[Sometimes management will ask] ‘Can you do this piece of research to try to find out how students are doing x, y, and z and why they’re doing x, y, and z?’ And we’ll go off and do it and then we’ll go back with what we’ve found and it will be very much cherry-picked what they want to implement and what they don’t want to implement.

There aren’t enough laws that regulate the usage of location services in regards to privacy, and I think that they should be enforced.

For example

blogs

Google vs. the Library (Part III): Assessing the Quality of Sources Found by Undergraduates. (2015). Portal: Libraries and the Academy, 15(1), 133-161.

Brooklyn College, Publications and Research.

424-425.

Information Literacy Instruction That Works: A Guide to Teaching by Discipline and Student Population. The Journal of Academic Librarianship

EBSCOhost.

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EBSCOhost. http://homepage.univie.ac.at/juan.gorraiz/Vortrag/ebooksmyth.pdf

“Print sources in an electronic age: A vital part of the research process for undergraduate students.”

Mar2014

Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship

portal: Libraries and the Academy

Booker, Lorne D., et al. “Factors Affecting the Adoption of Online Library Resources by Business Students.” Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, vol. 63, no. 12, Dec. 2012, pp. 2503-2520.

http://remote.baruch.cuny.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=59830120&site=ehost-live

http://remote.baruch.cuny.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lls&AN=502972883&site=ehost-live

http://remote.baruch.cuny.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=48491812&site=ehost-live

http://remote.baruch.cuny.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=89346655&site=ehost-live

http://remote.baruch.cuny.edu/login?url=http://

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Summer2008

Connaway, Lynn S, et al. “Engaging Net Gen Students in Virtual Reference: Reinventing Services to Meet Their Information Behaviors and Communication Preferences.”  American Library Association Journals, May 12-15, 2009, pp. 12-27.,   http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/conferences/confsandpreconfs/national/seattle/papers/10.pdf

This article written by Stefanie Havelka, Jennifer A. King, and Adelaide Soto in Practical Academic Librarianship details a study the authors undertook analyzing and e-book pilot program on CUNY’s Lehman College Campus. The article begins by detailing the explosive growth the ebooks and ereaders saw towards the end of the decade and posing the question of whether or not ebooks and ereaders can be useful in the academic space. The Leonard Lief Library of Lehman College decided to trial the technology by offering e-readers and ebooks to students that would otherwise not be able to use them. The project was split into two phases, the first would be without any subscriptions be provided by the library with the second including a library subscription to Overdrive. The ereaders being provided would not be preloaded with any content as the researchers wanted the students to personalize the content they needed as well as provide the students with an opportunity to become more familiar with the technology. The Sony Reader was chosen at the time of the study because of its increased support for more ebook formats over the Amazon Kindle which better supported the goal of letting students find their own content to load onto the devices. For the creation of their own e-library the researchers decided to use the service Overdrive, purchasing 82 single user licenses focusing on popular and in demand books. The pilot found problems with the e-readers chosen for the program and their circulation rate was extremely low. Other issues such as setting up an Adobe account for because of DRM reasons was found to be tedious and a hindrance to ebook use. The Overdrive service wound up being popular with the selection size almost tripling over the course of the pilot. The pilot concluded with mixed reactions to the e-readers and an increasing popularity for electronic textbooks. It is important to note the age of the study and the technology involved when assessing it. The study was conducting in 2009 with second generation e-readers and the third generation just coming out. During this time period a number of technological advances would wind up making e-readers more user friendly and changing the landscape overall with the introduction of items like the iPad. In addition during this time there would be a strong trend towards moving more content online. This study was a pilot by an early mover in the field and as such the technology is limited.

Havelka, S. s., King, J. A., & Soto, A. (2012). Brave New Library World: Lending e-readers and e-books in an Urban Academic Library. Practical Academic Librarianship: The International Journal Of The SLA, 2(2), 1-17.

Lamagna, M., Hartman-Caverly, S., & Danowitz, E. S. (2015). Integrating e-Books into Academic Libraries: A Literature Review. Internet Reference Services Quarterly, 20(1/2), 19-32.

The technology aspect is very much ignored as there is no mention of any specific ICT that is being study, only a vague concept of electronic readings which is never defined.

Social Informatics Approach

Mizrachi, D. m. (2015). Undergraduates’ Academic Reading Format Preferences and Behaviors. Journal Of Academic Librarianship, 41(3), 301-311.

however demographic information is lacking, we only know that the students were undergraduate students enrolled in a Quantum Mechanics course at the University of St Andrews.

The

Muir, L. l., & Hawes, G. g. (2013). The Case for e-Book Literacy: Undergraduate Students’ Experience with e-Books for Course Work. Journal Of Academic Librarianship, 39(3), 260-274.

Social Informatics Aspects:

Social Informatics aspects:

wants to examine

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web based reference services

peer reviewed article

Yang, and Dalal

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While the authors did mention chat and email services a number of times throughout the article they focused more on the analysis of the overall lack of communication between students and librarians, rather than focusing on the efficiency of the mediums used to communicate, those being chat and email services.  They very adequately addressed how the use of our ICT may have been impacted by social/organizational aspects. They dedicated a part of their interviews and analysis to the assumptions regarding library services and the motivations behind seeking out librarians for help. Ultimately, coming to the conclusion that students are apprehensive to seek out help in their research because they don’t know how librarians/library services can help in ways that are different or more informative than a simple google search or independent research. They didn’t truly explore how differences in users may have contributed to the use of our ICT because they only interviewed 10 people from one college. Therefore, their findings may be representative of college students’ usage of our ICT as a whole, but are limited considering the size of interview pool.

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Methodology:

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hannah.rempel@oregonstate.edu

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1,2, HGeorgas@brooklyn.cuny.edu.

And Bloomberg, an information and news aggregator and provider.

50 minute introduction

students

Whitesell, M., & Helms, M. (2013). Assessing Business Students’ Research Skills for the Capstone Project in the Strategic Management Course. Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship, 18(1), 14-32.

Social Informatics Aspect:

‘Federated search tool’

was made to

“Student searching behavior and the web: the use of academic resources and Google”

Griffiths, Jillian R., and Peter Brophy. “Student searching behavior and the web: use of academic resources and Google.” Library Trends, Spring 2005, p. 539+. Academic OneFile, http://link.galegroup.com.remote.baruch.cuny.edu/apps/doc/A133606290/AONE?u=cuny_baruch&sid=AONE&xid=48e4d37d. Accessed 20 Mar. 2018.

google scholar

The Journal of Academic Librarianship

It had wonderful ICT used, like the survey, undergraduate and graduate students, as well as using coding as questionnaire, maybe my group and I can use this article as an idea, but I do believe they’re should’ve been a further study.

a sampling method as one of their ICT

This literature review

https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/2280/6/strathprints002280.pdf

Abdullah, N. and Gibb, F. (2006), “A survey of e-book awareness and usage amongst students in an academic library”, in Proceedings of International Conference of Multidisciplinary Information Sciences and Technologies , Merida, Spain, pp. 115-119. [Google Scholar]

et al

Jungyeon, E. P., and Cho, S. K.. (2015). Reading experiences influencing the acceptance of e-book devices. The Electronic Library 33(1), 120–135. doi:10.1108/EL- 05-2012-0045.

“Published studies of DDA use indicate that libraries can expect a very small percent of available records to receive any use when they are first added to the collection. Because it can take print books up to 12 years to see their first circulation, the period of discovery for e-books may be similar” (Fry, page 82).

One piece of writing

Though I must say, the author didn’t do a good job on stating the social, institutional, and organizational aspects surrounding the use of the ICT.

ICTs

The methodology that was being used in the article was when author began reviewing other published studies and took under consideration the different methods of monograph used in academic libraries, whether print books have lost their value for library users, and how libraries can assess if and/or when e-books are used more than print.

College & Research Libraries

Blog Post #1

social setting

Electronic versus traditional print textbooks: A comparison study on the influence of university students’ learning

Electronic versus traditional print textbooks: A comparison study on the influence of university students’ learning, Amanda J. Rockinson-Szapkiw – Jennifer Courduff – Kimberly Carter – David Bennett – Computers & Education – 2013

Rashidul Islam-Blog post 4

Battleson

1, j.bates@ulster.ac.uk

persons

ICT’s

As a consequence, the search results can be organized in a manner that favors the beliefs of Google as a corporation

Ironically, I had to use google to figure out what federated searching was

google

When reading this article, I thought of federated searching as using One Search on the Baruch library website

google

The researchers tells us the ICT is the ILT

does

in a higher view

one of which whether

looks

EBSCOhost,

researchers does not

its spread

base

does

library resources.

Methodology

on

were

has

university

EBSCOhost,

Social informatics aspects

does

the hierarchy  of the ICT

Social Informatics: This study is about the “ICT literacy” and “Information literacy” of the undergraduate students being researched. The use of the ICT is the databases that the students used to do their research. The people who are using the ICT is the researchers and the students. The number of students that were studied is 77, it is composed mostly of freshmen. It also includes other statistical calculations of the distribution of participants.  The main organization that was talked about in this study is the University. MU has a course named ISLT (Information Use and Student Success), which helped fuel this study that gives insight on how students do research.

Social Informatics:  The researchers didn’t specifically used the term ICT for their research but their paper gave a clear understanding on the different types of ICT used to explain their point. One of the main ICT that this article used is a database. The databases that were mainly used in this articles is ones that are popular with medical research. The medical databases has papers and journals specifically on medical subjects. The people that used the ICT was the researchers themselves and the undergraduates/provides that uploaded the papers to the databases. It may also include all the people who are doing medical research. The social and organization usage is the researchers and their college that does the studies, it also includes us the readers.

by collect information on these undergraduates

One of the main ICT that was used in this article is the laptop. They allowed half of the sample size to use the laptops to do research on the certain topic. The laptops had a connection to a database, which helped the undergraduate student look for the certain books. All the participants were undergrad students that has a area of interest in science.  There was 9 males and 11 females, and all of them had some knowledge of how to use books/e-books to do research.

is

‘prompted think-aloud methodology and qualitative analysis technique’

are inventing in e-book worth the time and money

E-books

increase

In this study, there not not a use of an ICT to conduct the survey, since it was on paper, however the questions that they surveyed for was about ICTs. They compared the area of study to the aspect of ICTs. This showed how the different interest use the different type reference material to look for their work. The people that was using it was classified into their year(freshmen,sophomore, etc), and their different demographics that was asked on the survey.

how the different interes

defer

Social Informatics Aspects:

Social Informatics Aspects:

The authors explain the organizational, technical, social, and user aspects of the ICT thoroughly

Social Informatics Aspects

goes

Group #2: Blog Post 4

College & Research Libraries

Bates did a subpar job in describing the ICT. She does provide a description of the ICT itself by mentioning the databases and web search engines used for the study and described how each search engine performed. Yet, the author did not mention the people using the ICT. She only mentioned, “two members” when describing the methodology. It would be nice to know the gender, age, academic year, country of birth, etc. For the institutional/social organization, the only division was between the two members performing the study itself. There were no power dynamics expressed, or the norms/values. In conclusion, web search engines were not comparable to bibliographic databases and therefore, web search engines could not replace bibliographic databases.

pp. 8–17.

The Journal of Academic Librarianship

Bates

Helen did not do a great job of describing the ICT used. She stated the number of students, but she lacked to specify the gender, age, year of education, type of major, etc.

To create a bias research for all students

Helen’s

table of the different majors and year of education along with a score next to each to signify the results (from Brooklyn College).

For the norms, she wrote how students tend to use Google instantly because of the quickness and easy to use interface.

detail

the ICT used (the internet)

Helen

1,2, HGeorgas@brooklyn.cuny.edu.

Social Informatics Approach

ione

Social Informatics Approach: The journal article does a decent job describing the ICTs in place for the research. Although all 3 schools administered the ILI in different ways, they all shared a common web based approach, whether it be through guides or online tutorials. But the article failed to mention the specific resources that went into developing the ICT or the overall structure behind the guides/tutorial. On the other hand, the results recorded did a great job of separating the interviewed students by class level. It would’ve been better if the study recorded the ethnic backgrounds of the individuals to see if that held a factor in determining the usefulness of ILI. Besides that, other factors such as learning environment, budgeting, and attitudes of ILI were all taken into account

Suleman Aleem – Group 3 – Source 1 & 2

Teaching Undergraduate Business Students to Access Public Company Information: Assessing Students’ Use of Library Resources

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s

“how to locate, access, and interpret information from a wide variety of information sources.”

summaries

journal

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Studies that measureHuman Computer Interaction (HCI) and user experience are more apt to focus on the negative experience with the interface than the positive.6

(I’m particularly happy about the participation of the librarians.

The code name also suggests that Samsung finally seems to understand the many criticisms that have long been leveled at its phones: the plastic hardware looked cheap, the most promoted features were mostly useless and the software was too complicated.

To suggest that faculty are innocently waiting to be pounced on by predators is to deny their agency and their ability to make choices about their own work. There may be days where that metaphor seems apt, but I think overall this is a damaging mentality to librarians interested in promoting new models of scholarly communication.