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Knowledge Experts – Knowledge
Management and E-Learning
Skills for Digital Librarians
Aban Budin & Gerhard Budin
University of Vienna
Problem Situation and Assumptions
• Many librarians still lack advanced media literacy for proactive digital library services.
• In addition, many libraries are not yet prepared for
assuming new roles and functions in institutions and net
works, in particular in the areas of e-learning and content
management.
• Furthermore, librarians are mostly seen as service
providers in the traditional way and not quite as equal to
academic staff in connection with content development.
• Such new roles and functions may lead to emerging
professional profiles and specializations for digital
librarians.
Digital libraries for E-learning
Environments
• E-learning environments rely on digital content
that has to be organized, stored, managed, and
supplied in pertinent ways to support learning
processes.
• Unfortunately, in most e-learning environments,
libraries are still playing a marginal role.
• Learning objects are stored in repositories and
indexed with educational meta-data (IEEE LOM
Standard).
Digital Libraries and Knowledge
Management
• In addition to corporate environments, knowledge
management is increasingly applied also in
education, the public sector, and other spheres of
society.
• Sustainable knowledge management relies on
intelligent preservation of data for their instant
retrieval and re-use in new situations.
• Holistic knowledge management strategies and
applications acknowledge a crucial role of digital
libraries.
A holistic integrated view
E-learning
Strategies
Applications
Digital Libraries
Knowledge Management
Case study: E-learning meets Digital
Libraries in BRICKS
• BRICKS: Building Resources for Integrated
Cultural Knowledge Services (IP in FP6).
• Integrating e-learning experiences and
university initiatives of transforming
cultural content into learning content for
academic learning environment.
• Introducing students to real life scenarios in
cultural heritage management.
Relevant Dimensions of E-Learning
• Blended learning scenarios.
• Learning content development – didactic
modelling and reorganization of existing
content.
• Learning technologies and standards.
• Multi-lingual and cross-cultural learning
scenarios.
Standards in E-Learning
• The learning object meta data model for learning resources
– Involves: IEEE LTSC, JTC1/SC 36, IMS, CEN, etc.
• SCORM (Shareable content object reference model)
Specifications and framework.
• Builds upon and integrates other standards initiative such
as DCMI.
• ->Many links to digital libraries and their roles.
Principles for E-Learning
Standardization
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Inter-operability,
Re-usability,
Manageability,
Accessibility,
Durability,
Granularity (Modularizability).
Conclusions:
Goals for Digital Library Education
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Digital libraries, as enabling tools for e-learning and knowledge management
environments, need enabled staff.
Not only librarians need further education to adapt to their changed market and
to assume their new roles and images, but also the academic staff and students
need to envision the library and its staff in a new role:
– Interaction between library staff, teachers and students in developing
Learning Objects and contents for e-learning from the library collections.
– Further education for library staff should be on part-time, distance
learning basis, in shorter courses than normal library school curricula.
– It is vital to adapt the contents, the level and the goals of the further
education for librarians to their respective age, the position, cultural and
social as well as educational background, in order to ensure outmost
motivation and further implementation.
– Sustainable business models (including third party funding, incentives in
HRM).
Conclusion: Examples (1)
• Examples of relevant continuous education programs in
Austria:
– Co-operation between the Semantic Web School and the BrainPool of the Austrian National Library
– The Knowledge Experts Project (European Social Fund) of the
University of Vienna:
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Digital literacy and media literacy
Social skills
Communication skills in digital work environments
E-tutoring/e-learning competencies
Special perspectives on digital libraries in their wider roles and functions in a
learning society
• Knowledge management / Content management
• Gender mainstreaming strategies and skills
Conclusion: Examples (2)
• ICIMSS:
• Stands for: The International Centre for
Information Management Systems & Services.
• Launched in 1997-98 as an international initiative
to provide further professional development to
information professionals in Central and Eastern
Europe.
• Designed as blended learning course; currently a
new programme is under development.
Conclusion: References
Brain Pool:
http://www.onb.ac.at/about/aus/bpool/index.htm
BRICKS:
http://www.brickscommunity.org
E-learning Centre, University of Vienna:
http://elearningcenter.univie.ac.at/
http://www.univie.ac.at/lehrentwicklung/
ICIMSS:
http://www.icimss.edu/
The Semantic Web School:
http://www.onb.ac.at/about/aus/bpool/sws.htm
Thank you for your attention.
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