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CRIG Info Lit “Grim Reaper” Seminar. Gary Hardy [email protected]. Things that worry me about IL:. Terminology Statistics and evaluation Assumptions Lack of agreement in the profession about IL Resourcing, priorities and return on effort What the users are telling us. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Things that worry me about IL: Terminology Statistics and evaluation Assumptions Lack of agreement in the profession about IL Resourcing, priorities and return on effort What the users are telling us
What are we talking about ? Information Literacy Life long learning Face to face Extended sessions Generic principles “They should know this”
Contextual skills Just in time Online, embedded Small chunks Specific tools “They want to know that”
Statistics Average for Victorian CAUL respondents of 14,913
persons in “face to face presentations made as part of formal bibliographic instruction programs and through other planned class presentations, orientation sessions and tours.
Average total students at Victorian CAUL institutions:
46,197
Statistics – two conclusions:1. We aren’t getting anywhere near interacting with the
bulk of our audience with the face to face IL endeavour.
2. The way we are collecting and sharing these very basic statistics is not very illuminating.
Self-Serve #1
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4,000,000
6,000,000
8,000,000
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14,000,000
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Catalogue
EBSCO
Materials Availability 1063 respondents 91.2% obtained the item they wanted Of the 8.8% of items not found:
22% not in catalog15% item not on shelf15% item on hold or loan12.5% not on home campus3.8% have print but user wants electronic7.6% other system issues
User factors – user skill? >10% - ie less than 1% of total
Do we need to check the underlying assumptions about search?
Implicit assumption that the students need Librarians to show them how to search?
What others are doing: Students/sessions CAUL 2007
1 University of Notre Dame (2005 - ) 1.5263
2 University of Queensland 1.3274
3 University of the Sunshine Coast (1998 - ) 1.0139
4 Bond University 0.9923
5 University of Western Australia 0.9270
43 University of Southern Queensland 0.2003
44 Charles Sturt University 0.1583
45 University of Ballarat 0.1464
46 Macquarie University 0.1082
47 University of New South Wales 0.0359
What the users are telling us….
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Ready access tocomputers/Internet/softwareAccess to photocopyingand printing facilities
The main texts andreadings I need for myworkConvenient servicehours
Instruction in library use,when needed.
