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What the physical library can teach us about
the digital library
Sally Jo Cunningham1, Nicholas Vanderschantz1, Claire Timpany1, Annika Hinze1,
George Buchanan2, Nina Reeves3
1University of Waikato, New Zealand
2City University London, UK
3Middlesex University, UK
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Our interests over the past decade
Physical interactions in physical document
collections (music, books)
Prefer naturalistic settings over artificial
environments
Initial approach: descriptive, as few pre-
conceived notions as possible
Goals: suggest further avenues for digital
collection support
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Methods
Anonymous observations
CD shops
Libraries
Bookstores
Think-aloudprotocols (accompanied
shopping / library visits)
Interviews
Focus groups
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Shopping for music
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What ordinary information behaviorsdo people exhibit when interacting
with large collections of music?
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Previous music behavior investigations
Anecdotal: people often can hum a few barsof a song
Lab experiments:
Which part of a song do people remember?
What metadata do people remember?
How much of a song do people remember?
How accurately can we hum songs?.
Music reference desk question logs
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Method
Anonymous participant observations
NZ, UK CD shops (20+ hours)
NZ Libraries (4 hours)
Accompanied shopping (5)
NZ, UK Interviews (6)
UK focus groups (2 x 5 participants)
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Browsing is a significant activity
Music shopping is shopping around, not shoppingfor
Searching and browsing are often interleaved
Serendipity: in WWW music resources,You also cant choose random CDs, which I suppose is theadvantage of shops as you can just search at random.
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Browsing by genre
Genre is important, but problematic
I have trouble finding things sometimes, sometimes agroup or person can fit into more than one categoryPop music can be alternative or easy listening sometimes,or hard rock, or rap, it can be any of those things.
Genre often described by intended use for music(gym music, study music), by mood
(
depressing
,
happy
),
People find it easier to provide examples of a genrethan to define it: more like this
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Text is important!
Known-item searches by metadata With the usual problems:
I have a lot of trouble looking up a song and I dont know whosang it.
Lyrics searching would help:
They really need to come up with a better way for people to lookup music if they know a few words of the song.
Text on CD spines for quick scanning:Unfortunately theyre not in alphabetical order, so I have to gothrough the whole damn thing.
Tracklists to confirm selection:The titlesare they familiar to me, can I hear the song in my
head?
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Text
What sort of additional metadata beyond performer,
title, date?
The lyricsdo they have the words to the song. Anythingbiographical about the artist, what was inspirational to
him, when it was written, where it was recorded.
Basically the more information the better.
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Music shopping is collaborative
Families, friends, romantic couples
Shopping for others, as gifts
Bonding: showing that we have similar tastes,
know each other
s needs
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Music shopping is surprisingly visual
Cover art to locate, identify genreIll quite often spot something across the store and go ooh ooh
ooh.
To locate, identify particular CDs
Often I know what the album looks like from the TV ads. As a clue to contents:
What would this sound like?
Tool for collaborative shoppingHave you seen this?
And the visual is attractive and adds to theenjoyment of the experience!
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Digital directions
Expanded metadata, text search for MIR
systems (integrated with Query By Humming)
Genres, mood are a continuing interest
Pay more attention to browsing!
MIR systems should be a pleasure to see,
browse, play in
This collaborative, social aspect is interesting
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Children in the physical library
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What do children do when theyinteract with large physical document
collections?
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Previous research primarily:
Small number of participants
Focused on fine-grained selection
activities Choice between small number of books
Choice of book for school assignment
Mediated book selection
Log analysis of Childrens Digital Library
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Method
Anonymous participant observation of children in
bookstores and public libraries
11 sessions, 14 hours total
Conducted during school holidays
Manual notes only
Shadowing exercises
7 childrenDebriefings of parents
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Adults and children have
different goals
Adult Child
Acquire interesting books to
read at home
Have fun
Locate books within the
(known) time limit
Have fun until parents drag
them away
Stay within upper limit on(known) number of selections
What, theres a limit???
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Fun in a library /bookstore
can distract from reading
For the digital library: resist gratuitousanimations, games, activities
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But kids do want to interact with the
ideas in the books
Rose as a ballerina, like the one in her book
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Its not all about the books: having fun with
family and friends
Showing off interesting finds
Reading to each other
Reading side by side
Getting book advice
Giving book advice (evenbetter!)
Rejecting book advice (best!)
Why is the DL model of a solitary, isolated user?
Father: How about this
one, its about Justin
Bieber.
Daughter (approx. 11):
I said I wanted a good
book.
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Parents are kids DL users too
Parents act as gatekeepers, rejectingBooks that are too adult
Books that are too young
Books that are just gross
Parents want reassurance over the quality and
appropriateness of collection
One parent characterized an online library as scary. Whoknows what books are there, if they're appropriate, if there's
been a virus and now it has porn? There's no librarian.
There's no trust.
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But kids want (some) independenceSetting: the newspapers and magazines section of a bookstore.
Mom is browsing at magazine rack. Her son, about five years old,
comes over with five books that hes picked from the childrens
section. Mom reminds him that he can only have one. He spreads
the books out on a nearby table. He thinks and thinks, finally culls
the choices down to two, but still cant make up his mind.Boy: Mom, which one should I buy? Which one do youlike? Which
one should I get?
Mom: You buy the one you want, that you like.
Boy: No, you tell me.Mom: Well, I think you should buy this one [points at one of the
two books].
Boy: I hate that book.
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Browsing is based on visual, spatial
characteristics
Cover, spine as clues to content
Cover most important to youngest kids
Browsing by interesting sections of books
Browsing is blazingly fast!
But changes in layout, book ordering causeconfusion Aisha, age 6, tries to show
the me her favorite books
in a local bookstore:I want
to show you something
oh, they change things
every week! Everythings
such a bumble now, I cant
find anything.
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What next?
Focus on the choice: what prompts a child to
pick a particular book?
What do children understand about the contents
of a book, based on its physical aspects?
How do children manage their books at home?
How do children act in the digital library and
bookstore?
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Social information behaviour
in bookshops
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We see a lot of groups of people!
What are they doing collaboratively,
socially?
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Related work Collaborative Information behaviour
Use of books [Bohley, 2011, Bryant et al]
Use of ebooks [Pearson et al, 2012]
Information use in a group [Reddy et al 2008,Sonnonwald et al 2000]]
Librarian/Patron [Procter et al, 1998]
Childrens collaboration [Cunningham, 2011]
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Book-basedsocialnetworking
Sharing: librarything.com,goodreads.com, shelfari.com
eReader: kindle,inkling, kobo
post-purchase / post-loan activities
No research
very scant knowledge
about book selectionin group context
Social presence
Shared space and
awareness
Ambient awareness
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Observations
anonymous observations in 5 shops
activities of groups of two or more customers
96 people in 42 groups
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AUpscale
second hand
NZ
BResearch
university
NZ
CLarge chain
NZ
DSpecialist art
& architecture
NZ
ELarge chain
USA
35 3 1 2 1
?
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Observations
Children:six parent/child groups(total nine children)
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female
25%
mixed
67%
male
5%
?3%
Age:
Gender:
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3 Patterns: macro-level
Socialinteraction
Collaborativesearch
Independentsearch
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3 Patterns: macro-level
Socialinteraction
o chatting
o waiting forfriend
o passing time
o dating
while browsingfor andsampling books
G7: two customers told each other about their
countries of origin using travel books as props.
ogetting to know each other
obooks as tools to facilitate the conversation
G4: young couple looking though display book "The
Batman Films" on the sofa
opointing to images
opage-by-page exploring
oreading aloud + explanation
seemed to be a means of him introducing her to an
interest of his (Batman movies).
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3 Patterns: macro-level
Collaborativesearch
sharedinformation
need
helpingsomeone
to search
G6: couple searchedtogether for books.
oboth search
omeet with their books
ocompare side-by-side
oturn pages together
ocompare indexes
oread out loud
ocompare content
G23: use of cover design toidentify a familiar book.
opointing, flipping
oturning pages together
oreviewing book visually
ooften accompanied by
verbal and nonverbal cues
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3 Patterns: macro-levelIndependent
search
independentsearch
individualmotivations
occasionallysharing their finds
G8: 2 women with independent search goals
o1st:"I'm gonna run around this corner and try to find
the book I want, it's a book about cooking for a baby"
oRunning commentary by searcher
o2ndwoman reads text messages, then looks for books
oshow books to each other
oshared experience: social gathering + searching forspecific material
ogroups, pairs, families
overbal and nonverbal communication with
synchronous and asynchronous interactions
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3 Patterns: macro-level
Socialinteraction
o chatting
o waiting forfriend
o passing time
o
Datingwhile browsingfor andsampling books
Collaborativesearch
shared
informationneed
helpingsomeone
to search
Independent
search
individualmotivations
independentsearch
occasionallysharing their finds
24 8
11
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Sharing Behaviours: micro level
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verbal
non-verbal
Typical pattern:
ocome in together & go to shelves
oone person drifts to near-by section
oother browses and then catches up
Interaction in subtle physical cues in
facial expression and body language
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Bookshop as a social space
Both socialising & locating information
Book shop: aspects of stores & libraries (but
free-er)
Bookshop: backdrop for talking aboutpersonal matters (with books as props).
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G34: Mum starts dancing and gets Daughter to dance,and they dance to the middle of the shop.
G7: introduced themselves to each other using books oftheir home countries (this is called 90 mile beach,So here is the central part of Bangkok).
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New Requirements for DL
Cater for both task-oriented and serendipitousinformation searching behaviours.
Observations from libraries see [Twidale et al, 1997]
Support intuitive and light-weight sharing that is
not co-located and potentially asynchronousSome similarity to sharing behaviour in co-reading
(typically co-located and synchronous) [Pearson et al, 2012]
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New Requirements for DL
light-weight support for informal, transitoryand fluent behaviours based on implicitunderstandingCompared to formal work groups w/ heavy-weight
interaction
understandings of each others objectives less formed& less consequential and across short time-spans
motivations and goals may change frequentlymutual understanding of interest and tastes are
grounded in shared social and personal backgrounds
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New Requirements for DL
DL as third place?
a place of refuge other than the home or workplace where peoplecan regularly visit and commune with friends, neighbours, co-workers, and even strangers [Metha 2010]
"mega-bookstores" are deliberate, not accidental, social spaces ,[Trager, 2005]
shop D was a "mega-bookstore" but social interactions occurred in allobserved shops w/o being designed to facilitate this behaviour.
Observed bookshops as third places
G36: Dad called "Come on you lot, we're coming back tomorrow"
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Thank you for your attention.
Suggestions or Questions?
Sally Jo [email protected]