How will education libraries best serve their communities in 2015? Why do we need to organise information more effectively? How do we incorporate the evolving semantic web environments? In a world of API and big data, libraries (and in particular school libraries) are faced with a significant ‘conceptual’ challenge. The new RDA cataloguing standard will substantively influence and then change information organization, focusing on users, access and interoperability. Search interfaces will be the key. We’re not dealing with records anymore. We are working with interrelated nodes of data. Are you prepared?

1. Strategic Directions
for School Libraries
SCIS Consultation 4 December 2012
JUDY O’CONNELL FACULTY OF EDUCATION

2. This is our context!
.... our augmented environments reality
Multi-literate, multi-device curriculum environments
Natural user interfaces & game-based learning
Expanding ‘services’ & collaborative spaces
New information pathways & cloud environments
Accessible and searchable collections
Critical thinking and authentic problem solving
Socially networked & collaborative Web 2.0
Copyright, creative commons, digital citizenship
Horizon Report K-12
http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2012-horizon-report-K12.pdf
JUDY O’CONNELL CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY

3. This is our context!
.... our library services reality
The spaces and places of
libraries are physical and virtual, adopting
and adapting Web 2.0 media tools to
enhance and envelop school learning
communities into a series of globally
powered learning commons—dynamic,
collaborative 21st century library
environments!
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4. Degree of Information Connectivity
An introduction to the Semantic Web http://goo.gl/Wudfz
Semantic Web
Semantic Web
of knowledge
of intelligence
Web of
Web of people &
information
social information

5. Google creates the illusion of accessibility
How does search impact the way students think and
the way we organise information access?
http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation/index.html
http://www.wolframalpha.com/educators/
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6. linkeddata.org schema.org
Whereas traditional library
metadata has always been focused
on helping humans find and make use of
information, linked data ontologies
are focused on helping machines find and
make use of information.
On the web – of the web ~ http://kcoyle.net/presentations/lita2011.html
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7. This uri from the Library of Congress
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85042531
has now become the globally available,
machine and human readable, reliable
source for the description for the
subject heading of ‘Elephants’
containing links to its related terms (in a
way that both machines and humans
can navigate).
Open Library is an
open, editable library
catalog building towards
a web page for every
book ever published.
Project of the Internet
Archive.
http://openlibrary.org/

8. This is our context!
.... our library services reality
The catalogue has been a silo but with RDA data can move
beyond bibliographic and authority records
RDA encourages the recording of sufficient data to support
more precise collocation
RDA emphasizes the importance of relationships
RDA adds precision to access points
RDA provides greater internationalisation
RDA builds a display of results that conveys meaningful
information to the user
JUDY O’CONNELL CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY

9. This is our context!
.... old questions, new answers
Metadata ~ what are the rules of engagement?
Schema ~ what about controlled vocabularies?
Users ~ what are their access needs
Interface ~ how many access points?
Data ~ what are the opportunities for user engagement?
Media ~ what are the elements of interactivity?
Access ~ what can we learn from the semantic web?
JUDY O’CONNELL CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY

10. This is our context!
.... OPAC as discovery interface
Context aware:
Points on the curriculum
Points on the interest continuum
Capacity to support learning discovery! How do you
Access aware: stack up?
Interfaces to support searching and discovery
Search aware:
Natural, predictive, responsive
Results aware:
Multimodal, multi-depository, relevant, filtered
JUDY O’CONNELL CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY

11. Strategic directions for school libraries!
.... today’s novelty is tomorrow’s norm
New skills
New knowledge
New metadata
New open access
New global connections
New learning community
Are you prepared?
JUDY O’CONNELL CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY