Becoming a library power user

Prof. Mackenzie Brooks

JOUR 190

September 22, 2015

Agenda

• Brief trip through the history of information organization and retrieval

• Search Everything demo

• Academic publishing model

• Case study exercise

• Assignment #2

1. Filters come in many forms.

2. Information overload is not new.

3. Filters change over time.
 

4. Knowledge is shaped by its container.

https://xkcd.com/1227/

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Burning_of_the_Library_at_Alexandria_in_391_AD.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chained_library#/media/File:Libraries_in_the_Medieval_and_Renaissance_Periods_Figure_4.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_North_Prospect_of_Mountague_House_JamesSimonc1715.jpg

https://www.flickr.com/photos/8601342@N03/4549779936/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynix_(software)#/media/File:Dynix-Main-Menu-via-Telnet.jpg

New Filters

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Google1998.png

Maybe not information overload, but filter failure.

Search Everything is:

• a discovery tool/system/service
• something we pay for
• potentially biased
• one of the best of its kind
• still not perfect
• constantly changing

Everything =

• 384,267 e-books
• 94,735 e-journals
• 513,255,675 records
• 975,050 catalog items (mostly print)
• 1.5 billion citations
• 90 content types

Remember

You have to tell Search Everything that you know what you're looking for.

How Academic Publishing Works (or doesn't)

https://library.uwinnipeg.ca/scholarly-communication/index.html

Case Studies:

1. Georgia State Copyright Case
2. Authors Guild v. HathiTrust

3. Edwin Mellen v. Dale Askey, McMaster University

4. United States v. Aaron Swartz          

Roles:

1. Scholar
2. Student
3. Publisher
4. Library

Assignment #2

• Due Friday by 5pm
• Zotero and JOUR 190 group
• Background research on your case study