The Liaison Librarian and the Taylor Family Digital Library

Chris Thomas

January 9, 2007

Roles and Responsibilities

1. Consultations Resources, strategies and skills

2. Collections Identify, acquire and assess

3. Teaching Course-based Discipline-centered

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)

Taylor Family Digital Library

Personal “In the field”

Stations Ad hoc

Educational Course management software Audio / video casting Elluminate! session

Collaboration in the TFDL

Digitization

iCOMS 201

Looking into the Future

Avatars A graphical image of a

user Imprinting visual replicas

of ourselves, working and collaborating in a virtual space

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 Reporthttp://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