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The Liaison Librarian and the Taylor Family Digital Library Chris Thomas January 9, 2007.

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1 The Liaison Librarian and the Taylor Family Digital Library Chris Thomas January 9, 2007

2 Roles and Responsibilities 1. Consultations Resources, strategies and skills 2. Collections Identify, acquire and assess 3. Teaching Course-based Discipline-centered

3 Trends in Learning Mobile and personal technology User expectations – open access, individualized services Increase in collaborative learning Learning occurs anytime and anyplace “[College students] regularly use search engines, e-mail and instant messaging to obtain and share information. The library is not the first or only stop for these information seekers” (OCLC, 2006)

4 Taylor Family Digital Library Personal “In the field” Stations Ad hoc Educational Course management software Audio / video casting Elluminate! session

5 Collaboration in the TFDL Digitization iCOMS 201

6 Looking into the Future Avatars A graphical image of a user Imprinting visual replicas of ourselves, working and collaborating in a virtual space

7 For Further Reading Bennett, Scott. (2006). The choice for learning, The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 32 (1), 3-13. Katz, Richard N. (2006). The ECAR study of undergraduate students and information technology, 2006 – key findings. http://www.educause.edu New Media Consortium. (2006). 2006 Horizon Report http://www.nmc.org/ OCLC. (2006) College students' perceptions: Libraries & Information Resources. http://www.oclc.org/ PEW Internet. (2005). Digital divisions. http://www.pewinternet.org Prensky, Marc. (2001). Digital natives, digital immigrants. http://www.marcprensky.com


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