Day 3 – Afternoon Session – DL Education

Supporting Digital Library Education:

Factors Motivating Use of Digital Libraries

- findings: faculty dont' necessarily distinguish between a web page with a series of links and a digital library

- google preferred overall to academics ; they use it for pages they go to regularly

- using google to find things quickly – looking to update existing lecture materials

- barriers:

- lack of awareness; information overload; priorities not lack of time; no motivation to use digital learning materials

emerging questions

- should we match what faculy are using

- granularity of items

- what are faculty dev strategies that work?

- faculty do their own analysis of information they find;

http://serc.carleton.edu/facultypart

recruiting institutions that might be interested in survey

alot of visitors are coming through google

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