Open AccessDiscover collaboration: Collaborative learning from the implementation of a discovery system
Author(s) -
Åsa Forsberg,
Emma Nolin
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
nordic journal of information literacy in higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1890-5900
DOI - 10.15845/noril.v5i1.190
Subject(s) - intranet , unit (ring theory) , computer science , digital library , plan (archaeology) , process (computing) , library classification , world wide web , library science , mathematics education , the internet , psychology , art , poetry , literature , operating system , archaeology , history
Background Lund University Library purchased and implemented a new discovery system in the end of 2011 and the beginning of 2012. Historically there has been no collaboration between the digital library unit and the pedagogical unit at the University Library. The conditions for the implementation were quite difficult; an extremely tight time frame, changes of the member of staff, high demands from the library network, a bad relation with current system supplier, a dependency of the current system and its functionalities. What to do? In order to reach trustworthiness and to make sure that we have a learning perspective in all the processes we initiated a close collaboration between the digital unit and the pedagogical unit and formed an implementation group. We also initiated a close and active collaboration between the implementation group and an expert group formed by members from the faculty libraries i.e. the super user group. Activities We had four workshops about pedagogical issues regarding discovery systems. The workshops turned out to be a forum for a dialogue between the digital library, the pedagogical unit and the teacher librarians. They resulted in an action plan which was integrated in the implementation process. We also invited colleagues to informal discussions about the pedagogical use of the discovery system. We encouraged all teaching librarians to share their educational materials on our intranet. Conclusion We found the collaborative strategy fruitful and not only did it result in a closer collaboration between the digital library and the pedagogical unit but also with the library network. Due to several reasons we conducted a new tender of a discovery system during 2012. The tender resulted in a new system with a different supplier. In the implementation started in the autumn 2012, we implemented the experiences and learnings gained by our previous implementation.