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On Copyright policy

There has been an issue concerning copyright policy and e-books around the world..
How will that problem get solved?
Read here what Jonathan Band says:

On October 28, 2008, Google, the Authors Guild, and the Association of
American Publishers announced the settlement of the litigation concerning the Google
Library Project (http://books.google.com/booksrightsholders/agreementcontents.
html). Under the project, Google has been scanning into its search database
millions of books provided by major research libraries and other sources. For those
books not in the public domain, the publishers and authors claimed that Google’s
scanning infringed their copyrights. The settlement still requires the approval of the
presiding judge in the US district court in New York because the case was brought as a
class action on behalf of all affected rightsholders.
The settlement presents significant challenges and opportunities to libraries.
This paper does not explore the policy issues raised by the settlement. Rather, it outlines
the settlement’s provisions, with special emphasis on the provisions that apply directly
to libraries. The settlement is extremely complex (over 200 pages long, including
attachments), so this paper of necessity simplifies many of its details. This paper should
not be treated as legal advice, and libraries considering joining the settlement should
retain counsel to advise them on the settlement’s intricacies. Read more here

Breaking news

Eighteenth Century Collections Online is the single most ambitious digitization project ever undertaken. It delivers every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.

The American Revolution. The French Revolution. The Industrial Revolution. The Eighteenth Century saw what many scholars believe to be the three most significant events in world history. The most ambitious digitization project ever undertaken, Eighteenth Century Collections Onlinevividly brings this period to life with materials ranging from books and directories to Bibles, sheet music, sermons and advertisements.

• Part I contains 26 million pages of text from more than 136,000 titles (155,000 volumes)
• Part II contains nearly 50,000 new titles of previously unavailable or inaccessible materials
• Full-text search capabilities
• Well-known and lesser-known authors
• Canonical titles of the period as well as contemporary works that analyze and debate those titles"

Wanna have a digital library in your handbag?

If you like books but think that they are a little heavy to carry around you should try a digital reading device. We thought so and are experimenting with it now. The university library of Trondheim is promoting reading devices with e-books and e-articles form the reading lists of Archaeology spring semester 2010. The project is the first attempt to use e-books actively and read them in the devices of inc-technology. A Phd candidate has got the possibility to use the amazon kindle for 2 weeks to see whether he would be happy with such a service from our library! A master student will try to use that as a service next week. Their comments will be submitted to this blog soon. By January 2010 it will be possible for 10 students from 2 different subjects to participate for a pilot project in trying out the devices and give us feedback. The academic editor Tapir is involved in the project as well.
More about that to come!

Do Libraries Cater for Today's Researchers and Research Students?

Apparently not...

A recent story in the Times Higher reviews an interim report from "[a] three-year study by the British Library, Researchers of Tomorrow, [which] is tracking the research behaviour of doctoral students born between 1982 and 1994 - dubbed 'Generation Y'" (Next-gen PhDs fail to find Web 2.0's 'on-switch', via Peter Morgan/@tweeterpeter) describes how researcher are making use of 'emerging technology' tools. The THES describes how interim results:

... show that only a small proportion of those surveyed are using technology such as virtual-research environments, social bookmarking, data and text mining, wikis, blogs and RSS-feed alerts in their work. This contrasts with the fact that many respondents professed to finding technological tools valuable.

Just under half of those polled used RSS feeds and only about 10 per cent used social bookmarking, with Generation Y students exhibiting the same behaviour as other age groups.

les mer her

Kindle arrived in Europe.

The last two weeks have been especially busy for the e-book reader industry (and probably pretty frightening for Amazon). Here’s a quick round-up of what’s been released and what we have to look forward to this holiday season:

1. Barnes & Noble Nook: The Nook has gained the most buzz lately, especially after some of the e-reader’s details were released by the Wall Street Journal the night before. With a price tag set at $260, some e-book lending abilities and running on the Google Android OS, BN.com’s Nook will surely provide some competition to Amazon. Furthermore, users will have availability to more than one million e-books online, twice that of what is available on Amazon.com. Also, after a bit of confusion over where exactly the Nook could access Wi-Fi (previously thought only in B&N stores after a mistake at a press conference last week), the Nook can work on Wi-Fi networks in stores and at home for downloading books.

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Oktober 2009 Information Literacy awareness month

President Obama has declared October 2009 to be National Information Literacy Awareness Month. His official proclamation states:

“An informed and educated citizenry is essential to the functioning of our modern democratic society, and I encourage educational and community institutions across the country to help Americans find and evaluate the information they seek, in all its forms.”

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A partneship possible to come:

Hybrid Libraries: Advanced Systems and Services for accessing virtual and physical information space
Read more about the project

from the Ionian University

I samarbeid med Kalvskinnet skole planlegger vi en historisk dag ved skolen med utstillingen som inspirasjonskilde for elevene! Se på nettutstillingen.

Have you heard about handheld books? This resource guides educators through the process of selecting the hardware and software for students to use handheld computers necessary to listen to eBooks, to research Websites, and to use videos and audio books. ... for students (NETS- S) -- The national educational technology standards for teachers (NETS-T) -- The educational technology standards for administrators -- Information literacy standards -- Summary and challenge -- Selecting hardware for ebooks, eaudio, ...

Rethinking

Information R/evolution

Current Issues

Google Book Search: search across books like you search across the internet. We’ve scanned 10 million books and are just getting started. We have books in most of the languages Google is in; work directly with publishers. 1.5 million are public domain books. Old but valuable. The Library Project: a couple partner libraries include in-copyright books: scanned and indexed, but only show snippet. About 20% of books in these libraries are public domain, 75% out of print, and 5% in-copyright and in-print.read more in rebeccas blogg

“What Do I Do with the Data Now?”: read more in pdf here

Analyzing Assessment Information for Accountability and Improvement

Suzanne L. Pieper
Northern Arizona University
Keston H. Fulcher
Christopher Newport University
Donna L. Sundre and T. Dary Erwin
James Madison University

Abstract
Most colleges and universities have implemented an assessment program of some
kind in an effort to respond to calls for accountability from stakeholders as well as to continuously improve student learning on their campuses. While institutions administer assessment instruments to students and receive reports, many campuses do not reap the maximum benefits from their assessment efforts. Oftentimes, this is because the data have not been analyzed in a way that answers questions that are important to the institution or other stakeholders. This paper describes four useful analytical strategies that focus on the following key educational research questions: 1) Differences: Do students learn or develop more if they participate in a course or program compared to other students who did not participate?; 2) Relationships: What is the relationship between student assessment outcomes
and relevant program indicators (e.g., course grades, peer ratings)?; 3) Change: Do students change over time?; and 4) Competency: Do students meet our expectations? Each of these strategies is described, followed by a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of each method. These strategies can be effectively adapted to the needs of most institutions.

Assessment Resources - Podcasts- Examinee Motivation
http://www.jmu.edu/assessment/resources/podcasts/podcasts1.htm

Dialog: Integrating information literacy into the academic curriculum.

Project coordinator
First name Alexandra
Last name Angeletaki
Address Kalvskinnsgt. 1B
Email address alexandra.angeletaki@ub.ntnu.no

A.3 Participants involved in project
Institution First name Last name Gender Degree Position
University of Alberta Nancy Goebel Female
Norwegian University of Science and Technology Vidar Gynnild Male
University of Texas at Austin Michele Ostrow Female

History and background

2008: The NTNU University library of Trondheim has initiated interdisciplinary project cooperation since 2008 with the Programme for teacher education, (PLU), in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Technology Management and the Institute of Archaeology and Religious studies (IAR), the Faculty of Arts, in integrating information literacy and assessment strategies in university curriculum programs. All three departments are under the same university. The aim of the project is to develop an information literacy program as a cross-campus enterprise with a wider ownership. The project is called “Dialog” (http://gunnerus-utln.blogspot.com/) and has almost completed its first phase of seminars and courses at the level of bachelors and masters. The courses have been designed collaboratively and 100 students have participated in it. The final aim of the project is to transform bibliographic instruction programs into an open collaboration program in order to design courses and assessment tools for teaching information literacy. The project has been supervised by the Library director of the NTNU library Lisbeth Tangen and Prof. Vidar Gynnild from the faculty of Social Sciences and Technology.

2009: Since January 2009 the project has established an international network of partners in order to develop an integration and assessment strategy of Information and Computer technology (ICT) courses based on the experience of other Universities. The network will enable librarians and university teachers to contribute with experience, successes and challenges on how to meet the complexities involved in delivering ICT instruction to university students. The network has an expanded focus on the possibility of transferring knowledge on assessment strategies established through ICT courses that have been designed, conducted and evaluated by other universities recently. This kind of practice will be a paradigm-shift for NTNU where faculty and library cooperation is established on the basis of collaborative university programs. Thus the action plan of “Dialog” is to create an academic forum of cooperation with the contribution of the assessment research group of the Canadian Universities under the International program “Info-lit” National Forum on Information Literacy, (through Augustana library) in a survey about librarians on their use/misuse/disuse of information literacy instruction assessment data.

2010: NTNU is planning a workshop at Trondheim, September 2010 for librarians, subject teachers and PHD students in Information literacy integration and assessment strategies in Trondheim. The main partner for the workshop is the " Programme of Teacher education at NTNU, which specializes in the following areas:

1. Teacher Education
2. Higher Education
3. The University's Resource Centre for Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology

The University Library and The PLU are currently discussing the possibility of developing a cooperative program of education in the area of Higher Education.
Thus is the University of Alberta Canada (Nancy Goebel) is invited to hold a workshop for the organizers of the above mentioned program.

Goals for cooperation

• Promoting information literacy in University environments nationally and internationally.

• Exchange international experience and develop competence in integrating strategies.

• Establishing international cooperation for developing digital assistance through open access recourses in order to enhances academic literacy and research competence in universities.
• Developing international partnerships and academic collaboration of professionals on information literacy that can be used by university teachers, librarians and students



September 2010-Workshop: A workshop is intended to be organized by the NTNU library and University library of Alberta (Nancy Goebel, Head Librarian/Human Rights Advisor, Augustana Campus,University of Alberta) in Canada for library and faculty staff in September 2010. The purpose of the workshop is to establish an international inter-disciplinary forum and discuss the didactic challenges of teaching Information Literacy in institutions of higher education. The outcome of the workshop is to design courses for master’s students with ICT learning goals embedded in the courses that will then be implemented by the participants of the workshop into their current assignment of semester teaching. The courses will be for master’s and PhD degree level and will be assisted by the coordinator and the supervisors of the “Dialog” project. The outcome of the implementation phase will then be evaluated by the program of University education of NTNU.

B.2.4 Cooperation plans and institutional strategy
By 2020 NTNU should be Internationally Outstanding and the strategies to achieve such an aim are stated below:

1. Strengthen recruitment and network building with other educational institutions, industry and society
2. Develop more education given in English especially at Master’s and PhD levels and implement measures to market this
4. Create an eminent learning environment in close cooperation with student organizations and the Student Welfare Organization
5. Coordinate and develop a comprehensive learning environment for quality in university education
6. Develop structures that promote interdisciplinary teaching and cooperation in supervision

The NTNU library as stated in its Institutional strategy-plan supports NTNU as an active collaborator in the area of Information and Communication technology ( ICT) and provides the resources required to reach its aims and goals as an Institution of Higher education of academic quality and promote research production and proficiency.

The library in order to achieve closer collaboration on the subject of Information literacy has established already in 2008 a cooperation with (PLU) Faculty of Social Sciences and The Institute of Archaeology and Religious studies (IAR) under the Faculty of Philosophy and History. A pilot-project of workshops was monitored by the cooperation board in order to be able to involve faculty members in designing ICT courses and evaluating them.

Currently (May 2009) the NTNU library and PLU are planning together seminars for new faculty employees on course development that enhance Information literacy and technology skills which will involve representatives from most of the NTNU faculties.
B.3 Relevant experience
B.3.1 Relevant experience
The project coordinator has been involved in teaching programs, has international background since she has studied in USA, Greece, Spain and Norway. She has experience with national and international collaborations. She has done interdisciplinary work the last 2 years at the academic library of NTNU, has designed and conducted many library instruction programs.
She has received the Athens scholarship in 1995 and Da-Vinci scholarship in 2003.

She will present a paper on the qualitative and quantitative analysis of an ICT pilot-project in QQML(http://www.isast.org/), which is an international conference in Crete 25th of May 2009, organized by ASMDA International Society organizing conferences on data analysis from 1981.

She is working for the board of Subjects librarians (Matrise) for the NTNU library of Trondheim developing education strategies on an institutional level and organizing seminars and workshops.
She is representing the NTNU library on the committee board organizing the International conference in Bergen 2010 : Creating Knowledge:

Dialog

DIALOG et tverrfaglig forskningsprosjekt

Pilotprosjekt: Ressursbasert læring ved universitetet, et studium i
bruk av informasjonstjenester og bibliotekets støttefunksjon ved NTNU.


Prosjektansvarlig: Alexandra Angeletaki

Samarbeidspartnere :

* Universitetsbiblioteket, Gunnerusbiblioteket
* Seksjon for universitetspedagogikk, PLU, NTNU
* HF fakultetet Institutt for arkeologi og religionsvitenskap,IAR
* It's Learning: NTNUs læringsplattform

Veiledere:

1. Vidar Gynnild, førsteamanuensis ved Seksjon for universitetspedagogikk,NTNU

2. Lise B.Jørgensen, professor ved Institutt for Arkeologi og Religionsvitenskap IAR, NTNU

Formål: Pilotprosjektet utforsker via en tverrfaglig prosjektgruppe hvilke typer undervisning og didaktiske modeller som kan bidra til å bygge opp en søkeferdighet på akademisk nivå og utvikle den kritiske evalueringsevnen av digital informasjonen som er nødvendig for humanistiske fag. Det bidrar også til å utvikle tverrfaglighet i samarbeidet med fagmiljøene på NTNU, og mulige måter IKT kompetansen til de ansatte kan styrkes.

Arbeidsmetode: Prosjektet vil problematisere, gjennom praktisk undervisning, rundt det spørsmålet om NTNU har behov for å utvikle nye lærings- og undervisningsmetoder i digitalkompetanse for å kunne møte dagens digitale utfordring. Gunnerusbiblioteket er initiativtaker til prosjektet og koordinator. Pilotprosjektet kjøres i samarbeid med faglærere og studenter ved Institutt for arkeologi og religionsvitenskap. For å kunne møte de didaktiske og pedagogiske utfordringene, har initiativtakeren etablert samarbeid med PLU, som skal veilede hele prosjektet. It`s Learning er den aktuelle læringsplattorm til NTNU og den skal bidra med forsøkvis implementering av sin plagieringsdatabase.

Fase 1: Dialog

Gunnerusbiblioteket- seminarer for akeologistudenter

2008-2009:

* Gunnerusbiblioteket organiserer informasjonskompetansekurs i samarbeid med Institutt for Arkeologi og Religion, PLU og It`s Learning.Prosjektet er et pilotstudium i å integrere bibliotekkurs i aktuell fagundervisning.

* Kurset er basert på en serie av bibliotekseminarer for arkeologistudenter hvor de lærer å lokalisere og bruke bibliotekets ressurser i semesteroppgaver.
* Seminarene er basert på PBL læring og studentene driver med biblioteksøk i løpet av 4 forskjellige 2 timers seminarer under praktisk veiledning.
* Kunnskapene til deltagerne testes før og etter kurset og det hele evalueres på slutten via spørreundersøkelser og gruppesamtaler.
* Studentene er bedt om å reflektere over sine egne søkeprosesser i jobben de skal utføre.
* Refleksjoner ble presentert i et åpent seminar for arkeologistudenter og resultatene skal evalueres gjennom intervjuer på slutten av semesteret.
* Pilotprosjektet avsluttes Juni 2009 med en evalueringsrapport.

Samarbeidsprosjektet forsettes våren 2009.

Fase 2 :El Dia

2009-2010: Tverfaglig arbeidsgruppe etableres og midlene søkes.

* Prosjektet vil i det første halve året starte med å drøfte temaet, utforme læringsmålene, utrede framdriftsplanen. Det etableres et pilotmodell til en interaktiv e-veiledningsplattform.
* Andre halvåret kurses deltagerne (5 PHD stipendiater ved NTNU) av en faglærer og en bibliotekar. Deltagernes kunnskaper testes før kurset, og kurset blir justert etter deres nivå.
* De jobber med konkrete faglige problemstillinger og blir veiledet via en digital læringsplattform og ved praktiske øvelser i en pc-lab. De reflekterer over sine egne læringsprosesser ved webbaserte loggføringer. Deltagerne har 4 fellessamlinger, og en muntlig presentasjon til slutt og alt blir filmet.

* Tredje halvåret tar deltagerne i bruk veiledningsplattformen i undervisning og inkorporer veiledning i informasjonskompetanse for deres aktuelle undervisningsoppgaver. Hele prosessen evalueres av alle deltagere gjennom samtale, observasjon fra starten av.
* Fjerde semester avslutter prosjektgruppen sitt virke med å analysere og evaluere innsamlede data i en avsluttende rapport som presenteres digitalt ved samme interaktive e-plattform for hele NTNU, og tjenesten markedsføres som et videreutdannings tilbud for ansatte ved NTNU og andre fagmiljøer.
* Prosjektet evalueres eksternt og e-plattformen gjøres tilgjengelig på nettet, for andre universiteter og utdanningsinstitusjoner.

Tidsplan

våren 2008:Bibliotekseminarer for ARK 1111

Våren 2009 : Bibliotekseminarer for ARK 2214

Mai 2009: Evalueringsmøte med IAR og PLU.
Samarbeidstiltak

It`s Learning utprøver plagieringskontrollen på pilotprosjektet før den åpenes for hele NTNU.

Viko i samarbeid med "Dialog" legge ut lenker på it`s Learning for sine testmoduler som kan kopieres.

Pedup programmet har fått forespørsel om å integrere et lignenede pilot i sin undervisning.
Nyheter

Prosjektet presenteres iQQML 2009 konferanse i Mai.

NY TIDSKRIFT

Nordic Journal of Information Literacy (NORIL). Det er gratis tilgjengelig (OA) for deg og hele verden på http://noril.uib.no

Mvh. Anne Sissel Vedvik Tonning På vegne av redaktørene i NORIL"

Første nr inneholder bl.a. en sammenligning mellom Google Scholar og Web of Science.

Forsknings sier at:

En artikkel som sammeligner søketreff på Google scholar og andre databaser konkludere med at:

A searcher who is unwilling to search multiple databases or o adopt a
sophisticated search strategy is likely to achieve better than average recall and precision by using Google Scholar
Google Scholar.

Studentene sier at:

Spill og vi!

For ei uke siden var jeg med på en konferanse i Trondheim organisert av Institutt for historie og klassiske fag. Konferansen var internasjonal og veldig spennende. Forskjellige prosjekter ble presentert der spill ble brukt til å undervise klassiske fag.

Ideen var veldig interessant men jeg dro fra konferansen med et spørsmål; er det noen kvaliteter eller egenskaper som kan utvikles hos de som bruker mye tid på spill som fører til økt læring? Kan spill brukes til å formidle kunnskap til de som ellers ikke skulle være lett å få tak i, en stor gruppe mennesker med ulik bakgrunn, utdanning eller alder som er interessert i spill og trives med det.

Kan biblioteket bruke denne arenaen til et slik forsøk? Noen dager seinere sender min RSS feed for informasjonskompetanse følgende. Den amerikanske bibliotekforeningen har allerede utviklet en verktøykasse for bibliotekarer som ønsker å bruke spill som en arena for utvikling av informasjonkompetanse!

les fra deres webside ::http://librarygamingtoolkit.org/

What is the Connection Between Literacy and Gaming?

More about the gaming and literacy connection can be found on the Literacy 101 page, and each model program has literacy components as well.

As new technologies, tools and toys have burgeoned over the last 20 years so has our understanding of what constitutes literacy. Libraries of all types have provided collections, programs and services in support of these traditional literacy skills for centuries. Today, concepts of literacy include digital, information and communication technology (ICT), media, programming, and visual.

Reading and understanding information is still vital, but so is evaluating and thinking critically in the multiple literacies just listed.

Libraries of all types promote the development of these literacy skills in numerous ways: information literacy classes in colleges and universities, gaming programs to promote problem solving and the development of higher order thinking skills, and services that improve technical and literary fluency. Regardless of the type of service libraries may provide, they are all important in strengthening these multiple literacies. Gaming in its various forms presents an additional service that supports and strengthens these literacies.

Nytt fra Gunnerus

Gunnerusbiblioteket høstsemester 2009

1. Vi har fått digital tilgang til ”Antiquity” fra første nummer. Men da må dere inn på fanen som kalles archive, videre velger dere pdf-filen for å kunne printe ut en artikkel. Prøv denne lenken http://antiquity.ac.uk/archive.html
2. Vi skal ha endnote kurs for masters-studenter og forskere i uke 5 for dem som er interessert. Sender email med info om det seinere.
3. Nye muligheter via Bibsys Ask for å kunne søke videre på samme emneord eller tittel i større databaser som worldcat og google scholar, slik de små ikonene i nederste feltet viser.
4. På google-boksøk er det mange nye titler som er kommet og det er lett å lage sitt eget bibliotek. Hvis dere trenger veiledning send meg bare en email så avtaler vi tid og jeg kan komme til deres kontor. Sjekk eksempelet her: http://books.google.com/books?q=label:%22archaeology%22&uid=9343604423739790695&rview=1
5. Vi har fått ny webside for spesialsamlingene og holder på med å digitalisere mange av de viktigste manuskriptene og bøkene som skal kunne være tilgjengelig for alle via Bibsys Ask når prosjektet er fullført.
6. Tidskriftene fra nord og sentral Europa ligger nå i sin helhet i bokhyllene ved skranken mens de internasjonale tidskrifter kan hentes fra gangen bak skranken.
7. Vi har et tilbud til PhD-studenter eller forskere som ønsker å få være med på et kurs i litteratursøk, forskningsetikk og referansehåndtering for stipendiater ved HF og SVT våren 2009. Se vedlegget eller klikke følgende lenke: http://www.ntnu.no/ub/kurs