You Tube Has Changed Everything Music Faculty Librarians

“You. Tube Has Changed Everything”? Music Faculty, Librarians, and You. Tube Kirstin Dougan Music and Performing Arts Librarian, Music and Performing Arts Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Introduction Much like Wikipedia once was, You. Tube is sometimes seen as the elephant in the room that is the academy. It is evident that students use You. Tube both for personal and school-related media consumption. But how do music faculty view You. Tube and other video sharing websites such as Vimeo and My. Space? • Do they encourage their students to use these tools • Do they use themselves? • Do faculty members’ rank and areas of music specialty (e. g. , trumpet or composition) have any bearing on their use and perceptions of these tools? How do music librarians fit into this picture? NB: Questions in the survey used the term “video sharing websites” which was defined to mean You. Tube, Vimeo, etc. —any site where users could upload their own audio/video files. Method Perceived Ease of Use Results, cont’d 35% Survey sent in Spring 2013 Quality Concerns 30% 20% Extremely concerned 15% 10% Very concerned 5% 0% Moderately concerned Librarians Faculty Slightly concerned Not at all concerned Faculty Respondents 0% 50% • 51% of faculty say You. Tube much more convenient than library collections • 26% say You. Tube a little more convenient than library collections • 14% say You. Tube and library collections about same convenience factor • 9% say library collections either a little or much more convenient than You. Tube Metadata Concerns Rank of faculty respondents Extremely concerned Librarians Faculty Moderately concerned Slightly concerned Results What are music faculty members’ perceptions of these tools and how they compare to library catalogs and collections based on • ease of use • convenience Do faculty have specific concerns about • quality of content • quality of descriptive data (metadata) • copyright Do music librarians use this tool in their work? Do music librarians’ perceptions of the issues named above differ from faculty? 33% of faculty respondents post their own content to You. Tube or similar sites, of these • 82% are using You. Tube • 36% are posting to their own website • 15% are using “another site” • 13% are using Vimeo • 5% are using My. Space 25% of uploads are performances, while an additional 6% each are masterclasses, interviews, and recruiting materials 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% Copyright Concerns Very concerned Moderately concerned librarians faculty Slightly concerned Acknowledgments Not at all concerned Much more likely to use library collections 0% Librarians think faculty are Slightly more likely to use library collections 20% 40% Citing You. Tube Use them both equally Slightly more likely to use video sharing websites Faculty say they are Much more likely to use video sharing websites 10% 20% 30% • • While music faculty use You. Tube much more than anticipated, they still value the library. There is opportunity for librarians to provide instruction about how to use You. Tube and library-provided online resources effectively and ethically. Dougan, Kirstin. 2013. "You. Tube Has Changed Everything"? : Music Faculty, Librarians, and Their Use and Perception of You. Tube. College & Research Libraries. Available in preprint. Extremely concerned Librarian Perception vs. Faculty Reality 0% NB: This poster presents only a portion of the research results. Conclusions Not at all concerned Faculty Use of You. Tube Do music faculty use You. Tube • to post their own content? • for teaching? • for research? Video They are Library sharing about the catalogs are websites are same a little easier much easier a little easier to search Convenience Very concerned Research Questions Librarians 25% 197 music schools/departments/conservatories in the U. S. (most NASM accredited, variety of size, degree offerings, and geographic locations) 9, 744 faculty surveyed 2, 156 completed = 22. 5% completion rate 331 music librarians 217 completed = 66% completion rate Faculty Only 6% of faculty have cited it themselves Only 20% don’t let students cite it 55% allow it in some assignments 8. 5% allow it in every paper The author wishes to acknowledge the Research and Publication Committee of the University of Illinois Library, which provided support for the completion of this research; and to extend thanks to the ATLAS Survey staff, especially Dawn Owens-Nicholson.