Use of Digital Materials: Identifying users

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Information Behaviour of theResearcher of the Futurehttp://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/reppres/gg_final_keynote_11012008.pdf

User’s information behaviour is changing rapidly. According to a global survey by OCLC on undergraduate students:•89 percent of undergraduates use search engines to begin an information search (while only 2 per cent start from a library web site)•93 per cent are satisfied or very satisfied with their overall experience of using a search engine (compared with 84 per cent for a librarian-assisted search)•undergraduates still use the library, but they are using it less (and reading less) since they first began using internet research tools•`books’ are still the primary library brand association for this group, despite massive investment in digital resources, of which students are largely unfamiliar

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Integrity Integration

Instant access

Ingest ofcontent

Interaction

USER

What Users Want? The 10 “In” rules.

Indefinite access

Innovation

Interpretation

Information

Interoperability

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What users want?

1. Integrity: access to digital object as it has been created

2. Integration: different contents and file formats available from a single platform

3. Interoperability: different programmes and operating systems compatible with each other

4. Instant access: access to material, especially from mobile devices

5. Interaction: catalogues that provide Web 2.0 features (blogs, wikis, tags, content sharing, etc)

6. Information: comprehensive metadata for fast and reliable retrieval of content

7. Ingest of content: constant update of new digital content

8. Interpretation: digital content placed in relation to other items in the collection

9. Innovation: material to be presented in innovative ways

10. Indefinite access: digital objects to be preserved for posterity

Some examples of how BL is facilitating access to digital material

Digitised material:

Turning the Pages: http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html

Content:

BL Management and Business Studies Portal: http://www.mbsportal.bl.uk/

Catalogue:

http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/catblhold/all/allcat.html

Archive of digital-born content:

Web Archive: http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/

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