Gabe Gossett Librarian for Extended Education at Western Washington University

Interdependence/Interconnected

• Technology Sabbath (Shlain)• “Romanticize” the research process

(Lanier)• Benefits of organizational change 

Virtual spaces

• Distance ed pushing us to develop virtual learning spaceso Experimental phaseo Tools, techniques, and access vary widely by institution

• Hybrid: virtual tools giving choice of access within physical libraries

This is the story . . . Coastal Carolina University (Barbara Burd, Jennifer Shinaberger, Tracy Gaskin, and Casey Schacher)

• Larger university changes leading to new collaborations

• Moving IT into the library • IT learns about librarians, librarians upgrade

skills• Moving library access points into

BlackBoard

The Backchannel to the Backchannel

Poster: Using Focus Groups to Assess Library Services for Distance Users (Jennifer Castaldo and Christine Patterson)

Poster: "Be where Our Faculty Are:" Technology Use Information seeking Workflows (Julia Bauder & Jenny Emanuel) • Survey at Grinnel College and Illinois University • 55% of faculty (67% of junior faculty) use Google

Scholar at least weekly • 32% use mobile devices on the web • 90% use Wikipedia once a month • 77% would definitely use a personalized library web

page • 71% would like to have new book email alerts • 75% want tables of contents delivered over email

Talk: Is there a Role for Trust in Science? (Jean-Claude Bradley)

• The open notebook concept • Moving from a system of peer

review to proof• ChemInfo Validation Explorer:

a database of organic compounds melting points

• Still an open question about long term data management

Vendor product: Springshare's LibAnswers with Multilytics