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	Informing Innovation: Tracking Student Interest in Emerging Library Technologies at Ohio University Char Booth Item Number: 978-0-8389-8526-7   Publisher: ACRL Price: $46.00		Order Options:       Qty:
150 pages 8.25" x 11" Softcover ISBN-13: 978-0-8389-8526-7 Year Published: 2009 AP Categories: P, I Informing Innovation: Tracking Student Interest in Emerging Library Technologies at Ohio University (A Research Report) by Char Booth, examines one institution’s efforts to move away from technolust and towards a “culture of assessment." It presents findings from an environmental scan conducted at Ohio University, which investigated the convergence of students, libraries, and emerging information, communication, and academic tools. The author uses survey data to test generational and demographic assumptions that often guide technology development in academic libraries. The identification of student behaviors related to emerging and social technologies and the implications indicated by those behaviors are central to this study. The need for local user assessment is a fundamental message in this volume, which shares practical research strategies and methods with the reader. University and college libraries can use this case study and its appended survey instrument template to conduct similar investigations on their campuses. Foreword by Dr. Joan K. Lippincott, Associate Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) This book is also available as a digital publication. Please click here. Table of Contents Foreword by Joan K. Lippincott Acknowledgements Introduction: Testing Technolust PART ONE: Local Insight to Library Practice: Informing Innovation through User Research 1. Change and Response 2. Literature Review Demographics and User Profiling Generations in Transition Student Technology Use and Ownership A Demographic Divide Shifting Literacies Technology Integration in Higher Education 3. Local User Research: Design, Implementation, and Analysis PART TWO: A Case-study in Environmental Scanning: Findings and Implications Findings and Implications 4. Participant Demographics 5. Findings: Student Technology Cultures a. Ownership b. Use c. Skill d. Adoption 6. Student Library Profiles a. Use b. Perceptions c. Skill d. Technology Receptivity 7. Trends in Technology Receptivity 8. Conclusion References Appendices A, B, and C About the Author Char Booth is E-Learning Librarian at the University of California at Berkeley , and was previously Reference and Instruction Librarian, Ohio University (2006 -2008) when this research study was conducted.