Online sources for literacy research: Library/researcher perspective

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Online sources for literacy researchLibrary/rese
archer perspective

• Bertram (Chip) Bruce
• Library Information Science
• U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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How is literacy (research) changing?

• What are the new media for literacy?
• How do people find information?
• How are teaching and learning changing?

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1) A free and simple computer link (Mosaic)

• Think of it as a map to the buried treasures of
  the Information Age. / A new software program
  available free to companies and individuals is
  helping even novice computer users find their way
  around the global Internet / an applications
  program so different and so obviously useful that
  it can create a new industry from scratch.
• Dec. 8, 1993, John Markoff, New York Times

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In the future already

• Science fiction itself has remained the same. We
  have caught up to it...We are a science-fiction
  generation.
• Ray
  Bradbury
• We cant think far enough ahead anymore.
• Ron
  Shusett

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Human-computer interaction(a history)
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New digital tools
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Computer-mediated work
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Ubiquitous computing
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New media

• web rings
• video conferencing
• digital libraries
• virtual reality
• the deep web
• wireless

• internet radio
• robot surgery
• telepresence
• ubiquitous computing
• simputer
• monkey cursor

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2) How do people find information?

• go to personal collection
• ask colleague
• send e-mail
• go to web
• go to library

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Do we need

• Books? Journals? Publishers?
• Libraries? Librarians?
• Schools? Teachers?
• Universities? Professors?

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Library technologies

• XML metadata and linking standards
• Open Archives Initiative (OAI) --metadata
  harvesting protocols
• Digital object identifier (DOI) -- a unique
  identifier of a piece of digital content The
  ISBN for the 21st Century --Norman Paskin

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Digital library

• Digital, Virtual, Electronic Library as
  network-based library without regard to place and
  time
• applies to collections and resources
• integration of collections and services
• standards and protocols
• National Science, Math and Technology Education
  Digital Library (NSDL)

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Publishing trends

• publishers add value to online journal articles
• digital version becomes version of record
• virtual journals become common
• personalized services -- agent technology
• new economic and subscription models
• article-at-a-time publishing
• journal or publisher branding

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Academia issues

• publishing, e.g., Astronomy Digital Image Library
• promotion tenure
• collaboration
• teaching
• definition of knowledge

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3) How are teaching and learning changing?

• solve problems gt find problems
• textbook gt multiple sources/media
• follow directions gt active learning
• work alone gt collaborate diverse views
• cover the curriculum gt learn how to learn

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A cycle The Inquiry Page

• Resources for inquiry teaching learning
• Support for communities
• Tools for everyday problem-solving (personal
  websites, to-do lists, events calendars, )

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Repository model
contribution via web form
URL of stored entry
database of entries
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Stone soup (Robins, 1999)
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Collaboratory model
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Collaboratory in context
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Changing concepts of community
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Parkland CC Library
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Library

• a collection organized for use gt
• a system to support community inquiry