Nora McGregorDigital Curator

@ndalyrose

Supporting the Digital Researcher

Three deliverables:

1. Install a prototype digital research space within the Front Hall for both individual and collaborative working.

2. Design and build user interfaces and workstation arrays that demonstrate a vision for multimedia digital research.

3. Evaluate the individual and group user experiences in this technology-rich environment and inform the Digital Research Centre programme and other future service proposition development

A project to help us design and deliver future research services and environments with a view to the “Land to the North” and our 2020 Vision

prototype digital research space launched fall 2010 through summer 2011

digital media workstation arrays

new user interfaces

displayed subject area resources

digitised resources

eJournals

audio/visual materials

and provided digital research tools

new user interfaces [continued]

CIBER Research Group Evaluation

What we’ve learned:

It’s not just about the space, it’s about the interaction

An average of 40% of survey respondents said they are inclined to use tools they learned about in Growing Knowledge

We are not just content providers. We are advisors, partners, practitioners, facilitators.

Tooling up @British Library

•Building a readers network on Facebook/Twitter•Professional networking on Yammer•Collaborative working via internal wiki•Using social media for collection development•Leveraging external platforms•Text mining, data mining•Setting up a crowdsourcing project

Crowdsourcing the Geo-referencing maps

British Library Wikipedian-in-Residence

Questions?

Nora McGregorDigital Curator

https://twitter.com/ndalyrose