(july 2011) one less "to-do:" perceptions on the role of archives and libraries in the...
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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.TRANSCRIPT
ONE LESS “TO-DO”
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: [email protected]
Phone: 514.398.4684
Web: http://ils.unc.edu/~hcarolyn
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QUESTIONS?