Strategic Directions for School Libraries
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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!
JUDY O’CONNELL
CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY
This is our context!
Semantic Web
of knowledge Semantic Web
of intelligence
Web of
information Web of people &
social information
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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/
JUDY O’CONNELL
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
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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