How about displaying alternating selections of current periodicals in
the cases outside or at the entry of your library? We have an area for
new books in FAL but everytime we actually do an exhibition of new
books, it's as if students are seeing this stuff for the first time and
we always get a no. of checkouts. We have not done a user study for a
while so am not sure I would see the same pattern but certainly fewer
students come into the FAL now which would certainly result in lower
magazine use. Most of the time, they just want the stuff on the
computer and sometimes refuse to even go into the stacks for a magazine
article that they cannot find online! This situation happened to me
last semester and the student wasted at least 30 minutes on the computer
when she could have taken 5 minutes to walk to the stacks to find
exactly what she needed. Am not sure what the solution is for this
attitude but certainly more and more of our journals are starting to go
online full-text but it's still a relative drop in the bucket, more like
a drop in the ocean of periodical art literature! BJ
B. J. Kish Irvine, Ph.D.
Director, Fine Arts Library
1201 E. 7th Street
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405
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Subject: [ARLIS-L] Library Instruction and Outreach - 2 focus areas -
Current Periodicals/Plagiarism
1. At the Design, Architecture, Art and Planning Library - we are
concerned that our current periodicals are not being used to the fullest
extent. We are searching for new and creative ideas to entice students
to use our collection. We have noticed since our last journal use
survey 5 years ago that the use has declined. I am sure we can attribute
a lot of that to Internet - but as we know - a significant portion of
art/design periodicals are not yet online. If you have ideas about ways
to integrate current periodical use into the curriculum we would
appreciate it. We have tried integrating an assignment into the
freshman curriculum which includes students identifying five titles in
their major. We also highlight titles on the web page - but I am not
sure this has been terribly effective. Not only do we want to encourage
use in the curriculum - but simply want to encourage students to browse
in their free time between classes.
2. In preparation for the fall quarter - the library will be
participating in an "academic integrity week" The Library's role will
be to mainly highlight the importance of citation and to help students
understand what plagiarism is. We are finding many undergraduates
simply don't understand the importance of attribution. If you have good
examples of education programs that have worked at your institution, we
are interested. We are focusing on "real-world" examples.
thanks in advance for your suggestions.
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