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The COPPUL-D Information Literacy Viewlets Initiative
Preparing to Advance Information Literacy
Carmen Kazakoff-Lane
ACCOLEDS/DLI Training Session
November 28th,2005
History of the Project COPPUL DE Information Literacy
Group Purpose: Find ways to collaboratively
enhance Info Lit for DE students. 1999? COPPUL-D Initiated a project to
jointly develop Doing Research from a Distance Tutorial. General Information Literacy Tutorial for
DE Students
History – High Hopes
History – Cont…
Little usage. As a result in 2004 we decided that:
The project was a bomb
No student wants to do big tutorials
History – Cont… We needed to create tutorials that
were:
Point of Need (spec. databases)
Short, easy to understand and did not bore people silly.
Viewlets Answer: Viewlets
http://www.campusmanitoba.com/students/LibraryTutorial/Psychinfo_Viewlet_cd_quality_viewlet_swf.html
http://www.campusmanitoba.com/students/LibraryTutorial/Introduction_to_Library_Research_Tools_viewlet_swf.html
Viewlets - ProsViewlets advantages: Quick and easy to create Used screen captures, audio, pictures,
pointers, quizzes and text inserts to create tutorials which displayed searches in manner that was: Quick and effective More enjoyable to use Interactive
Viewlets - Cons Needed to create not one but a
multitude of tutorials Each would need to be kept up to
date Meant we would have to find a way
to collaboratively develop, upload, and download tutorials
DE Information Literacy Group
Task of discovering the viability of sharing fell to the COPPUL DE Info Literacy Group.
Met in September 2004 along with Karen Hunt Public Service input deemed to be
important. Discussed “What Is to be Done”?
Conclusions of Group
1. Need a set of Guidelines Agreed that we need point of use tutorials with
specific design elements for databases. Colors, Fonts Searches, Brief and Full Record Displays Short Link to Advanced Search
Nothing stopping anyone from creating and loading their own style of viewlet for other objects
Action: Bill Badke (Trinity Western
University) asked to develop a set of guidelines for review by: COPPUL DE COPPUL Public Services Group
Submitted for review in Oct 2004 After feedback they were accepted.
Conclusions – cont.
2. Decided to do an inventory of COPPUL databases to learn how much overlap there are in database subscriptions
Action: Fall 2004 Inventory of COPPUL
Databases Questionnaire submitted to COPPUL DE
and Public Services list. 13 responses 40+ databases where 4+ libraries used
same database from same vendor Likely More
Starting Point for Development.
Conclusions – cont.
3. Needed to test for Exchangeability
Action: Paul Pival and Karen Hunt did test using
different versions of Viewletbuilder - Successful
Do not know if we can exchange from other pieces of software that use Flash technology.
Conclusions – cont.
4. Needed a home for the Viewlets Archival quality Accessible to all COPPUL Librarians Preferably include a Creative Commons
License Allow for Metadata
Action:
March of 2005 Paul Pival announced that the University of Calgary had upgraded it Learning Objects Repository D-Space
Informed us that COPPUL could house Viewlets there and that COPPUL librarians could access it.
D-Space Viewlet Home Page
https://dspace.ucalgary.ca/
Tutorial on Uploading Viewlets
https://dspace.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/43053
D-Space – cont. Secure and requires registration
URL: https://dspace.ucalgary.ca/
Librarians can upload and download viewlets from D-space
Includes a Creative Commons License Provides form for including relevant
Metadata Searchable
Conclusions – cont.
5. Metadata Needed: Author of Viewlet When it was created and updated Name of Database Name of Vendor Name of Viewlet Description of Viewlet Keywords Abstract
Metadata – cont.
Software used to create Viewlet (Version) File type Size Viewing Time Link to Viewlet Optional information
contact information for the Viewlet’s creator intended audience for the Viewlet
Action:
As mentioned before D-space provides us with a form into which we can enter all relevant Metadata.
Where to go from here?
Process for Collaboration. People to examine it and opt to
undertake development. NOTE: Will also look for feedback
about process as it begins.
Why Collaborate?
Provides us with opportunity to offer better service to on and off-campus users alike. Fewer people use in-library reference,
check out books, or walk into the library. Have students logging into our systems on
a 24/7 basis
REASON: New Students New students cannot or will not
come into the library Distance Education Students
Distance limits access
Millenials – wired/wireless generation Expect services to be online, wireless, 24/7,
customer oriented and professional Expectations set by Google, Amazon, etc.
New Students – cont. Lifelong Learners, Adult Learners,
and Nontraditional Students Work & Family Commitments 2002 survey: 73% students
nontraditional¹ 30-50% say access to library is
problematic.
1. Susan Choy. Nontraditional Undergraduates: Findings From the Condition of Education 2002. NCES: Washington, D.C.: 2002
Things to consider Center for Postsecondary Research
- Study on Student Engagement Higher student engagement = higher
persistence. Schools that ‘channel student time
and energy toward effective educational activities’ [i.e. engaged students] did ‘two things very well”
Student Engagement1. They teach students early on how to
take advantage of institutional resources for their learning
Translation for libraries: Provide Information Literacy
2. They make available to students what they need when they need it.²
Translation for libraries: Anytime /Anywhere – 24/7 is key.
2 National Survey of Student Engagement:Pathways to Collegiate Success: 2004 Annual Survey Results. Center for Post-Secondary Research: Bloomington, IN, 2004 (p.6)
Available Online: http://nsse.iub.edu/html/report-2004.shtml
Back to Viewlets
Libraries have a role to play in increasing Student Engagement & Persistence Do so by introducing students to our
resources and telling them how to use them. Do so by making instruction more engaging Do so by reaching them where they are.
REMEMBERStudents Need our Help!
Back to Viewlets – cont.
Viewlets are the best tool we have to accomplish this: Short, to the point. Allow us to quickly create Point of need tutorials. Independent of time, space or opening hours
restrictions (* for nontraditional / DE students) Engaging for younger learners (i.e. Millenials)
Convergence of needs being met by Viewlet tech.
Viewlets - cont
However: Large no. of databases, vendors
and changing interfaces makes this undertaking a large one.
No one can go it alone.
Positive Side: We have what it takes to be successful
Completing the Task
1. May need to incorporate Training However: Easy to learn Online Courses from Qarbon Likely can be done locally
2. Need to incorporate some rules of engagement
Final Quote
“Our users have lives. They don’t want to spend their lives in our libraries…As much as we may love [libraries], they want to get what they need and get on with their lives. So the quicker we can get them what they need and out the door the more satisfied they are … and that it what it is all about.”
Roy Tennant. Keynote Address at WLA / MPLA Conference. Oct 17, 2005
Discussion Follow COPPUL-D Model? Audio: To use or not to use? Rules of Engagement from here:
Sign up forms? Training? Buy ViewletBuilder for all libraries?
Cost: $159 / User - Educational Rate Feedback / Assistance mechanism?
E.g. COPPUL Viewlet Listserv for mutual support?
Other?
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