1. New Identities: Adapting the
Academic Library
Formats of library resources in
Information Literacy Instruction
Karen Quinn-Wisniewski,
Coordinator, Library Electronic Resources
Community College of Baltimore County

2. New Identities: Adapting the
Academic Library
Let’s gripe about the constantly changing
formats of library resources that we need to use and teach students
and let’s see how we can help each other to
save our sanity.
Karen Quinn-Wisniewski,
Coordinator, Library Electronic Resources,
Reference Librarian, Information Literacy Instructor
(and other duties as assigned)

3. The History of Libraries
Physical
 Virtual

4. The History of Finding Information
Before Google
After Google

5. Do you use these
in instruction?

6. Research Databases: which one?

7. Physical and Virtual
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
Encyclopedia Britannica

8. Challenges
• Learning new content and interfaces for each product – we need MORE staff development, but
are often too busy to teach ourselves
• Vendors ‘upgrade’ mid semester
• Serving adult learners or the technological unskilled. The majority of CCBC students are 30 years of
age or older.*
• The minute the technology goes wrong at the front of the class
• When your demonstrated search has unintended results
• With ALL online subscriptions – access! It’s less of a hassle to use Google
• Sometimes Google does a better job understanding keywords and doesn’t need a Boolean search.
Wikipedia is often listed first – is it still a monster? It’s 13yrs old – has the information improved at
all?
*CCBC Annual Student Profile and Trends 2014
http://www.ccbcmd.edu/media/pre/annual_student_profile.pdf

9. ‘Googling’
 Teachers and students alike report that for today’s
students, “research” means “Googling.” As a result,
some teachers report that for their students “doing
research” has shifted from a relatively slow process
of intellectual curiosity and discovery to a fast-paced,
short-term exercise aimed at locating just
enough information to complete an assignment.
Purcell, Kristen, et al. "How Teens Do Research In The Digital World."
Education Digest 6 (2013): 11.

10. Use of “Public Internet” in Papers
Initial data from the Citation Project study
of student use of sources in researched papers
from sixteen US colleges and universities
(released August 2011)
http://citationproject.net/CitationProject-Sixteen_School_Study-Sources_Selected.pdf

11. Social Media as an Information Tool
 Whether its LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or Pinterest,
people are becoming increasingly reliant on their personal network
for information. There are now over 2.8 billion social media profiles,
representing around half of all Internet users worldwide. LinkedIn
now has over 147 million members. Facebook has over 1.1 billion
members and accounts for 20% of all pageviews on the Internet.
Google+ currently has over 90 million users.
Frey, Thomas. “Future Libraries and 17 Forms of Information Replacing Books”
http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2012/03/future-libraries-and-the-17-forms-of-information-replacing-books/

12. Wikipedia?
“Research shows that Wikipedia is often consulted for academic tasks,
usually in the early stages of the research process….”
Kyung-Sun Kim, et al. "Undergraduates' Use Of Social Media As Information
Sources." College & Research Libraries 75.4 (2014): 442-457.
“A random selection of articles was chosen from [two]
encyclopedias to be evaluated by academic experts in their
respective fields. The experts were not told whether the
article they were reviewing came from Wikipedia or from
Encyclopedia Britannica. Their findings show that only eight
serious errors were found, four from each encyclopedia.”
Rand, Angela Doucet. "Mediating At The Student-Wikipedia
Intersection." Journal Of Library Administration
50.7/8 (2010): 923-932.
A number of studies document use of Wikipedia in higher education
learning environments such as classrooms and libraries, both to encourage
participation in contributing and to increase outbound links availability to
authoritative resources.
Ibid.

13. eBooks
 So many different readers/ platforms/ providers and buying models:
DDA, UDA, PDA.

14. CCBC’s eBook Challenges
• Various platforms and learning the differences
• Available access to a specific title. Number of concurrent users is different based on
the type of collection (subscription or owned). Instructors want to assign titles for
required reading have trouble differentiating.
• Difficult to download – it requires an account, specific reader, etc. The whole book?
Only a chapter?
• Dissimilar search algorithms
• It’s hard to be authoritative to students (or faculty) when you say “it’s up to the
publisher” such as the printing page limit.
• Faculty to use a book for this assignment – do they mean print only?

15. Media: which ones?
 Physical and/or streaming?

16. CCBC’s Challenges
• In streaming subscriptions, you don’t own the videos, you ‘rent’ them
• Online subscriptions don’t have all the videos we need
• So we still need to buy the DVD
• We have trouble letting go of outdated formats
• Vendors remove streaming videos based on licensing – they ‘weed’ , not us
• Technical issues: embed/stream on CMS? Work with authentication system?

17. And a discovery service that is
supposed to simplify.
Or does it add one more layer?

18. We create libguides and
you do too. Does it help?
Books ->
Articles ->
Web sites ->
Media ->
Citation Help

19. What students use for research
One in four teens are “cell-mostly” internet users, who say
they mostly go online using their phone and not using some
other device such as a desktop or laptop computer.
Pew Research 2013
http://www.pewinternet.org/2013/03/13/teens-and-technology-2013/

20. The app generation
…there are many wonderful apps, designed to do well, better than most of us could
do on our own, what needs to be done.”
Gardner, Howard, and Katie Davis. The App Generation : How Today's Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, And
Imagination In A Digital World / Howard Gardner And Katie Davis. 2013

21. What’s in the Future?
The Future is Now.

22.  It is not the strongest of the species
that survives, nor the most
intelligent that survives. It is the
one that is most adaptable to change.
---- NOT by Charles Darwin

23.  “Improvise, adapt and overcome.’”
--Old Marine Corp slogan
 http://www.marcorsyscom.marines.mil/News/PressReleaseArticleDisplay/tabid/8007/Article/509497

24. Thanks!
 kqwisniewski@ccbcmd.edu
 https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenqw
 http://libraryguides.ccbcmd.edu/profile/karenqw