1. The Liaison Librarian and the Taylor Family Digital Library Chris Thomas January 9, 2007

2. Roles and Responsibilities 1. Consultations Resources, strategies and skills 2. Collections Identify, acquire and assess 3. Teaching Course-based Discipline-centered

3. Trends in Learning Mobile and personal technology User expectations – open access, individualized services Increase in collaborative learning Learning occurs anytime and anyplace “[College students] regularly use search engines, e-mail and instant messaging to obtain and share information. The library is not the first or only stop for these information seekers” (OCLC, 2006)

4. Taylor Family Digital Library Personal “In the field” Stations Ad hoc Educational Course management software Audio / video casting Elluminate! session

5. Collaboration in the TFDL Digitization iCOMS 201

6. Looking into the Future Avatars A graphical image of a user Imprinting visual replicas of ourselves, working and collaborating in a virtual space

7. For Further Reading Bennett, Scott. (2006). The choice for learning, The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 32 (1), 3-13. Katz, Richard N. (2006). The ECAR study of undergraduate students and information technology, 2006 – key findings. http://www.educause.edu New Media Consortium. (2006). 2006 Horizon Report http://www.nmc.org/ OCLC. (2006) College students' perceptions: Libraries & Information Resources. http://www.oclc.org/ PEW Internet. (2005). Digital divisions. http://www.pewinternet.org Prensky, Marc. (2001). Digital natives, digital immigrants. http://www.marcprensky.com