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This Week in LIS - 15 May 2009

Submitted by bartch02 on May 15, 2009 - 5:26pm
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Headline of the Week: Information Tools in Use at Luther

19F88986-0610-4763-8EB0-045D9F25CD22.jpgLast week, we published a look at services provided by LIS to the Luther community as ranked in order of importance by faculty, students, and staff. This week, we turn to a snapshot of how a variety of information tools are used by the community. As part of the MISO survey administered earlier this year, respondents were asked to identify which tools they use in their academic work (faculty and students) or work for the college (staff). The resulting data gives us a picture of the tools most widely used (separated from importance). It also informs on the level of comfort with and penetration of a wide variety of services and tools.

Generally speaking, use of information tools is up sharply at Luther over the past two years, with only a few items seeing decreases in use. And among those that did decline are services that LIS is intentionally guiding the community away from (e.g. online course reserves in favor of KATIE, or Videotapes in favor of DVDs).

Data is reported independently for each constituency and is ranked in descending order of use based on the 2009 survey.

FacultyStudentsStaff
Tool20072009Tool20072009Tool20072009
KATIE68%81%KATIE94%96%Portable Drives (USB)32%52%
DVDsN/A67%Online Quizzes35%62%Digital Images33%45%
Student Library Research48%55%Portable Drives (USB)51%56%Instant Messaging10%42%
Technology-Enhanced Lectures38%54%Physical Course Reserves59%48%Burn CDs37%40%
Physical Course Reserves50%52%Online Course Reserves66%47%KATIE28%36%
Portable Drives (USB)38%51%In-Class Computer Use42%42%Digital Video16%33%
Burn CDs52%49%Technology-Enhanced Presentations29%35%Web Page Development30%33%
Digital Video29%47%Digital Video15%31%Technology-Enhanced Presentations20%31%
Digital Images29%41%DVDsN/A30%Burn DVDs21%29%
Technology-Enhanced Student Presentations29%40%Slides15%28%Digital Audio15%28%
In-Class Computer Use32%36%Wikis13%26%Survey Tools11%22%
Digital Audio29%35%Digital Images17%24%Portable Media Devices (iPods)6%17%
Videotapes42%35%Paper Course Packs15%21%Slides12%17%
Online Course Reserves32%30%Digital Audio17%20%Text MessagingN/A16%
Library Research Instruction29%27%Blogs9%19%Video RecordingN/A16%
Burn DVDs24%24%Burn CDs30%18%Videotapes15%16%
Discipline-Specific Software19%23%Discussion Boards19%17%Blogs4%14%
Video RecordingN/A18%Instant Messaging16%17%Videoconferencing9%13%
Technology Instruction9%17%Portable Media Devices (iPods)11%17%Discussion Boards8%12%
Online Quizzes11%15%Electronic Portfolios7%16%Podcasting3%7%
Slides20%15%Text MessagingN/A15%Animations4%6%
Paper Course Packs15%13%Survey Tools5%13%Wikis2%5%
Blogs6%12%Burn DVDs10%11%RSS Feeds0%2%
Instant Messaging3%12%Videotapes16%11%Simulations0%2%
Simluations10%12%Disciple-Specific Software11%11%
Portable Media Devices (iPods)4%12%Classroom Electronic Polling5%9%
Animations12%11%Web Page Development12%8%
Discussion Boards11%9%Podcasting2%6%
Student Electronic Portfolios4%8%Animations5%6%
Survey Tools4%8%Simulations5%6%
Wikis5%6%Smart Phone/PDAN/A3%
Podcasting2%5%Videoconferencing1%3%
RSS Feeds1%5%RSS Feeds1%3%
Web Page DevelopmentN/A4%
Text MessagingN/A4%
Videoconferencing1%3%
Electronic Polling4%2%
Smart Phone/PDAN/A2%

It is rewarding to see use of information tools generally rising across the College. It is also a challenge to continue to support the rapidly rising need for support of these (and many other) information tools supported by LIS at Luther. Not only does the population grow each year using most information tools, but the number of information tools itself continues to grow. We appreciate the many partnerships we have with our constituents across campus as we work to better position Luther’s infrastructure supporting information resources and tools to meet the mission and goals of Luther.

LIS Staffing News

LIS has launched a recruitment for a Programmer/Analyst. We have completed on-campus finalist interviews.

LIS Blog Highlights from the Week

The following articles are sampled from those available on the LIS Blog:

Notes from LIS Council

Topics discussed by the LIS Council this week included:

  • 40th Anniversary of Preus Library
  • Fine Arts Collection Updates
  • Faculty Roll – Summer 2009 (Hardware & Scheduling)
  • Service Points Task Force Update
  • Colleague Advancement Scheduling
  • Paideia Support
  • Reason Update
  • Cell Phone Policy Changes
  • Review of new brief LIS brochure
  • MISO Data Review

NITLE Opportunities

As a member of NITLE (National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education), Luther has the opportunity to participate in a wide variety of developmental and training programs intended for faculty, librarians, and information technologists. Events listed at the link below are currently open for registration by Luther participants. LIS Staff who are interested in participating in an event should speak with Christopher Barth. Faculty who are interested in participating should speak with Lori Stanley. Participation is contingent upon available funding and program acceptance.

A full list of events (sortable by registration deadline) is available at http://www.nitle.org/www/events.

Next Week in LIS

Notable Internet Resource of the Week: Omegle

Press regarding a new social site Omegle has recently made the rounds, including a recent profile in the New York Times. Omegle, programmed by an 18-year-old (looking for other programming work) is a service that anonymously connects you with another user to chat and socialize. By clicking the “Start a Chat” button you are placed into a room with another individual and away you go (it really is that simple). For extroverts and the adventurous, this may be a great sort of site. It does have the ability to connect with you with interesting people from around the world. The down side, is you never know who you’re going to get, and anonymous nooks on the Internet don’t necessarily attract the most upstanding netizens. But that’s what the Disconnect button is for :)

On the web at http://omegle.com/

Around the Web

Here are a few links to interesting developments over the past week:

  • Mobility
    • None

Want to follow these updates during the week? or via RSS? Point your browser to Infoneer.net.

This Week in LIS is published most Fridays by Christopher Barth, Executive Director of Library and Information Services at Luther College for the Luther College community as well as those interested in information services and higher education.

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