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SLAV Reading Culture: collaborate, create, celebrate

journeys with ebooks Anne Whisken Centre, Carey Baptist Grammar School. SLAV Reading Culture: collaborate, create, celebrate. journeys with ebooks. Carey Baptist Grammar School 2 x primary libraries 1 x secondary library eLearning teams at each campus Mellor Library 7-12

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SLAV Reading Culture: collaborate, create, celebrate

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  1. journeys with ebooks Anne Whisken Centre, Carey Baptist Grammar School SLAVReading Culture: collaborate, create, celebrate

  2. journeys with ebooks 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

  3. journeys with ebooks 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?

  4. 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 journeys with ebooks

  5. 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 journeys with ebooks

  6. 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? 2010 journeys with ebooks

  7. How do we use information for learning? Teachers- to designcurriculum which uses best quality and most relevant information, as discipline content and skills are learned in blended learning environments Students- To experienceuse of best quality and most relevant information for learning in blended learning environments C Bruce, 2008, Informed Learning. 2010 journeys with ebooks

  8. 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 2010 journeys with ebooks

  9. journeys with ebooks • 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) 2010

  10. Research to develop business case for selection and purchase of new system System specifications Library visits Short list Selection of Civica 2010 journeys with ebooks

  11. CIVICA Spyduscatalogue with content areas Sorcerdiscovery layer (faceted navigation & user interactivity) Blis assets management system with federated search and software for 3rd party licence eBooks 2010 journeys with ebooks

  12. 2010 journeys with 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)

  13. !!!!! PS !!!! Elephant in the room !!!!! 2010 journeys with ebooks 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? ‘shift happens’ Lyn Bruce

  14. !!!!! PS !!!! Elephant in the room !!!!! 2010 journeys with ebooks Be the information expert in the spaces where students are learning ‘shift happens’ Lyn Bruce

  15. 2011 journeys with ebooks journeys with ebooks 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?

  16. 2011 journeys with ebooks journeys with ebooks 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

  17. journeys with ebooks journeys with ebooks 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) 2011

  18. journeys with ebooks 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 journeys with ebooks 2011

  19. journeys with ebooks journeys with ebooks 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?) 2011

  20. 2011 journeys with ebooks journeys with ebooks 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.

  21. 2011 journeys with ebooks journeys with ebooks 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 .

  22. 2011 journeys with ebooks journeys with ebooks 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 .

  23. 2011 journeys with ebooks journeys with ebooks 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 .

  24. 2011 journeys with ebooks journeys with ebooks 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

  25. 2011 journeys with ebooks Warner Books: eBooks - Non Fiction Whole school site licence, multiple users journeys with ebooks

  26. 2011 journeys with ebooks Warner Books: eBooks - Non-Fiction journeys with ebooks

  27. 2011 journeys with ebooks journeys with ebooks Booklegger: eBooks Non Fiction & Reference Whole site licence, multiple users

  28. 2011 journeys with ebooks INT Books: Books Non Fiction Trocadero Australian Timelines series Crabtree series Whole school site licence, multiple users Years 5 - 8

  29. 2011 journeys with ebooks journeys with ebooks Warner Books Databases Cyberschool Whole site licence, multiple users

  30. 2011 journeys with ebooks journeys with ebooks Warner Books Databases InfoBase eLearning Modules Whole site licence, multiple users

  31. 2011 journeys with ebooks Gale Databases Restricted users We selected 5 concurrent users

  32. 2011 journeys with ebooks Access Download MAC/SCIS records & link directly to titles from catalogue Set up separate set of links to supplier platforms to enable searches there

  33. 2011 journeys with ebooks 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.

  34. Focus A central search location for quality information On content rather than on device used for access and reading All content should be able to be downloaded to whatever device the students are using Content should be whole site licence for multiple users What learning is taking place as this information is used in this format for this teaching and learning? journeys with ebooks

  35. QUESTIONS? journeys with ebooks

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