Tammera M. Race Copyright (c) 2013 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/tammera_race Recent documents in Tammera M. Race en-us Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:18:57 PDT 3600 Resource Discovery Tools: Supporting Serendipity http://works.bepress.com/tammera_race/2 http://works.bepress.com/tammera_race/2 Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:05:28 PDT Serendipity, the accidental discovery of something useful, plays an important role in discovery and the acquisition of new knowledge. The process and role of serendipity varies across disciplines. As library collections have become increasingly digital faculty lament the loss of serendipity of browsing library stacks. Resource discovery tools may have features that support serendipity as part of information seeking. A comparison of four commercial Web-scale discovery tools, Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) WorldCat® Local1, Serials Solution2® Summon3™, ExLibris4® Primo Central5™, and EBSCO Discovery Services (EDS)6™, links product features to characteristics that support serendipitous discovery. However, having such features is only part of the equation. Educators need to include serendipity in discussions about the research process. Future research opportunities include determining whether serendipity can be encouraged, evaluating its occurrence in the web scale environment, and studying serendipity in relation to research instruction.

]]> Tammera M. Race Western Kentucky University Libraries, Preparing Information Literate Students at WKU: Report of the Task Force on Universal Information Literacy http://works.bepress.com/tammera_race/1 http://works.bepress.com/tammera_race/1 Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:11:56 PDT Purpose:

The Task Force on Universal Information Literacy was formed in the fall of 2010 and charged with reviewing the advisability and viability of providing information literacy instruction to every student at WKU.

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