UWF Digital Library Resources Access and Digital Collections Ray Uzwyshyn, MLIS, Ph.D. Head, Digital and Learning Technologies University of West Florida Libraries February 2010

Researching a Topic This is Definitely No longer the Case Academic Research 15 years ago Libraries used to purchase most of our research, academic journals and all books in print

Research Today – Access to Electronic Information The Libraries Pay for Access for 323 Vendor Databases, 42,000 Academic E-Journals, 713k/year, 30%, Access to 3.2 million/year as part of State University System Essentially We are Paying for Information Access (From Anthropology to Chemistry to Zoology)

Library Catalogs Through History Navigating bodies of knowledge to enable relationships, augment intelligence, create new knowledge. Katalogos/Scroll/Stroll Metaphor 200 B.C

Current Library Homepage

Getting Help Online

Instant Search for Books and Other Materials

Articles and Online Help

Library Weblog News and Announcements

Published Articles of What’s Important and New at the Libraries

Online Suggestions Box

UWF Digital Libraries

Visual Virtual Exhibit and Website

Opening Physical Archives Online Archon: Archives Online Beginning to Place the Archives Online Guides: 477 Finding Aids

Archives and Finding Aids Online

West Florida Photo History /SpecialCollections.htm

From Book Warehouse to Information Commons New Library Services Printing Research Tools (Wordprocessing) Basic and Advanced Computing Future Plans: Digital Media Lab/Multimedia Studio (Digital Literacy) New Physical Computing Research Services

Thank You For Coming Questions? Contact Information: Ray Uzwyshyn