Analysis of public library users' digital preservation practices

Copeland, Andrea J.

doi:10.1002/asi.21553

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“…265-266). This typology has been explored in other studies of adults' ELIS activities (Copeland, 2011;Davenport, Richey, & Westbrook, 2008), mainly using interview methods to examine participants' views and perspectives. In order to extend the current analysis to examine this typology, interviews with children or other techniques designed to capture their personal outlooks on their ELIS activities, would be required.…”

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Watching young children “play” with information technology: Everyday life information seeking in the home

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Winkler

Willson

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Library & Information Science Research

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Highlights Young children engage with technology in artistic play, socio-dramatic play and literacy/numeracy.  Everyday life information seeking (ELIS) way of life and mastery of life are modeled in children's activities.  Video data provide a glimpse into technology use by young children in their homes. AbstractResearch on how young children use information to orient themselves in daily life and to solve problems (known as everyday life information seeking or ELIS) has not been conducted, indepth, in information science. This exploratory observation study examines how 15 Australian preschool children (aged three to five) used information technologies in their homes to orient themselves in daily life and to solve problems. Children engaged in various ways with the digital technologies available to them and with parents and siblings during play activities. The results explore the value of artistic play, sociodramatic play, and early literacy and numeracy activities in shaping young children's 'way of life' and 'mastery of life' as outlined in Savolainen's (1995) ELIS model. Observed technology engagement provided an opportunity to explore children's social worlds and the ways that they gathered information during technology play that will inform future learning activities and support child development. By using ELIS theory as an analytic lens, the results demonstrate how children's developmental play with technology tools helps them to internalize social and cultural norms. The data also point to the type of capital available to children and how that capital contributes to children's emerging information practices.

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Watching young children “play” with information technology: Everyday life information seeking in the home

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Winkler

Willson

et al. 2016

Library & Information Science Research

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“…Studies involving personal information management have found that most individuals treat all their digital content the same, regardless of value [1]. For example, many individuals report backing all their content up rather than just items they deem important.…”

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“…One begins to wonder if any of this content is worthy of preservation. Research has found that individuals share digital content that is valuable to them for a variety of reasons [1,2]. However, is it valuable to others?…”

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The Use of Personal Value Estimations to Select Images for Preservation in Public Library Digital Community Collections

Copeland

2014

Future Internet

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A considerable amount of information, particularly in image form, is shared on the web through social networking sites. If any of this content is worthy of preservation, who decides what is to be preserved and based on what criteria. This paper explores the potential for public libraries to assume this role of community digital repositories through the creation of digital collections. Thirty public library users and thirty librarians were solicited from the Indianapolis metropolitan area to evaluate five images selected from Flickr in terms of their value to public library digital collections and their worthiness of long-term preservation. Using a seven-point Likert scale, participants assigned a value to each image in terms of its importance to self, family and society. Participants were then asked to explain the reasoning behind their valuations. Public library users and librarians had similar value estimations of the images in the study. This is perhaps the most significant finding of the study, given the importance of collaboration and forming partnerships for building and sustaining community collections and archives.

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“…Irrespective of the location or media type of their content, the organisa tional tools available to users are familiar: filenames, folders and some dedi cated applications (e.g. iTunes) [1].…”

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Students and Their Videos: Implications for a Video Digital Library

Cunningham

Nichols

Bowen

2016

Digital Libraries: Knowledge, Information, and Data in an Open Access Society

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Abstract. Personal information collections have expanded to include video files but users often organize their content with the same tools they use for other simpler media types. We analyze the 'native' video management behavior ex pressed in 35 self-interviews and diary studies produced by New Zealand stu dents, to create a 'rich picture' of personal video collection size, formats, organ ization and intended usage. We consider how conventional digital libraries can better support usage of personal video material.

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Analysis of public library users' digital preservation practices

Cited by 18 publications

References 61 publications

Watching young children “play” with information technology: Everyday life information seeking in the home

Watching young children “play” with information technology: Everyday life information seeking in the home

The Use of Personal Value Estimations to Select Images for Preservation in Public Library Digital Community Collections

Students and Their Videos: Implications for a Video Digital Library

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