There is an interesting paper in the latest issue of ISTL where the author conducted an analysis GS to see whether or not she could find some 840 Ecology articles. The part that stuck out to me is Fig. 1 which numerically lays out how many articles she was able to access from within the library as opposed to how many she was able access from home - check it out: http://www.istl.org/07-winter/refereed.html
The Horizon Report is issued annually by the New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. It tries to predict the future, targeting a few areas of emerging technology that the authors think will be adopted in one of three “adoption horizons” - one year or less, two to three years, or four to five years. Their timelines seem a little conservative for me, especially for the first adoption horizon where they seem to be describing things that are more “current” than “on the horizon.”
Horizon Report for 2007 It’s not that long (32 pages) and broken up by technology so it’s easily scannable and worth checking out. As the ACRL Log has noted, there were no librarians involved in putting the report together, and there probably should be. First Adoption Horizon (one year or less):Second Adoption Horizon (two to three years):
Third Adoption Horizon (four to five years):
Great article in Library Journal on the positive response from students, faculty and librarians from putting librarians in the departments where they become active members of the faculty involved in teaching and research.
I’m breaking my own rule here–and I will put this on the LFA blog too–but this article that Sara Jameson forwarded is too good not to bring your attention to:
Digital Breadcrumbs: Case Studies of Online Research in a recent issue of Kairos http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/11.2/ comes complete with audio and visual files. Really fascinating ethnographic investigation of evolving search strategies among undergrads and grads with some insightful recommendations for where libraries need to go. Similar to many things said elsewhere (e.g., Jeremy’s article; Webster, et al article about Library Find, etc.) but in somewhat more accessible (less technical) language for those of us who need that. Some provocative material to spur discussions of library instruction, information literacy, etc. What exactly should we be teaching in the future?
This short report is an interesting overview of how (online) Americans are tagging information. There’s also some commentary about what this means for information organization and learning. (9 pages long)
http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Tagging.pdf