Texas State Summer Workshop

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Research Technologies Working Collaboratively
With Faculty
Texas State Summer Workshop Teaching with
Technology Library Presentation August 11, 2004
Dr. Clara Ogbaa Head of Reference Instructional
Services, Alkek Library
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Some Continued Issues of Discussion

• What types of technologies are available?
• Instructional technologies
• Research technologies
• How do I access these technologies?
• How is it going to affect my teaching?
• Who is going to teach me/my students how to use
  them?

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Our Roles

• Teaching Faculty
• Know information flow in own field
• Know subject
• Librarians
• Know how to access information regardless of
  subject field
• Know research
• IT Staff
• Know I.T.how-to and when-to
• New Roles emerging roles some old, some new
• New Expectations

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The Impact of Technology
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A New Higher Education Environment
Technology
Learning
Teaching
Research
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Research Technologies

• Discipline specific technologies
• Library databases and other online resources
• Statistical software and other specialty software
  for book/article publications, thesis and
  dissertations

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Challenge of New Information Environment

• More Complex
• More Choices
• Dozens of interfaces
• Duplication of Content
• Computer skills
• Conceptual Skills
• Technical skills
• Evaluation skills

Finding useful, quality information efficiently
Preparing self-directed, lifelong learners
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Technology Student Learning

• Needs are changing
• Traditional students
• Non-traditional students
• More home Internet access
• ALL students
• Often unrealistic in self-assessment of skill

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Technology in the Library

• Rapid pace of technological change
• A time to evaluate our decisions in the past 5 or
  10 years
• A time to change our thinking about our
  traditional students
• Nearly every aspect of librarianship is affected
  reference services, collection development,
  library use instruction, interlibrary loan,
  acquisitions, and cataloging.

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Standing Working Together
This is about Student Learning not
about Technology
Faculty Librarians IT
and working for success in information
technology for student learning
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What We All Want

• Information literate students with lifelong
  results and ability to
• deal with the world of information
• transfer knowledge from system to system
• be confident in using information
• develop good research habits
• incorporate relevant portions into their papers,
  presentations, and other research products
  appropriately and ethically

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The Librarys Key Role

• Is to redefine its role in the new education
  environment by providing
• more electronic resources
• more services to support access
• marketing The M word
• Out of the library to where the students are and
  into the classrooms
• partnering with academic departments
• flexible physical space for learning

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Our Collection Alkek Library

• General Collection
• 1.3 million volumes
• Government Documents
• Federal State
• Special Collections
• Juvenile Collection
• State Adopted Textbooks
• Southwest Writers Collection
• Wittliff Gallery

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Library Services for Faculty

• Electronic Reserves
• Get your requests in early!
• Borrowing Privileges
• Interlibrary Loan
• New system ILLIAD
• Collection Development - Library Liaisons
• Information Literacy Instruction Program

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Interlibrary Loan

• ILL Office located in the Reference Dept office.
• Hours 800 AM 500 PM, M-F
• No charge normally
• For Document Delivery- new system ILLIAD
  http//illiad.library.swt.edu/ILLiad/
• Use ILLIAD via the Library Home Page

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New Services Coming this Fall Semester

• Virtual Reference Ask a librarian Live
• Live chat with a reference librarian from home or
  office M-F 9-5, Sat 1-5, Sun 2-6.
  www.askalibrarian.library.txstate.edu
• e.g. http//vrlplus.cb.docutek.com/txstate/
• Library Newsletter Bookmarks The Alkek Library
  News
• Honor Code Information Plagiarism Writing
  Style Guide www.library.txstate.edu/ref/bi/style.a
  sp

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Digital Resources

• The Alkek Library Homepage - http//www.library.tx
  state.edu/
• Online Catalog contains over 1 million volumes
  with 5,000 current journal subscriptions
• Databases - over 100 periodical databases and
  some reference databases
• E-Journals
• E-Books - over 22,000
• CD-ROM Network contains 7 databases

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Information Literacy Instruction

• Library Tours
• On-line instruction/tutorials
• Subject guides
• Faculty Requested Instruction
• Individualized Instruction
• Research Consultation

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Of Interest to Faculty .New Databases
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• Columbia International Affairs Online
• Columbia International Affairs Online
  (CIAO) is a comprehensive source for theory and
  research in international affairs. It publishes a
  wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that
  includes working papers from university research
  institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs,
  foundation-funded research projects, proceedings
  from conferences, books, journals and policy
  briefs.
• Communication Mass Media Complete
• CMMC incorporates CommSearch (formerly
  produced by the National Communication
  Association) and Mass Media Articles Index
  (formerly produced by Penn State) along with
  numerous other journals to create a research and
  reference resource of unprecedented scope and
  depth in the communication and mass media fields.
  Covers over 300 journals, and full text for
  nearly 200 journals.

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• Dissertation Abstracts International / Digital
  Dissertations
• The database includes bibliographic
  citations for materials ranging from 1861 to the
  present. Citations for dissertations published
  from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts
  written by the author. Citations for master's
  theses from 1988 forward include 150-word
  abstracts. Titles published since 1997 are
  available for download in PDF digital format.
  Available via the Library web.
• ESRI Business Information Solutions
• Create reports and maps that display
  demographic profiles, market segmentation and
  consumer spending and lifestyles information.
  Chose from over 200 demographic data variables
  for current-year and five-year projections that
  can be quickly and easily accessed and retrieved,
  visualized in map and graphic form and analyzed
  in many types of marketing applications such as
  customer profiling, territory analysis,
  competitor analysis and site evaluation and
  selection analysis. Available only in the
  Government Documents area of the Alkek Library
  4th floor.

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• Kluwer Online Journals
• Texas State has access to approximately 400
  scholarly and scientific tiltles online from
  Kluwer. You can see a list of titles available to
  Texas State on the Library E Journals page.
• FAOSTAT Online Database
• FAOSTAT is an on-line and multilingual
  database currently containing over 3 million
  time-series records covering international
  statistics in the following areas Production ,
  Trade , Food Balance Sheets , Producer Prices ,
  Forestry Trade Flow , Land Use and Irrigation ,
  Forest Products , Fishery Products , Population ,
  Fertilizer and Pesticides , Agricultural
  Machinery , Food Aid Shipments , Exports by
  Destination Produced by WAICENT World
  Agricultural Information Centre, Food
  Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
  (FAO) .
• Grant Select
• GrantSelect, the online version of the
  GRANTS Database, complied and edited by The Oryx
  Press, contains over 10,000 funding opportunities
  provided by more than 4,000 sponsoring
  organizations. Funding opportunities range from
  pure research grants to arts programs, biomedical
  and health care research, community services
  programs, children and youth programs, and K-12
  education funding.

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• ICPSR
• The Inter-university Consortium for
  Political and Social Research (ICPSR),
  established in 1962, is an integral part of the
  infrastructure of social science research. ICPSR
  maintains and provides access to a vast archive
  of social science data for research and
  instruction, and offers training in quantitative
  methods to facilitate effective data use.
• LinkSource
• Not a database, but a service that will make
  your research much easier. When you find an
  interesting looking article that doesnt have the
  full text available in the database, you can
  click on the LinkSource search for full-text link
  and it will check to see if the article is
  available in a different database and give you a
  link to the article. Ask a librarian for more
  details or questions.

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