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Event: Archival Educators Research Institute (AERI) July 12, 2011, Boston, MA Abstract: The neologisms, bloggership and blogademia, have emerged in recent years, reflecting the adoption of blogs as channels for scholarly communication; the former in reference to legal scholarship blogs, or blawgs, and the latter to blogs across disciplines. This presentation reports select findings from a descriptive study of scholars who blog in the areas of history, economics, law, biology, chemistry and physics. The study examined scholars’ attitudes and perceptions of their blogs in relation to the system of scholarly communication, their preferences for digital preservation, and their respective blog publishing behaviors and blog characteristics influencing preservation action. Drawing from 153 questionnaires, 24 interviews, and content analysis of 93 blogs, this presentation will provide a focused analysis of findings related to preservation preferences. Results from the questionnaire portion of the study show that scholars who blog are generally interested in blog preservation with a strong sense of personal responsibility. Most feel their blogs should be preserved for both personal and public access and use into the indefinite, rather than short-term, future. Respondents identify themselves as most responsible for blog preservation. Concerning capability, they perceive blog service providers, hosts, and networks as most capable. National and institutional-based libraries and archives, as well as institutional IT departments, are perceived as least responsible and least capable for preservation of scholars’ respective blogs. During the subsequent interview portion of the study, participants did not dismiss the value of these organizations. If anything, for some, it is exactly this value that contributes to perceptions of libraries and archives’ low responsibility and capability. This presentation will conclude by offering implications from these findings on the potential role, or lack of role, for archives and libraries in the preservation of scholars’ blogs.

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ONE LESS “TO-DO”

CAROLYN.HANK@MCGILL.CA

Assistant Professor ▪ School of Information Studies

PERCEPTIONS ON THE ROLE OF ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES IN PRESERVING SCHOLARS’ BLOGS

AERI INSTITUTE 2011 ▪ JULY 12 ▪ BOSTON, US

How do scholars who

blog perceive their blog

in relation to their cumulative

scholarly record?

02 | 25 research questions

How do scholars who

blog perceive their blog

in relation to long-term

stewardship?

Who do they perceive

as responsible as well

as capable for blog

preservation?

03 | 25 research questions

What blog characteristics

impact preservation?

What blogger behaviours

impact preservation?

03 | 25 research questions

Questionnaires

Interviews

Blog AnalysisBLOGGER

BLOG

03 | xx research questions05 | 25 units & data sources

Academic Blog

Portal

Purposive Sampling

<http://www.academicblogs.org>

06 | 25 population

(29%)

125 Single-Blogs | 65 Co-Blogs

History| Economics | Law | BioChemPhys

06 | xx population07 | 25 eligible blogs

107 Single-Bloggers | 187 Co-Bloggers

08 | 25 eligible bloggers

Completed sample:

153 respondents

RR 1: QI: 63% | QII: 46% | QI/II: 52%

Outcome rates derived from Internet surveys of specifically named persons from

the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR, 2009)

09 | 25 questionnaires

24 semi-structured

phone interviews

72 (47%) of QI & QII respondents expressed interest

10 | 25 interviews

Coded 93 blogs

57 to 63 Indicators

(on/off blog)

Authorship Attributes

Blog Elements & Features

Rights & Disclaimers

Authority & Audience

Blog Publishing Activity

Post Features

Archiving

11 | 25 blog analysis

results

public 100%

subject to

critical

review 68%

allows use and

exchange 94%part of the

scholarly

record 80%

Association of Research Libraries (1986). Braxton, J.M., Luckey, W., & Helland, P. (2002).

13 | 25 scholarship

0% 100%

Personal access/use

Indefinite future

Public access/use

Indefinite future

Personal access/use

Short-term future

Personal access/use

Short-term future

16%

19%

76%

80%

14 | 25 preservation

15 | 25 preservation

16 | 25 preservation

hmm…17/48

Better things to do

Personal responsibility

Personal communications

Bad experience

05 | 35 RESEARCH DESIGN18 | 25 perceptions on roles

first line of

defense

first line of

defense

final line of

defense

“Let the

conversation

begin.”Borgman, C.L. (2007). Scholarship in the digital age:

Information, infrastructure and the Internet.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

22 | 25 next steps

THANKS TO …Dr. Helen R. Tibbo

Dr. Lynn Silipigni Connaway

Dr. Jeffrey Pomerantz

Paul Jones

Dr. Richard Marciano

Dr. Cal Lee

Dr. Deborah Barreau

THANKS FOR …Beta Phi Mu 2010 Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)

School of Library and Information Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

… AND THANK YOU

CAROLYN HANKEmail: carolyn.hank@mcgill.ca

Phone: 514.398.4684

Web: http://ils.unc.edu/~hcarolyn

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