Making the Most of Digital Collections through Training and Outreach: The Innovative Librarian’s Guide

Making the Most of Digital Collections through Training and Outreach: The Innovative Librarian’s Guide

Pedagogy

Nicholas Tanzi wrote a book to assist librarians on how to teach others to use the digital repositories and digital materials in the libraries database. Much like UCF’s library, most libraries have their entire collection online where you can request a book if you want to. Libraries also have a purely digital collection where the originals are too old and fragile to be held or used, so a digital form is a better option unless you specifically need the original. Besides the physical change of the libraries and archives, people have to adapt to a digital age as well. Tanzi found that librarians were having difficulty teaching their visitors on how to use the digital archives and search engine as they didn’t understand it themselves. Tanzi provides easy terms and ways to use with visitors so that the process doesn’t get confusing. Another aspect that Tanzi focuses on is how to help visitors who had a bad experience prior. This can be an issue because this can make visitors unwilling to adapt, so creating a good experience for every visitor is crucial.
Tanzi’s book provides a teaching strategy to use for everyday people who come into the library looking for a book, movie, audio clip, etc. It’s important to assist our community in adapting to a digital age

Nicholas Tanzi

Libraries Unlimited

2016

Abbygail Dees

Book

SBN: 978-1440840722

Tanzi, Nicholas. Making the Most of Digital Collections through Training and Outreach: The Innovative Librarian’s Guide. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 2016. https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Collections-through-Training-Outreach-ebook/dp/B0178MKAT8/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=ISBN+978-1-4408-4072-2&qid=1586490650&s=books&sr=1-1