1. The Search Guide an interactive course on how to search, evaluate and work with information Internet Librarian International 061017 B204 Eva Norling & Peter Giger Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

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4. What is the Search Guide?  An extension of The Quick Search Guide >  A search guide in Swedish and in English  Based on texts and a variety of media  Eight separate sections >  A course in information literacy  A tool for making lessons >  Works of reference  Learning objects > E

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8. The Search Guide – by whom?  © Blekinge Tekniska Högskolas bibliotek / Blekinge Institute of Technology Library  We have made the Search Guide: Eva Norling, BTH Anne-Marie Pettersson, BTH and Johan Olofsson, Iconsulting  Texts: Anne-Marie Pettersson, Eva Norling, Kent Pettersson, Jenny Löfkvist, Anna Stockman, Peter Linde and Peter Giger. The subject specific texts were written by contact librarians, see signatures by the respective texts.  Translation: Jenny Löfkvist  Illustrations: Robert Nyberg Flash och layout: Lena Ålenius Photo: Malin Johansson  Web programming: Annika Lindquist, Kajsa Bjerstedt Blom Thanks to: Lasse, Jörgen, Mia, Peter, Ulrika P

9.  Different learning styles  Questionnaire on the web >  Usability tests  Interviews with students and professors  Colleagues’ experiences  Integration into courses  Collection of training resources The Search Guide - why? E

10. User survey – How do you learn best? Choose one or several options! A) By reading 66.1% 251 B) By listening 57.6% 219 C) By practicing 84.5% 321 D) By reflecting/analyzing 46.6% 177 E) By presenting 15.5% 59 F) By seeing how other people do 42.4% 161 G) By giving form to 6.1% 23 H) By discussing 53.7% 204 I) By solving problems 51.6% 196 J) By trying to understand 39.2% 149 K) By seeing connections/context 49.7% 189 L) By building on experiences 45.3% 172 M) By realizing the benefit of it 30.8% 117 N) By creating new possibilities 12.9% 49 O) By focusing on details 9.5% 36 P) Other (specify in comment field) 2.4% 9 Q) ? 0.8% 3 Total 614.5% 2335 E

11.  Students online  Campus students  Teachers / tutors  Librarians  Freely available online The Search Guide – for whom? P

12. Use of The Search Guide  New patrons  Library introductions  In our LMS – Learning Management System  Information folders  The library web site  In education > P

13. In education  Course material in information searching  Private studies  Reference literature  In education The teacher The contact librarian Collaboration to prefer Course plan The higher education act ”ability to search and evaluate knowledge at a scientific level” E

14. The Search Guide http://www.sokguiden.se/en/ P

15. Next step - 2.0? Learning by:  Communication  Collaboration Processes  Presentation  Expressing, reformulating  Reflection  Development: better possibilities to communicate in the searchguide E

16. Next Step 2.0  Other libraries want to have it  Licence Problems  What we need: Open Source P

17. Next Step 2.0  Development  Variety, diversity  Different languages  Updates  Learning Objects  Interaction  What we need: cooperation, networking E

18. Web 2.0  Wish List:  Communication  Open Source  Networking = Web 2.0 P

19. The Search Guide 2.0  Web 2.0 / Library 2.0  Participate – share  Collaboration between libraries  Community E

20.  Stimulate cooperation around library education  Content sharing  Competence, expertise, participation, responsibility  Dialogue  Invitation to participate P Network for librarians

21. Searchguide 2.0 Structure http://searchguide.se Community http://yourownchoice.com Local Installation E

22. Open Source Technology  Everything is based on open source  Philosophy of participation and openness  Sharable Templates & Plugins  Linux  Apache Web Server  MySql Database Server  PHP, Javascript, XHTML, CSS, (Ajax)  Wordpress Blog/CMS Server Software P

23. The Community Pages  Hosting learning objects in all forms as Video, Flash, Audio  Hosting Themes for the local searchguide  Hosting function plugins for the local searchguide  All languages is allowed for articles and objects  Site language in English  International aim  Discussion  Academic Creative Playground  Participation/Web 2.0 Licence P

24. Participation License  Development through participation  Builds on the same thought as many file sharing communites: You have to share to download.  Participation leads to responsibility  Avoiding a ”free bank” situation where a few deposit and many withdraw  If not using our local system, then the system must have Web 2.0 intentions. The essence is web 2.0 E

25. Local Searchguide  gets content from the community pages to the local server  Light system, possible to install in a web hotell for 50 euro/year  We provide a customizable interface >  We recommend it, but if you have another web 2 solution, it is ok. P

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27.  Comments  Possibly chat, i.e. MeeboMe plugin  Users’ Evaluations  Users’ Presentations  Users’ Reflections  Possibly integrate podcast, videocast function (even on a user level) P Interaction in the Local Searchguide

28. The Searchguide 2.0 idea  Participate in the open source movement  Collaboration among library collegues  Raise awareness and knowlege about lightweight, open source, web 2.0 systems  Communicate participation strategies  Let users participate in the creation of content – in the local Searchguide.  Communicate library interaction strategies P

29. Invitation Welcome to join the Search Guide Librarian Community Invitation: http://www.searchguide.se/blog/ Please mail to: eva.norling@bth.se peter.giger@bth.se anne-marie.pettersson@bth.se E