Isla Kuhn JIBS User Group Resource Discovery event February 2013
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The document discusses the transition from traditional library research instruction to instruction focused on using the Summon discovery tool. It describes how pre-Summon classes focused on teaching students to search individual library databases to find specific sources, while post-Summon classes teach students how to critically evaluate search results and engage with different scholarly formats uncovered through a single search. The document also notes the debate around whether users should have to learn library systems or if systems should be intuitive to use.
Isla Kuhn JIBS User Group Resource Discovery event February 2013
- 1. Cambridge University Library Summon – a game of 2 halves Emma Coonan, Research Skills & Development Librarian Cambridge University Library Isla Kuhn, Deputy & Reader Services Librarian Cambridge University Medical Library
- 2. Cambridge University Library From ‘finding’ to ‘decoding’: a Summon before-and-after snapshot Emma Coonan, Research Skills & Development Librarian Cambridge University Library
- 3. Before and after Summon 2011: ‘How to find things on your reading list’ 2012: ‘How to decode your reading list’
- 4. The „reading list‟ session • First step in modular Research Skills provision • Target audience: o students in directed learning phase o newcomers to Cambridge library system • Essay writing rather than extended research • Tracking down known items, not discovering ‘unknown unknowns’
- 5. 2011: „How to find things ...‟ Aims • To discover how to decipher your reading list • To learn how to find incomplete references • To find out where to search for what • To save yourself time and energy in getting to the sources you need ‘Phrenology’ by dylan17, flickr.com CC BY-NC 2.0
- 6. 2011: „How to find things ...‟
- 7. 2012: „How to decode ...‟ Learning outcomes • understand reading list structure and purpose • know how to critically evaluate a reading list • understand the various material formats • recognise and reconstruct incomplete references
- 8. 2011: „Where to search for what‟ handout
- 9. 2012: Guide to major scholarly formats
- 10. 2011: System does not match user expectations Tip: if you‟re being asked to read a chapter, you need to look up the book title on LibrarySearch Davidson, D., ‘Locating literary language,’ in Literary Theory after Davidson, ed. Reed Way Dasenbrock (University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1993)
- 11. 2012: Engaging with the found material Beware of “white rabbits” - ideas and arguments that lead away from your topic • Maintain your critical distance from the text • Keep asking: how does this contribute to my understanding/my argument/my essay/my research?
- 12. Cambridge University Library Summon – the other side of the coin Isla Kuhn, Deputy & Reader Services Librarian Cambridge University Medical Library
- 13. Dave‟s Law users should not have to become mini-librarians in order to use the library http://www.daveyp.com/blog/archives/1800
- 14. But in the words of Ben Goldacre….. "I think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that…" http://www.badscience.net/2008/12/i-think-youll-find-its-a-bit-more- complicated -than-that-and-other-excellent-christmas-gifts/
- 16. Advice to rest in bed versus advice to stay active for acute low-back pain and sciatica. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD007612.pub2/abstract
- 17. 1. clinical trial.pt. 24. or/13-23 46. exp Bed Rest/ 2. randomized.ab,ti. 25. exp Spine/ 47. bed rest.mp. 3. placebo.ab,ti. 26. discitis.ab,ti. 48. or/39-47 4. dt.fs. 27. exp Spinal Diseases/ 49. 24 or 38 5. randomly.ab,ti. 28. (disc adj degeneration).ab,ti. 50. 12 and 49 6. trial.ab,ti. 29. (disc adj prolapse).ab,ti. 51. 48 and 50 7. groups.ab,ti. 30. (disc adj herniation).ab,ti. 8. or/1-7 31. spinal fusion.sh. 9. Animals/ 32. spinal neoplasms.sh. 10. Humans/ 33. (facet adj joints).ab,ti. 11. 9 not (9 and 10) 34. intervertebral disk.sh. 12. 8 not 11 35. postlaminectomy.ab,ti. 13. dorsalgia.ab,ti. 36. arachnoiditis.ab,ti. 14. exp Back Pain/ 37. (failed adj back).ab,ti. 15. exp Low Back Pain/ 38. or/25-37 16. backache.ab,ti. 39. exp activities of daily living/ 17. (lumbar adj pain).ab,ti. 40. activities of daily living.tw. 18. coccyx.ab,ti. 41. day to day activ$.ti,ab. 19. coccydynia.ab,ti. 42. daily activit$.ti,ab. 20. exp Sciatica/ 43. ordinary activit$.ti,ab. 21. sciatica.ab,ti. 44. normal activit$.ti,ab. 22. spondylosis.ab,ti. 45. stay$ active.ti,ab. 23. lumbago.ab,ti.
- 18. Horses for courses? Postgraduate vs Undergraduate Known Knowns (eg reading lists) vs Unknown Knowns (eg self-directed research) Just enough vs Everything But……
- 19. PUBMED MATHSCINET GEOref JSTOR CINAHL FACTIVA SCOPUS ARTstor ERIC LEXIS NEXIS SUMMON
- 20. Thank you Isla Kuhn Cambridge University Medical Library [email protected] / @ilk21 www.slideshare.net/ilk21/jibs-2013-summon Emma Coonan (in absentia) Cambridge University Library [email protected] / @LibGoddess www.slideshare.net/LibrarianGoddess/before-and-after-summon