New ways of communicating with researchers

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New ways of communicating with researchers

• Heather Dawson, LSE Library

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The new challenges.

• Changing student population
• Growth of internet
• Rising demand for different types of multimedia
  materials

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What can we do?

• Build on our traditional strengths but
• Adapt and innovate the role of the information
  worker
• Adapt and innovate the mode of our communication.
• To the new technology.

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New roles Data.

• Data provision.
• LSE dedicated library service
• Individual data surgeries.
• Web site at http//www.lse.ac.uk/library/datlib/D
  efault.htm

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New roles Online learning

• Skills programme redeveloped to include online
  tutorials
• Work with the centre of Learning technology to
  develop webct tutorials.
• CLT website at http//clt.lse.ac.uk/

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Issues

• Name of the course
• Integration with other academic materials
• Promotion
• Functionality can we make materials more
  interactive?

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Changing communication

• Need to contact users working remotely
• In 24/7 environment
• How can we compete with Google?

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Intute innovations

• Online Blogs to update users.
• Podcasts
• My Account features (alerts, tagging)

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Issues with blogging

• Time management
• Choosing the type of language. Tone length of
  description.
• Issues arising from ephemeral nature.
• Should the forums be interactive?.

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Social networking.

• Harnessing web 2.0 technology.
• Tagging

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Issues

• What should we tag?
• Choice of language. How can you control it?
• Can you order the list?

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Future trends

• Images.
• Virtual worlds
• Mashups
• Useful example from Aridane
• http//www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue50/miller/

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Ask Lilian
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Where to get more information

• The library website http//www.lse.ac.uk/library
• Heather Dawson h.dawson_at_lse.ac.uk