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Collecting Fugitive Literature: Bringing Collection Development Expertise Into The Digital Age, Karen Schmidt, Wendy Shelburne, David Vess Nov 2006

Collecting Fugitive Literature: Bringing Collection Development Expertise Into The Digital Age, Karen Schmidt, Wendy Shelburne, David Vess

Scholarly Publications

This presentation reflects the work that Wendy Shelburne, David Vess, and I engaged in to collect hate literature from the web. The research was later accepted by Library Resources & Technical Services for publication in 2008.


Perspectives On Teachers As Digital Library Users: Consumers, Contributors, And Designers, Mimi Recker Sep 2006

Perspectives On Teachers As Digital Library Users: Consumers, Contributors, And Designers, Mimi Recker

Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences Faculty Publications

"...freed of the constraints of physical space and media, digital libraries can be more adaptive and reflective of the communities they serve. They should be collaborative, allowing users to contribute knowledge to the library, either actively through annotations, reviews, and the like, or passively through their patterns of resource use. In addition, they should be contextual, expressing the expanding web of inter-relationships and layers of knowledge that extend among selected primary resources. In this manner, the core of the digital library should be an evolving information base, weaving together professional selection and the 'wisdom of crowds.'" (Lagoze, Krafft, Payette, & …


Alternative Models Of Knowledge Production: A Step Forward In Information Literacy As A Liberal Art, Shilpa Shanbhag Apr 2006

Alternative Models Of Knowledge Production: A Step Forward In Information Literacy As A Liberal Art, Shilpa Shanbhag

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Information literacy is embedded within the traditional disciplinary model of knowledge production wherein the role of the scholar/expert and the process of peer-review are emphasized. Exclusive reference to this model is inadequate in informing the production of knowledge outside of formal academic setting and consequently inadequate in supporting the objectives of liberal learning. Shapiro and Hughes' concept of information literacy as a liberal art provides a useful framework for discussion on alternative models of knowledge production.