Examining group work: Implications for the digital library as sharium

Sandra Toze; Elaine G. Toms

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-15464-5_29

Examining group work: Implications for the digital library as sharium

Sandra Toze, Elaine G. Toms

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Digital libraries have the potential to be rich interactive environments or "shariums" that support students who work in groups to complete course work. To understand how DLs might realize this potential, the processes of a single group working on a complex project over a semester were analyzed. Findings suggest that groups perform a range of tasks including administrative, communication and information seeking and retrieval, and use multiple tools and artifacts to accomplish their work. Over the course of the work, activities shift from the individual to group illustrating the need for a complex system that intertwines public and private work space. Currently DLs provide only one tool - search - that a group might use, but do not fully support groupwork.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries - 14th European Conference, ECDL 2010, Proceedings
Pages	282-293
Number of pages	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15464-5_29
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	14th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, ECDL 2010 - Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: Sept 6 2010 → Sept 10 2010

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	6273 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Conference	14th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, ECDL 2010
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Glasgow
Period	9/6/10 → 9/10/10

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Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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Toze, S., & Toms, E. G. (2010). Examining group work: Implications for the digital library as sharium. In Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries - 14th European Conference, ECDL 2010, Proceedings (pp. 282-293). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 6273 LNCS). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15464-5_29

Examining group work: Implications for the digital library as sharium. / Toze, Sandra; Toms, Elaine G.
Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries - 14th European Conference, ECDL 2010, Proceedings. 2010. p. 282-293 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 6273 LNCS).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Toze, S & Toms, EG 2010, Examining group work: Implications for the digital library as sharium. in Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries - 14th European Conference, ECDL 2010, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 6273 LNCS, pp. 282-293, 14th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, ECDL 2010, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 9/6/10. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15464-5_29

Toze S, Toms EG. Examining group work: Implications for the digital library as sharium. In Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries - 14th European Conference, ECDL 2010, Proceedings. 2010. p. 282-293. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-15464-5_29

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