Talking Tech Teaching Tech

Going Digital

Digital Library Services

Tech What?

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This proposed new term for future librarians reflects combined

expertise in information science and subject-domains.

Informationists

A web page or application that combines data or functionality

from two or more external sources to create a new service.

Mashup

System of classification derived from the practice and method of

collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize

content.

Folksonomy

A distributed problem-solving and production model. Problems are broadcast

to an unknown group of solvers in the form of an open call for solutions.

Crowdsourcing

Creation of library technologies for their own sake, based on the

assumption that they are inherently needed and desired.

Technolust

Plagiarism

An issue of scholarly integrity that online tools like Blackboard’s Safe Assign and online tutorials like the

University of Texas’s “Cite it” game seeks to address.

The term for the following up instructional sessions with a quiz to

determine how much a student learned, compared to a similar quiz

offered before the instruction.

Post-test survey/ Post-Test Assessment

The process of placing library resources in places like Blackboard that students already use for class.

Embedding

Multimedia Scholarship

The online journals Visualizing Cultures and Emory’s own Practical Matters provide two examples of this

form of scholarship that integrates images and text online.

A business model for teaching peers to keep current librarians informed about new techniques, teaching tools, and

practices.

Train the Trainer

This is an image editing program which is the “industry standard

for graphics Professionals” but is also popular with academics interested In the virtual restoration of damaged

manuscripts.

Adobe Photoshop

GIS

From a software standpoint, thesesystems are essentially databasesfor storing spatial data, but are

Increasingly being employed to conceptualize changes taking place

over time.

This powerful easy-to-use research tool helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources and share the results

of your search.

Zotero

This is the process of using computer power to extract hidden patterns from

data, analyzing the results from different perspectives and summarizing it into a useful format, such as a graph or table.

Data Mining

Machine learning allows researchers to work on the corpus of literature

much larger than previously possible, and greatly benefits this

approach to literary studies.

Text Analysis

Seen as a vital tool for public access to rare items, while at

the same time creating a disaster-proof record.

Digitization

Standardization of this by publishers would make harvesting info by libraries and searching by users easier and more efficient.

Metadata

Practices and software systems used by libraries to keep track of electronic information resources.

Electronic Resource Management (ERM)

Annual forum held at Emory that focuses on keeping up with

technologies in classrooms and labs, as well as evaluating them in light of Emory faculty’s personal practices.

EDUcate

SDI decoded refers to a library service that gets users the specific information they want; current-

awareness services is a form of it.

Selective Dissemination of Information

The concept that any technological tool becomes outdated, requiring librarians

and faculty to teach skills that will allow students to adopt new

technologies on an ongoing basis.

Obsolescence

Applications are emerging that are bringing the promise of this new form

of web into practice without the need to add additional layers of tags or other

top-down methods of defining context.

Semantic Web

A system for identifying content objects in the digital environment that does not change over time.

Digital Object Identifiers (DOI)

The emergence of these large scale “data farms” – large clusters of networked servers – is bringing

huge quantities of processing power within easy reach.

Cloud Computing

This process assumes that the prevalence of the web will make intermediaries such as libraries

unnecessary.

Dis-Intermediation

This group publishes provocative statements each year about the future

of libraries and librarians.

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