The Touchdown Suite: How a Digital Environment Reshaped Librarians' Roles in Information Fluency

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dc.contributor.authorVaska, Marcuseng
dc.contributor.authorLin, Yongtaoeng
dc.date.accessioned2012-04-18T19:40:29Z
dc.date.available2012-04-18T19:40:29Z
dc.date.issued2012-04-18T19:40:29Z
dc.descriptionPresentation delivered at the 2012 Information Fluency Conference, University of Central Florida, Orlando, March 14-16, 2012eng
dc.description.abstractAn Information “Touchdown Suite” model, “offering a range of library services and resources supporting teaching, research and patient care activities” (Bryant, n.d.), was followed in an applied research environment affiliated with a tertiary cancer care facility to provide collaborative and customized information support, enhancing creativity, and critical thinking. This emerging space creates ample opportunities in how information fluency is adapted and evolves in this digital culture, by providing access to electronic material, facilitating networking, supporting interaction and promoting knowledge sharing via training programs, research group meetings, one-on-one consultations, webinar hosting, celebration events, and panel discussions. Ever since its first unveiling, the Touchdown Suite has seen a steady increase of traffic flow, as more and more users discover the potential of this space. As librarians, we embed ourselves in supporting the development of skills at all levels of understanding information, and view this space as continuing to engage both researchers and ourselves in knowledge creation, dissemination, and communication.eng
dc.description.refereedYeseng
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/29910
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/48929
dc.language.isoengeng
dc.publisher.corporateUniversity of Calgaryeng
dc.publisher.facultyLibraries and Cultural Resourceseng
dc.rightsAttribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 3.0 Unported*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/*
dc.subjectinformation fluencyeng
dc.subjectinformation literacyeng
dc.subjectdigital environmenteng
dc.subjectlibrarianeng
dc.subjectlibrary serviceseng
dc.subjectdigital cultureeng
dc.subject.otherTouchdown Suiteeng
dc.subject.othercancer care facilityeng
dc.subject.othervirtual libraryeng
dc.titleThe Touchdown Suite: How a Digital Environment Reshaped Librarians' Roles in Information Fluencyeng
dc.typePresentationeng
thesis.degree.disciplineHealth Information Network Calgaryeng
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