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“This Just in…”: How Students Use Library News Resources

“This Just in…”: How Students Use Library 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.

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“This Just in…”: How Students Use Library News Resources

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  1. “This Just in…”: How Students Use Library News Resources Debora Cheney, The Larry and Ellen Foster Communications Librarian   and Head, The News and Microforms LibraryThe University LibrariesThe Pennsylvania State University News Literacy and Preservation: Finding, Using, and Losing the News, ACRL-EBSS Program. American Library Association, Wash. D.C. June 26, 2010

  2. An Presentation Overview …

  3. Students and the News

  4. Today… • “[News] is becoming less of a destination that we seek online. Instead we are expecting it to come to us in a social stream.”— • ”[Anthony Rotolo, quoted in “World’s Largest Social Network: The Open Web,” The New York Times, 5/16/2010]

  5. The Recommender Model vs. The Search Engine Model • For many students their • “Spheres of influence”(Recommenders) and the “familiar” are become more important than SEARCHING

  6. The Recommender Model in the Research Context:

  7. Students and The Library’s News Sources

  8. What they use…

  9. How they search…

  10. What are they searching for…

  11. They expect an App and we give them…

  12. Re-establish the library as a the place for news content

  13. Debora Cheney, Foster Communications Librarian and Head, News and Microforms > Library, Penn State University Libraries, • Some data is available as part of “Connecting the Dots: How Researchers Use Their Library’s News Resources” available: IFLA International Newspaper Conference, 2010 (Delhi, India). Digital Preservation and Access to News and Views: Conference Papers, edited by Ramesh C. Gaur, et al., pp. 68-89. (Available at: http://www.ignca.nic.in/ifla2010/IFLA_PDF/IFLA_conf_papers.pdf) .

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