Gary Hardy

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CRIG Info Lit Grim Reaper Seminar

• Gary Hardy
• ghardy_at_swin.edu.au

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Things that worry me about IL

• Terminology
• Statistics and evaluation
• Assumptions
• Lack of agreement in the profession about IL
• Resourcing, priorities and return on effort
• What the users are telling us

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What are we talking about ?

• Information Literacy
• Life long learning
• Face to face
• Extended sessions
• Generic principles
• They should know this

• Contextual skills
• Just in time
• Online, embedded
• Small chunks
• Specific tools
• They want to know that

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Statistics

• Average for Victorian CAUL respondents of 14,913
  persons in face to face presentations made as
  part of formal bibliographic instruction programs
  and through other planned class presentations,
  orientation sessions and tours.
• Average total students at Victorian CAUL
  institutions 46,197

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Statistics two conclusions

• We arent getting anywhere near interacting with
  the bulk of our audience with the face to face IL
  endeavour.
• The way we are collecting and sharing these very
  basic statistics is not very illuminating.

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Self-Serve 1
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Selfserve 2
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Materials Availability

• 1063 respondents
• 91.2 obtained the item they wanted
• Of the 8.8 of items not found 22 not in
  catalog 15 item not on shelf 15 item on hold
  or loan 12.5 not on home campus 3.8 have
  print but user wants electronic 7.6 other
  system issues
• User factors user skill? gt10 - ie less than
  1 of total

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Do we need to check the underlying assumptions
about search?

• Implicit assumption that the students need
  Librarians to show them how to search?

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What others are doing Students/sessions CAUL 2007
1 University of Notre Dame (2005 - ) 1.5263
2 University of Queensland 1.3274
3 University of the Sunshine Coast (1998 - ) 1.0139
4 Bond University 0.9923
5 University of Western Australia 0.9270

43 University of Southern Queensland 0.2003
44 Charles Sturt University 0.1583
45 University of Ballarat 0.1464
46 Macquarie University 0.1082
47 University of New South Wales 0.0359
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What the users are telling us.
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