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This report looks at these questions from the point-of-view of college students and 14- to 17-year-olds. In the original study, we found that college students are more aware of and use libraries’ information resources more than other survey respondents. In addition, the more educated the respondents, the more they continue to use libraries after graduation. Awareness does not always translate into high usage.
Overall, respondents have positive, if outdated, views of the “Library.” Younger respondents—teenagers and young adults—do not express positive associations as frequently. These findings, and more, are valuable insights for anyone seeking to know more about the library usage and perceptions of college students and young people.
Overall, respondents have positive, if outdated, views of the “Library.” Younger respondents—teenagers and young adults—do not express positive associations as frequently. These findings, and more, are valuable insights for anyone seeking to know more about the library usage and perceptions of college students and young people.
The 2003 OCLC Environmental Scan: Pattern Recognition report was produced for OCLC’s worldwide membership to examine the significant issues and trends impacting OCLC, libraries, museums, archives and other allied organizations, both now and in the future. The scan provides a high-level view of the information landscape, intended both to inform and stimulate discussion about future strategic directions.
EDUCAUSE REVIEW | March/April 2005, Volume 40, Number 2
Useful overview of new ways of thinking about the role of library discovery systems in the context of the networked environment. Highlights the necessary changes to the function of library catalogs now that discovery, location, request and retrieval can be separated from one another.
"Much of the discussion is about improving the catalogue user's experience, not an unreasonable aspiration. However, we really need to put this in the context of a more far-reaching set of issues about discovery and about the continued evolution of library systems, including the catalogue, in a changing network environment. In this environment, users increasingly discover resources in places other than the catalogue."
A Columbia Librarian posted a long article about tagging systems and their use in libraries. Interesting reading.
tagged acrl articles folksonomies libraries penntags publicity tagging to_read
by laallen
...and 2 other people
...on 03-JAN-07
A nice set of promises about how to be a librarian in the world today.
A nice essay on Ranganathan, including the Five Laws.
Paper proposals due on May 10.
The Library suggests a minimum list of categories of information that you should use to describe the content of your resources as well as the nature of the digital files themselves. We recommend that you email lib-metadata-help at the start of your project. A Librarian with your area or subject expertise will be happy to work with you in setting up a process and identifying appropriate descriptive terminology.
But is simplicity what librarianship is all about? Is our job to present the complex world of information searching as something so simple a baby can do it? And, is doing so ultimately a good marketing strategy? I don't think so.
I love Cites & Insights, but I swear I just read the last one last night -- they're coming too often. Anyway, I look forward to Walt Crawford's take on the whole Library2.0 craze.
Looks at what libraries and librarians can learn from the world of online video games.