Simply Does It
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Simply does itKatherine Rose, Information Systems Librarian, Regent’s University London
UK Summon and Information Skills Day, November 10th 2015
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Regent’s University London is…
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• An independent university• A charity• A not-for-profit higher education formed of
seven schools• A multisite Library service
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“Developing tomorrow’s global leaders”
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• Higher education on the site since 1908 through Bedford College
• Regent’s College grew out of different educational institutions 1984 – 2009
• Became a University and acquired AIU London in April 2013
Interesting times…
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RULDiscovery is…
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• EBSCO Discovery Service• Purchased: summer of 2012• Implementation: August – October 2013• Heavily locally branded• Integrated into Blackboard, Library Catalogue,
external and internal websites
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Highlights• RULDiscovery Day – November 6th 2014• Record session and search stats October 2015• Compulsory research skills module for all
undergraduate business students with an assessment based around RULDiscovery
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“Now we have a discovery tool, do we need to teach Information Literacy?”
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YES, now so more than ever
Image credit: Ian Joughin, University of Washingtonhttp://www.washington.edu/news/2012/11/29/international-study-provides-more-solid-measure-of-shrinking-in-polar-ice-sheets/
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The growing divide…
Students’ information seeking behaviour and expectations are changing constantly
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The basic skills and concepts they need for their studies are not
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- natural language- no definition between sources
- Encourages definitions, not discovery
- Keywords- importance of source types
- What makes a journal ‘academic’
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Library teaching at Regent’s University London
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Teaching pre-Discovery • Powerpoints• Screenshots • Inductions as primary contact• Information force-feeding• No central point of information
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September/October 2011
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January 2013
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Teaching post-Discovery• Flexible• Targeted • Interactive• Easy and recognisable central point of
information
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Games
Basic understanding of different sources- card exercise -
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Games
Thinking around your topic
Generating keywords around a picture- part of postgraduate inductions-
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Stealth information literacy
Embedding basic information literacy ideas into RULDiscovery:- Finding and recognising different sources- The concept of peer-review- Keywords and subjects
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Thinking about keywords
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Inductions and info lit sessions
hours of info lit sessionshours of inductions
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Conclusions
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Discovery services are both part of the problem and part of the solution
• They make it easier to teach information literacy
• But they do nothing to diminish the need for information literacy
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- students’ information seeking behaviour
- expectations- Generation
- Keywords - Databases- Journals- Peer-review- Discovery services
Information literacy teaching = the bridge