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The world’s libraries. Connected. Getting off the Island: Collaborating to Create Boundless Collections October 15, 2013 Presented by Bridging the Gap Encouraging Engagement with Library Services & Technologies Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ph. D., Senior Research Scientist, OCLC in partnership with
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Connaway, L. S. (2013). Bridging the gap: Encouraging engagement with library services & technologies. Presented at Collective Insight “Getting Off the Island: Collaborating to Create Boundless Collections,” October 15, 2013, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California.
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Getting off the Island: Collaborating to Create Boundless CollectionsOctober 15, 2013

Presented by

Bridging the GapEncouraging Engagement with Library Services & Technologies

Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ph. D., Senior Research Scientist, OCLC

in partnership with

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Evolution of User Behavior

• Previously:

• Institutionally-provided resources & technology

• Local infrastructure

• User built workflow around the library

• Currently: • Attention scarce, resources abundant

• Free sources of information

• Outside the institution

(Dempsey 2008)(Dempsey 2012)

#InsightSeries

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Outside-In & Inside-Out: Discovery and Discoverability

• Outside-in

• Acquired books, journals, databases from external systems

• Provided discovery systems for local constituency

• Inside-out

• Now a producer of a range of resources

• Digitized images, special collections, learning & research materials, research data, administrative records

• Promote discoverability of institutional resources

(Dempsey 2012)

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84%of users began information search with a search engine

How many began their search on a library website?

1%This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

(Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of Research 2008)

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25% 13%

Americans who have visited a library website

(past 12 months)

Those who used a handheld device to

access library website

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

“Looking and reading an entire book takes too long when the specific information can be gained online in a matter of minutes.” (US, Age 38) (De Rosa 2005)

(Zickuhr, Rainie and Purcell 2013)

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Current Environment

• Challenges

• Budget cuts

• High retirement rates

• Hiring freezes

• Opportunity

• Best value for most use

• Understand how, why, & under what circumstances individuals use systems & services

• Promote value of library

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Importance of Assessment

“Librarians are increasingly called upon to document and articulate the value of academic and research libraries and their contribution to institutional mission and goals.”

(ACRL Value of Academic Libraries 2010, 6)

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Why Assessment?

• Answers questions:

• What do users/stakeholders want & need?

• How can services/programs better meet needs?

• Is what we do working?

• Could we do better?

• What are problem areas?

• Traditional stats don’t tell whole story

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Assessment Defined

Process of…

• Defining

• Selecting

• Designing

• Collecting

• Analyzing

• Interpreting

• Using information to increase service/program effectiveness

Interpreting

Analyzing

Collecting

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User-centered data collection & assessment

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Surveys

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Example: WorldCat Usability Survey

• Paper or Online (e.g., Survey Monkey)

• Consider order of questions

• Be specific

• Introduce sections

• Keep it simple

• Pre-test!

(Connaway and Wakeling 2012)

21 focus group interviews with:• 61 Librarians • 40 Students• 10 Booksellers• 7 Historians

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IndividualInterviews

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Example: Digital Visitors & Residents Participant Questions

1. Describe the things you enjoy doing with technology and the web each week.

2. Think of the ways you have used technology & the web for your studies. Describe a typical week.

3. Think about the next stage of your education. Tell me what you think this will be like.

(White and Connaway 2011)

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Example: Digital Visitors & Residents Participant Questions

4. Think of a time when you had a situation where you needed answers or solutions and you did a quick search and made do with it. You knew there were other sources but you decided not to use them. Please include sources such as friends, family, teachers, coaches, etc.

5. Have there been times when you were told to use a library or virtual learning environment (or learning platform), & used other source(s) instead?

6. If you had a magic wand, what would your ideal way of getting information be? How would you go about using the systems and services? When? Where? How?

(Connaway and Radford 2005-2007)(Dervin, Connaway and Prabha 2003-2005)

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Focus Group Interviews

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Example: Focus Group Interviews

Uses

• Resource discovery

• Determining location of items

• Academic / professional

Strengths

• Global scope

• Content > functionality

• Interface = positive

• Discrepancy between students and librarians

How & why do users employ

?Challenges

• Search functionality

• Duplicate records & lack of a work-level

• “Find a copy” functioned poorly outside US

• Dead links

• Marketing WorldCat

(Connaway and Wakeling 2012)

#InsightSeries

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Diaries

#InsightSeries

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Example: Digital Visitors and Residents Diaries

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Findings

#InsightSeries

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Sources are overwhelmingly digital

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• Visit only a few minutes

• Shorter sessions

• Basic search

• View few pages

E-journals

(Wong, Stelmaszewska, Bhimani, Barn and Barn 2009)

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Online resources• 99.5% use journals as

primary resource

• Google, Web of Science, PubMed, Science Direct, JSTOR

(Research Information Network 2006)

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• Power browsing

• Scan small chunks of information

• View first few pages

• No real reading

• Squirreling

• Short basic searches

• Download content for later use

• Differ with discipline

Information-Seeking Behavior

(Research Information Network 2006)(Consortium of University Research Libraries, and Research

Information Network 2007)(Connaway and Dickey 2010)

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The word “librarian” only mentioned once in original interviews by Emerging Stage participants as a source of information

One participant referred to “a lady in the library who helps you find things” (USU5, Male, Age 19, Systems Engineering)

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Mobile Access

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Databases• Electronic databases

not perceived as library sources

• Frustration locating & accessing full-text copies

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Social Media

Need to be present & available in spaces where users live or dwell

(Connaway, Lanclos , and Hood 2013)

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“I get on Twitter a whole bunch. It’s Twitter or Facebook are what I usually use the most to talk to my friends.” (USS1, Female, Age 17, High School Student)

#InsightSeries

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Can’t live without…

“I think my phone….I just – it’s just the easiest way to keep in contact with people. And also with phones these days it’s like a mini computer to be honest, Smartphones so yes.” (UKS7, Female, Age 17, Secondary School Student)

#InsightSeries

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Course Management Systems vs. the Open Web

Open web outnumbers CMS (Connaway, Lanclos, and Hood 2013)

“I felt that they used limited resources and did not research the topic other than using the internet. I can do an effective Google search myself and come up with the same resources.” (UOS-65381, Female, Age Range 56-65)

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“It’s like a taboo I guess with all teachers, they just all say – you know, when they explain the paper they

always say, ‘Don’t use Wikipedia.’” (USU7, Female, Age 19, Political Science)

The Learning Black Market

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Reliability

• Concerned with selecting reliable sources

• Websites that end in .edu, .ac., or .gov

• Appearance of site determines reliability

• Repetition is measure of reliability

Evaluation, Authority, and Legitimacy

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“It depends, it depends who’s made the website or what I have been told about the website or whether I know

about it at all. But it sounds silly but sometimes you can just tell whether a website looks reliable or not

depending on how professional that looks and who’s written it.”

(UKU6, Female, Age 19, History)

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Convenience

(Connaway, Lanclos, and Hood 2013)

Convenience trumps all other reasons for selecting and using a source

#InsightSeries

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Recommendations

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• Anticipate/ understand the user’s needs

• Search filters

• Customize range of time

• Search from mobile phone

• “Smart prefix search”

Smart Searching

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Convenient and Familiar Interface Designs

#InsightSeries

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• Available 24/7

• Digital & face-to-face communities are critical

• Social media tools can be used to build relationships

• Engage in interesting discussions & inventive strategies for making collections come to life using social media

Embedding & Engaging in the Individuals’ Networks

(Connaway, Lanclos , and Hood 2013)

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• Social networks formed around social objects

• Music, photos, videos, links

• Reviewing

• Tagging

• Commenting

• Rating

Community is Content

(Dempsey 2012)

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“By focusing on relationship building instead of service excellence, organizations can uncover new needs and be in position to make a stronger impact.” (Matthews 2012)

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Questions?

Lynn Silipigni Connaway, [email protected]

@LConnaway