Blummer, Barbara

Kritskaya, Olga

Laster, Barbara

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Georgia Southern UniversityDigital Commons@Georgia SouthernGeorgia International Conference on InformationLiteracy(Formerly known as the Georgia Conference on Information Literacy)Sep 26th, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PMPsychosemiotics and Information LiteracyInstruction: Identifying Signways in LibraryTutorialsBarbara LasterBarbara BlummerTowson University, MDOlga KritskayaFollow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlitPart of the Curriculum and Instruction Commons, and the Information Literacy CommonsThis presentation (open access) is brought to you for free and open access by the Conferences & Events at Digital Commons@Georgia Southern. It hasbeen accepted for inclusion in Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@Georgia Southern. For more information, please contact digitalcommons@georgiasouthern.edu.Recommended CitationLaster, Barbara; Blummer, Barbara; and Kritskaya, Olga, "Psychosemiotics and Information Literacy Instruction: Identifying Signwaysin Library Tutorials" (2009). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 45.https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2009/2009/45 Barbara Laster, Towson University &  Barbara Blummer, Center for Computing Sciences Methodology & research question  Examined academic libraries’ tutorials & informational guides for evidence of semiotics & instruction through multiple signways  Research question:  What are the multiple communication channels used for instructional or informational delivery?  Chose tutorials; two independent raters; findings in chart form Peirce (1912)  Founder of semiotics, or the science of signs    Icons-represent the object    Indexes- “connected” to an object    Symbols- interpreted meaning                       Related Literature    Wagner (1992) - literature review of the topic   Ma & Diodata (1999) - users’ meaning-making in interpretation of the icons as index pointers    Newell (2005) - images of librarian-user reference interactions on library web pages   Wells (2007) - users’ meaning-making with library catalog signs Smith (2005)  Triadic sign   1st part: “unceasing process of semiosis”   2nd part: Psychosemiotics--the study of how we learn, understand, and use the signs of culture   Various ways of knowing through signways in internal personal and external sociocultural-environmental worlds   Signways represent semiotic processes that contain meaning-making Smith’s Seven Signways  2nd Part continued   Linguistic, musical, logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, social-personal, and naturalistic   Similar to Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligences theory    3rd Part  pragmatic realm of formal education  a learning environment that recognizes various signways to support students’ meaning making      Smith’s Seven Signways     Linguistic- all types of written or spoken verbal language   Musical- conventions, sounds, rhythms, and skills of music   Logical/mathematical- linear and sequential knowledge & operations     Spatial-  visual-spatial arrays   Bodily-kinesthetic- use of the body & its parts    Social-personal- signs of knowing about others & oneself   Naturalistic- recognition of patterns in the natural & cultural worlds & classification of objects and events    Cardiff University’s  When to cite exercise    Linguistic, logical mathematical, spatial, and bodily kinetic skills    “Boolean search OR & AND” which offers many signways (linguistic, logical mathematical, spatial, and bodily kinetic), including music Stuff you can find at Owens library     game               Northwest Missouri’s Owens Library Stuff you can find at Owens library     game               Northwest Missouri’s Owens Library Ohio State Libraries Net.tutor Head hunt: The game  The library’s Social Networks tutorial  University of Colorado Libraries Publish Not Perish: the Art and Craft of Publishing in Scholarly Journals, University of Colorado Libraries University of Calgary’s Workshop on the Information Search Process for Research (WISPR) California State University’s  Fullerton Library’s Streaming Video Tour   the library is “place to get information and get it fast”   disputes the stereotype of libraries as boring places  Findings/Limitations  Achieved 96% agreement in assessment    Disagreed over the mathematical-linear channel   Small number of tutorials examined   Lack of users’ input; future research should interview users Implications  Receiving instruction and information from diverse channels expands the meaning-making experience.   Librarians should attempt to utilize as many signways as possible to maximize students’ ability to make meaning.   Using the open source materials from PRIMO allows librarians to adopt tools to enhance their service to users. Thank You  Dr. Barbara Laster , blaster@towson.edu  Barbara Blummer, bblumm1@students.towson.edu  

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