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In a shifting academic landscape, research can suffer when it is viewed as a commodity and is not accompanied by a sense of curiosity and exploration. Anna-Sophia Zingarelli-Sweet, respected HASTAC Scholar from the University of Pittsburgh, will discuss motivations and strategies for reinvigorating a thoughtful, joyful research process. Following Anna-Sophia, ProQuest product managers will highlight ways to further engage users, improve research, and streamline workflows through new enhancements to Summon, Flow, and 360 Link.TRANSCRIPT
Creativity, Discovery, and Research in the Library:
Supporting “Screwing Around”
Transforming Libraries, Transforming Research27 June 2014
Anna-Sophia Zingarelli-Sweet@aszingarelli
overview
• research and the MLIS student• “The Hermeneutics of Screwing Around”• three ways to reintroduce curiosity and
creativity– conceptualize browsing– build serendipity into research methods– support robust collaboration
research and the MLIS student
research methods requiredin about half of MLIS programs (Park 2003)
we enter the field with a feelingthat research is overwhelming
and that we have little to offer researchersexcept a list of databases and search tips
digital scholarship
“use of digital evidence and method,digital authoring,
digital curation and preservation,and digital use and reuse of
scholarship”
(Smith Rumsey 2011)
fromdigital knowledge
todigital knowing
Stephen Ramsay
“The Hermeneutics of Screwing Around;Or,
What Do You Do With A Million Books?”
http://www.playingwithhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/hermeneutics.pdf
that much information…exceeds our ability to create reliable
guides to it
two ways to handle information overload:
searchbrowsing
we think of the computer as a deviceThat has revolutionized search…
could we imagine a world in which“Here is an ordered list of the books
you should read”gives way to
“Here is what I found. What did you find?”
digital reading
Nina Clements,“Is Browsing Too Slow For Today’s
Users?”http://www.ebrowsing.org/blog/2014/4/1/is-browsing-too-slow-for-todays-
users
physical browsing takes time
students still crave a tactile approach
Is the digital necessarily opposedto the tactile, to browsing,
and to slowing down?
If “the medium is the message”then it matters how we conceptualize
and deploy digital media.
Anne Mangen
“Hypertext Fiction Reading:Haptics and Immersion”
Journal of Research in Reading 31:4 (2008)doi 10.1111/j.1467-9817.2008.00380.x
Columbia University Libraries
Serendip-o-matic
Feminist Scholars Digital Workshop