Post on 04-Jan-2016
Teaching with WorldCat Local: What’s Different?
Meg Grotti, University of DelawareKaren Sobel, University of Colorado-
Denver
Whose Libraries have WorldCat Local?
Disclaimer
Thesis Statement
Agenda
• Results First! What we discovered• Methodology • Themes, challenges and
recommendations• Institutional context• Brainstorming guide• Q&A Discussions Throughout!
What we discovered
• Survey focused upon 3 major themes:– Skills Taught– Populations Taught– Materials Searched
Methodology
• Practical, informal ways of coming up with real questions
• From questions to scholarly inquiry• Identifying WCL academic libraries:
OCLC-WCL-L listserv • “Snowball” survey• Gathering data using Google Forms• Horrible long link to our survey:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&pli=1&formkey=dEtiRkFweDg2MUs2UlVHWVJtQkwtN1E6MA#gid=0
Theme 1: Skills Taught
• New emphasis on Interlibrary Loan, networked libraries
• Shift in searching paradigm• Librarians are teaching with WorldCat
Local in a similar way to traditional catalog systems
Theme 1: Skills Taught:Recommendations
• Multiple Formats= Teaching Moment• Information Dissemination Timeline
• Citation Tools• List function can support groupwork
Discussion
When you teach with WorldCat Local, what information literacy
skills do you tend to emphasize?
Theme 2: Populations Taught
• No great difference between populations taught
• “Tiered Approach”
Theme 2: Populations TaughtRecommendations
• Beginning Researchers:– Build on prior knowledge– Exploration– Format basics
• Intermediate Researchers:– Higher level tasks– Citation /Attribution– Authorities on a subject
Discussion
Do you find yourself teaching WorldCat Local more to some populations than others? Do you find that some populations gravitate towards this resource while others do not?
Theme 3: Materials Searched
• Searching for select material types– Books, a/v
• OR searching for “all”• Why doesn’t anyone focus on article
searching?
Theme 3: Materials SearchedRecommendations
• Searching “all” helps students learn about material formats.
• Article searching always gets results.• Learn who can change what.
Discussion
Who has had good luck with teaching article searching via WCL? Would anyone like to share techniques? Do these work with all patron groups, or only specific ones?
Institutional Context:
• How WCL is integrated in your library• Patrons’ immediate needs• Patrons’ future research needs• Patrons’ backgrounds in terms of
experience, language, and more
Brainstorming Guide
• Different best practices for every institution
• Most institutions need a tiered approach
• Brainstorming guide + your institutional knowledge = WCL teaching success!
Keep in touch
Discussion group:http://groups.google.com/group/wclinstructors
mgrotti@udel.edukaren.sobel@ucdenver.edu
Image Credits and References
All Images were distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) license
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