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Connecting the Dots: How Researchers Use Their Library’s News Resources

Connecting the Dots: How Researchers Use Their Library’s News Resources. Debora Cheney, The Larry and Ellen Foster Communications Librarian   and Head, The News and Microforms Library The University Libraries The Pennsylvania State University. News Resources at Penn State.

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Connecting the Dots: How Researchers Use Their Library’s News Resources

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  1. Connecting the Dots: How Researchers Use Their Library’s News Resources Debora Cheney, The Larry and Ellen Foster Communications Librarian   and Head, The News and Microforms LibraryThe University LibrariesThe Pennsylvania State University

  2. News Resources at Penn State • Microfilm and print newspapers • 3 Aggregator Databases • LexisNexis • ProQuest • Newsbank • 6 Historical Newspaper Databases • 3 Specialized Databases • PressDisplay (E-Newspaper)

  3. Individual data points A Variety of Data “dots”

  4. Areas Evaluated: Penn State News Sources

  5. “Old Brand” Use Compared – Aggregator Databases, 2009

  6. Most Frequently Viewed?Relative Usage by Aggregator, 2009Documents Viewed The New York Times Pennsylvania Newspapers LexisNexis 0% ProQuest 4% Newsbank 45% Centre Daily Times 4% 26 titles 16% of total • LexisNexis 90% • ProQuest 24% • Newsbank 13% • 25% of total • Plus: • The New York Times • Digital Archive 41%

  7. Use of International Sources: Newsbank, 2009

  8. International Titles: Newsbank 2009 • Times of India, The (Mumbai, India) • Chinadaily.com.cn • Toronto Star, The (Ontario, Canada) • Daily Star, The (Beirut, Lebanon) • Economist, The (London, England) • China Daily (Beijing) • Guardian Unlimited (England) • Sydney Morning Herald, The (Australia) • Financial Times (London, England)

  9. Percent of Historical News Content Use Compared to Aggregator Databases, 2006 - 2009

  10. Newspaper Requests from Inter-Library Loan (ILL), 2004 - 2008

  11. Video, Blogs, and Web Content, Oh My!

  12. Newspaper Use Online and In Room, 2009

  13. Top Newspapers: 2009 PressDisplay News & Microforms Library Asahi Shimbun El Pais Times of India Dong-a Ilbo Le Monde Daily Telegraph Estado de Sao Paulo Times (London) Corrieredella Sera Izvestiia Jerusalem Post • Le Figaro • Liberation • The Guardian • Times of India (Mumbai) • Star (Malaysia) • National Post (Canada) • Jerusalem Post • Les Echos • Aujourd'hui en France • China Daily

  14. How efficient are researchers?Ratio of Searches to Documents viewed. 2009 By Database By Category Aggregators 3 Specialized 8 Historical 1 • LexisNexis 1 • ProQuest 7 • Newsbank 1

  15. Cross-Disciplinary Databases and use of newspapers? Searches Documents Viewed ProQuest, 35% Newsbank 31% LexisNexis 34% • ProQuest: ~84% • Newsbank: 8% • LexisNexis: 8% 2009 data

  16. Summary: Major trends in use of library news resources

  17. Larger Trends Connecting the Dots

  18. Use by Category, 2009 • Aggregator Databases: 61% • Specialized Databases: 21% • Historical Databases: 18%

  19. Database Use by Category, 2006 - 2009

  20. Percentage Change, 2006-2009Documents Viewed, of total By Category By Aggregator LexisNexis - 8% Newsbank +22% ProQuest -14% • Aggregator Databases -24% • Specialized Databases +17% • Historical Databases + 6%

  21. Where we stand

  22. Questions, Comments, Suggestions? • Debora Cheney, The Larry and Ellen Foster Communications Librarian • Head, The News and Microforms Library • The University Libraries • The Pennsylvania State University • Pennsylvania, USA • dcheney@psu.edu

  23. What impacts news content use Post-Script

  24. A Changing Definition of “News”

  25. Trends: Youth news consumption

  26. Trends: News distribution

  27. Trends: Youth Research Behaviors

  28. Libraries and News Content Possibly Too Tied to the Concept of the “newspaper”

  29. Challenges for Libraries

  30. News: a “digital wilderness” • Re-think how we position news content and news resources into the research, teaching, learning context of academic research

  31. Re-establish the library as a the place for news-based research • Better understand news researchers (faculty & students) • Make library’s news resources more visible and find-able • Establish clearly how library news resources differ from web-sources for news

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