print periodicals, theses, archival materials, micro-forms, maps, films and music CDs.
• At the Scott Library, we answer more than 100,000 in-person reference questions every year.
• In 2006-07, over 23,000 students participated in IL classes.
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Ryerson @ a Glance• Located in downtown Toronto
• 21,000 students; 700 masters and PhD students
• More than 80 undergraduate and graduate programs
• Five Faculties: Arts; Business; Communication & Design; Community Services; Engineering, Architecture and Science
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Humber College
• 2 campuses; 2 libraries
• 18,000 full-time students; 55,00 part-time students
• 350 programs
• 100,000 monographs,
• 40 databases (north campus)
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The "Google Generation"
Some of the key problems include:
• Young people don't develop good search strategies to find quality information.
• They might find information on the Internet quickly, but they don't know how to evaluate the quality of what they find.
• They don't understand what the Internet really is: a vast network with many different content providers.
[http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/reppres/gg_final_keynote_11012008.pdf]
The next generation of college students, more wired than any other, might not be as good at Internet research as you may think.
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Since You Told Us …
Librarians
Teachers
Boolean Operations
Popular vs. Academic
Library of Congress Classification
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What do they need to know?
Jeff:– Google vs. fee-based databases, e.g., Scholars Portal– Academic or scholarly sources vs. popular
publications
Cecile:
– Journal articles, books, and other information sources– Dewey classification system to Library of Congress
Randy:
– Knowledge of Boolean logic
Deena:– Getting help, including services like askON.ca
Mark:– Knowledge of Information technology– Time management skills
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Collaboration
So, where do we begin?
• Ryerson University
• York University Libraries
• U of T
• Humber College
Collaboration is an effective strategy that can help reduce student anxiety about the transition to university.
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… to the Future