Strategic directions

• How will education libraries best serve their communities in 2015

• Judy O’Connell• Course Director (Teacher Librarianship)

School of Information Studies Faculty of Education Charles Sturt University

• juoconnell@csu.edu.au

csu.edu.au/

FACULTY OF EDUCATIONJUDY O’CONNELL

Strategic Directions for School Libraries

SCIS Consultation 4 December 2012

This is our context!

Multi-literate, multi-device curriculum environments Natural user interfaces & game-based learningExpanding ‘services’ & collaborative spaces New information pathways & cloud environmentsAccessible and searchable collectionsCritical thinking and authentic problem solvingSocially networked & collaborative Web 2.0Copyright, creative commons, digital citizenship

.... our augmented environments reality

http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2012-horizon-report-K12.pdfHorizon Report K-12

JUDY O’CONNELL CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY

.... our library services reality

The spaces and places of libraries are physical and virtual, adopting and adapting Web 2.0 media tools to enhance and envelop school learning communities into a series of globally powered learning commons—dynamic, collaborative 21st century library environments!

JUDY O’CONNELL CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY

This is our context!

Semantic Webof knowledge

Semantic Webof intelligence

Web ofinformation

Web of people & social information

Deg

ree o

f In

form

ati

on C

onnect

ivit

yAn introduction to the Semantic Web http://goo.gl/Wudfz

JUDY O’CONNELL CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY

How does search impact the way students think and

the way we organise information access?

cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo by fatboyke (Luc): http://flickr.com/photos/fatboyke/2984569992/

Google creates the illusion of accessibility

http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searcheducationhttp://www.wolframalpha.com/educators/

JUDY O’CONNELL CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY

Whereas traditional library metadata has always been focused on helping humans find and make use

of information, linked data ontologies are focused on helping machines find and make use of information.

linkeddata.org schema.org

On the web – of the web ~ http://kcoyle.net/presentations/lita2011.html

This uri from the Library of Congress http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85042531 has now become the globally available, machine and human readable, reliable source for the description for the subject heading of ‘Elephants’ containing links to its related terms (in a way that both machines and humans can navigate). Open Library is an open,

editable library catalog building towards a web page for every book ever published. Project of the Internet Archive.

http://openlibrary.org/

JUDY O’CONNELL CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY

This is our context! .... our library services reality The catalogue has been a silo but with RDA data can move

beyond bibliographic and authority records

RDA encourages the recording of sufficient data to support more precise collocationRDA emphasizes the importance of relationshipsRDA adds precision to access pointsRDA provides greater internationalisationRDA builds a display of results that conveys meaningful information to the user

This is our context!

Metadata ~ what are the rules of engagement?Schema ~ what about controlled vocabularies?Users ~ what are their access needsInterface ~ how many access points?Data ~ what are the opportunities for user engagement? Media ~ what are the elements of interactivity?Access ~ what can we learn from the semantic web?

.... old questions, new answers

JUDY O’CONNELL CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY

This is our context! .... OPAC as discovery interface

JUDY O’CONNELL CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY

Context aware: Points on the curriculum

Points on the interest continuumCapacity to support learning discovery!

Access aware: Interfaces to support searching and discoverySearch aware: Natural, predictive, responsiveResults aware: Multimodal, multi-depository, relevant, filtered

How do you stack up?

Strategic directions for school libraries!

.... today’s novelty is tomorrow’s norm

JUDY O’CONNELL CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY

Are you prepared?

New skillsNew knowledgeNew metadataNew open accessNew global connectionsNew learning community