lib-ir: experiment in Scholars' Bank

[Barbara Jenkins <jenkins@uoregon.edu>]

Cool

Barb

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> Joe Janes' talk and some additional reading I've been
> doing have got me thinking of ways to maximize
> library services and make the library's presence
> ubiquitous by making sure that the library is
> visible in those places where students already are.
> One article that I found thought-provoking was by
> Joan Lippincott entitled "Net Generation Students
> and Libraries" that is available at:
> http://www.educause.edu/NetGenerationStudentsandLibraries/6067
> 
> Two sentences from her article got me thinking of
> something to try in Scholars' Bank:
> 
> "Some libraries are developing mechanisms to link subject
pathfinders into 
> course management systems for every course at the institution. This
useful 
> strategy brings the information to the place where students will be 
> actively engaged in academic work. "
> 
> We already know that Scholars' Bank is being heavily used. Over
> 4 million hits in the past year. I wanted to see if we could marshal
> some of that power (that is surely coming from its accessibility
> on the open Web) and draw people into using other library
> services.
> 
> Here's the experiment: I and one of my staff are adding links
> to all Community and Collection pages in Scholars' Bank that will
find 
> related materials in the library catalog. You can see the pattern
> we're following if you look at the first few communities in
> Scholars' Bank. We have constructed either a keyword or a
> subject search related to the topic of the collection or
> community and then pasted that in as a hotlink at the bottom
> of the community or collection page.
> 
> So, for instance, on the collection page for CultureWork
> https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/dspace/handle/1794/323
> you will see the link at the bottom of the page that reads:
> 
> "For more information on the topic of the Arts and society, click
> here. "
> 
> It's not comprehensive - nor is it intended to be. It's intended
> to link our disparate collections in our users' minds - whoever
> they might be.
> 
> Thoughts? Reactions?
> 
> Carol
>