Transcript SLAV Reading Culture: collaborate, create, celebrate

SLAV
Reading Culture: collaborate,
create, celebrate
Carey Baptist Grammar School
2 x primary libraries
1 x secondary library
eLearning teams at each campus
Mellor Library 7-12
1300 students in MS and SS structure
1:1 laptop school
3 Teacher Librarians
2 Librarians
2 Library Technicians
1 Library Assistant
2010 - how do we prepare our systems
environment for digital assets & blended
learning?
2011 – what eBooks & eResources are best
for teaching & learning at our school?
2010
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
What information
architecture do we
need for a blended
learning environment
and digital assets
management?
What learning
management
system do we need
for good teaching
and learning?
2010
What sort of library
system will take us
into a future of
increasingly online
resources?
What information
resources provide for
best teaching and
learning?
2010
What library system
will provide for
faceted navigation,
federated searching,
user accounts,
interactivity,
engaging resource
presentation?
How do we manage
digital resource
acquisition, access,
digital rights?
What’s with this
eBook thing?
How do we use information for learning?
Teachers - to design curriculum which uses best
quality and most relevant information, as
discipline content and skills are learned in
blended learning environments
Students - To experience use of best quality and
most relevant information for learning in blended
learning environments
C Bruce, 2008, Informed Learning.
How do we provide best quality
information for learning?
Information system which
• provides sophisticated management, indexing,
searching, usage and reporting of resources in
hard copy and electronic formats
• enables high level user interaction with the
sources – such as user accounts, Apps, RSS
etc – and develops to match evolving
technologies
What systems supply best quality information
for learning?
Integrated library system which
• searches across the full variety of information
formats and platforms to bring the results into
one space (federated search)
• provides for a faceted view of the results so
user can easily select the most suitable
resource (faceted navigation)
• manages access to formats which have
restrictions such as 3rd party licenses (eBook
loans)
Research to develop
business case for
selection and
purchase of new
system
System specifications
Library visits
Short list
Selection of Civica
CIVICA
Spydus catalogue with content areas
Sorcer discovery layer (faceted navigation &
user interactivity)
Blis assets management system with
federated search and software for 3rd party
licence eBooks
CAREY
INFORMATION AND LEARNING ARCHITECTURE
ENTRY: CareyLink Portal (Sharepoint)
LEARNING: ClassE Learning Management System
(Blackboard)
INFORMATION RESOURCES: Spydus/Sorcer/Blis
(Civica)
VIDEO MANAGEMENT: Digital Video Library (Clickview)
DATA RECORDS: Synergetic (Database)
What about
the books on the shelves? >> Not much use?
the library and staff? >> Not much use?
Where do students get information? How good is it?
How do we get to where they are learning and using
information?
Can we change? To what? How?
Be the information expert in the spaces
where students are learning
eRESOURCES
eBOOKS: Fiction, Textbooks, Non-Fiction,
Reference?
ONLINE DATABASES: Subscription, journals and
newspapers, video, books, radio, transcripts?
WEBSITES: Subscription and Free?
WEB 2.O: blogs, wikis & other stuff - educational
usefulness?
eBook Action Learning Team
Teacher Librarians & Teachers
Four action cycles over the year of:
research, plan, action, report
Actions
Australian content
eBooks for IB resourcing
Student opinion
eBook Action Learning Team: Actions
Consulted suppliers:
• Booklegger (non-fiction & reference),
• Campion (Text books),
• Wheelers (fiction)
• Warner Books (non-fiction, reference,
databases)
• EBSCO (non-fiction, reference, databases)
• GALE (non-fiction, reference, databases)
eBook Action Learning Team: Actions
Looked at publisher offerings:
Oxford, Cambridge, Nelson, Jacaranda, McMillan
Ability to mark up literature texts (Google docs,
ReadCloud, iPad)
How to manage acquisitions, access
Federated searching
eBook Action Learning Team: Actions
Question:
What makes eBooks and Databases successful?
Answer:
same as hard copy books – active use and
promotion by teachers
Exciting:
ability to link from context of online course to
chapter in eBook! (link made by TL?)
Three types of eBooks
Fiction , Textbooks, Non-Fiction/Reference
Fiction
preference by students for physical books over
eBooks.
eBooks free and cheap but often comes with
advertising (free Google books).
Single licence use presents problem for libraries.
Three types of eBooks
Textbooks
Book & CD
Book & CD & access code to support website
Book & CD & access code to support website &
App
each publisher creating own format – e.g. pdf,
ePub, Adobe Creative Suite
trying to overcome hacking and copying to get a
return on investment
Three types of eBooks
Non-Fiction and Reference
Pdf most common format (ePub & Adobe
Creative Suite growing)
Web-based platforms give most powerful
delivery - can still download as pdf if wish.
Reader screen that enables colour and
movement to be appreciated
Note difference between eBooks and online
databases and online learning databases
eBooks
Location
• website, server, download to individual device
Licensed
• for one user at a time (DRM loans software)
• site licence for multiple users/ limited number
of users
.
Decisions
Fiction
Leave to 2012 – have software to manage one
user usage licence
Textbooks
Leave to departments – some using book & CD &
website user access
Non-Fiction & Reference
Big orders with Warner, Booklegger, Gale, INT
books
Warner Books: eBooks - Non Fiction
Whole school site licence, multiple users
Facts On File Science and Technology eBook
Collection
Brief History series
Encyclopedia of War Crimes & Genocide
Handbook to Life Series
Encyclopedia of World War II
Global Issues Series
Famous Fashion Designers
Global Connections
Creation of the Modern Middle East
World Religions
Warner Books: eBooks - Non-Fiction
Science Foundations
The Solar System
The Prehistoric Earth
The Human Body
Fashions of a Decade
Costume and Fashion Source Books
A History of Fashion and Costume
The sixties in America (3 vol) (UXL)
Encyclopedia of Diseases and Disorders
Encyclopedia of Biomes
Lifelines in World History
The Ancient World
The Modern World
Culture Wars
Booklegger: eBooks
Non Fiction & Reference
Human Diseases and Conditions
History behind the headlines
Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders
3rd ed
Encyclopedia of Modern Asia
Cold War Reference Library
The Encyclopedia of the Cold War
Cold War a student encyclopedia
Food in Context
Whole site licence, multiple users
INT Books: Books
Non Fiction
• Trocadero Australian Timelines series
• Crabtree series
Whole school site licence, multiple users
Years 5 - 8
Warner Books Databases
Cyberschool
Whole site licence, multiple users
Bloom’s Literary Reference Online
Health Reference Centre
Modern World History Online
Science Online
World Religions Online
Warner Books Databases
InfoBase eLearning Modules
Whole site licence, multiple users
Biomes
Energy and the Environment
Genes and Disease Online
Genetics and Evolution Online
Global Exploration Online
Gale Databases
Restricted users
We selected 5 concurrent users
World History in Context
Global Issues in Context
Green R
Science in Context
World History in Context
Access
Download MAC/SCIS records & link
directly to titles from catalogue
Set up separate set of links to supplier
platforms to enable searches there
Searching
Spydus: enter search term > Blis
federated search across databases &
results aggregated > faceted results
displayed in Sorcer
Link to supplier platform and search
across content of titles bought by school.
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Focus
A central search location for quality information
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On content rather than on device used for access and
reading
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All content should be able to be downloaded to
whatever device the students are using
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Content should be whole site licence for multiple users
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What learning is taking place as this information is used
in this format for this teaching and learning?
QUESTIONS?