De Gruyter Saur IFLA Research Paper Award 2011

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De Gruyter Saur / IFLA Research Paper Award 2011

This is an annual award for the best research paper on a topic of importance to publishing and access to information.

This year's topic is "Use and Users of Digital Libraries"

with subthemes:

access to digital information
user behaviour in digital libraries
improving interactivity in digital libraries using web 2.0 technologies
reaching out to the wider community through digital libraries

The award is aimed at encouraging research and publication by those relatively new to the profession. Those with no more than eight years of professional experience in library and information services are eligible.

Thinking about Gemini and intersections of user behavior and interactivity, ideas for points/themes to cover in the paper:

The initial modifications made to adapt the platform for biblio needs -- Bianca, do you still have the notes you took when we first talked about this??
response to "request a title"
- - lipscombb Jan 6, 2011 I'm working on a Gemini issues year in review which could help here and in other places.
the need for it --the problems with wikis and email; also serves to fill major gaps in selection and deduplication workflow, QA, metadata correction etc.
- - lipscombb Jan 6, 2011 For me, this is the real meat of the paper especially when you consider our workflow needs and just how crucial Gemini is for normalizing the various layers (individual, institutional, consortial, global) of our BHL workflow
how it works in general
email alerts
the "one stop shopping" advantage/collaborative tool
keeping in touch with users - emails to users

Suggested order:
Key Theme: User behavior in digital libraries [keep web 2.0 lingo "in the water" throughout the paper to support "improving interactivity in digital libraries using web 2.0 technologies"]

[Bianca] Brief introduction to Gemini/themes: problem statement, alignement with theme of paper, outline of paper
[Bianca] need for use of Gemini (talk about need for one-stop collaboration as improving interactivity; user behavior in wanting to submit feedback and offer suggestions)
- This one covers both need for it, with wikis and email talk, and "one stop shopping" advantage
- Gemini as system to satisfy gap in overall workflow, without which we could not "close the loop"

[Erin & Grace] how it works in general & modifications for use in libraryland - how we modified what was already in use by tech people in BHL - lipscombb Jan 6, 2011 I think these sections should be combined (we should make sure to say something about how Gemini goes beyond virtual reference for us - we could touch on our discussions with Gil about this) Here we can also discuss the different roles.
- modifications made, particularly adding request a title - here we can focus on request a title and the response to it (user behavior - desire to request titles to add)
- Maybe here we can briefly discuss the environmental scan we did to determine if Gemini was right for us, and the upgrade, in addition to the requests
[Becky] streamlining communications: how tool informs other workflows
- internal: email alerts (their importance for improving interactivity)
- external: keeping in touch with users - emails to users (user behavior/improving interactivity)
[Becky] closing remarks about perhaps what we want to use it for in the future/what implications it has for access to digital information/user behavior and improving interactivity

Master Editor [Grace]
Who can keep us on task, with due dates and such [Erin]
1st DRAFT & Review due Jan 31
2nd DRAFT & Review due Feb 16 @ 1pm EST
[Erin & Grace to edit]
[Bianca & Becky to submit intro and conclusion]
Final DRAFT due Feb 23 @ 11am EST
[Final edits to be made]
Circulate to group March 1
DUE: March 31 -- Erin to turn it in

Email Pages for Specific Parts:
Why We Need It
How We Changed It
How it Works
How it Fits into Workflow

- ErinThomas Feb 1, 2011 Bits to consider, where does it fit?
*Internal issue creation and management
*Going to BHL, the language of place
*open source, free contribution for All

title suggestions:
"Heeding the Call: User Feedback and the Digital Library"

Well, it doesn't denote place, BUT
it does suggest the wild. wildlife. wild users.

First lines can emphasize the variety of feedback--a (bio) diverse range as it were. ending on the question: How can we best manage the variety of requests BHL receives?"
..Something like that?