Hi everybody. I'm Kimberly Wilson- St. Clair, University studies librarian and assistant professor at Portland State University Library. I'm delighted to be here at the international group of ExLibris users. I've always wanted to present at this conference and now I can because I'm zooming in. So let's get started. For some reason, my presentation is not showing up, but here it is. Okay, let's go ahead and get started. I can see that this is a teaching moment all around. So my presentation, Primo's Newspaper Search, Identifying Authentic News Articles in the 21st Century. This presentation is in honor and memory. The first people of Clackamas, and Milwaukee.  And I've made a small donation to the American Indian College Fund. Portland State University Library is a member of the Orbis Cascade Alliance. We are a consortium of academic libraries in the Pacific Northwest that we are 39 library strong. We include public academic libraries, Community College Libraries, small college libraries like Reed College, as well as to American Research Libraries. The University of Washington and the University of Oregon. Portland State University is a unique academic public library in this center of downtown Portland, Oregon. We have, as the winter term 2021, we were 21,426 students Strong. Our ethnic minorities are probably the largest in the state in terms of our public academic universities. With that, we come in at 36.3%, and of course we are dominantly white, 53.1%. I'd certainly like to see the international number come up again. I do provide outreach and instruction for international students and visiting scholars as well. Portland State University undergraduates, mainly our freshmen and transfer students, identify as first-generation students, meaning that their parents had no college or some college experience. First-time freshmen, 28.9% of our undergraduate students. And then seven you a whopping 71.1% new transfers for 2021. The reason we have such a strong transfer population is due to our collaborative agreements with the community college system in clock, and it's counting melanoma County and Washington County. As the university's studies librarian, I focus on the first-year experience. I, I, I, my practice involves learning more about first-generation students. And for this very unique core curriculum, It's an interdisciplinary, goal-driven core curriculum with a focus on inquiry, critical thinking, and effective communication. It's quite a bit of current problem-solving going on in university studies. Two of the goals include a diversity equity and social justice, as well as community, agency and ethics. And you can see by those keywords what a care ethics is underlies as a foundation for all of university studies. Both freshmen and sophomores are pointed up mentors for the year. That's that's an exciting part of the program in terms of retention and college success. And then finally, the senior capstone project. This is where seniors commit to serving the community, either locally or globally or both. So the university studies and they approach to reference and instruction and reference and forms to my role as the primo lead. And I was appointed this position in September of 2014 because I wanted to be an advocate for students too, who come to the system without any library instruction or having visited the reference desk. Basically, students come into the system and they have a sense of how to navigate it. Because in many ways it's designed like an e-commerce site. It's based on faceted navigation, not library as place. So a little bit about my background in Primo. I'm the chair of the primo design group. We meet every month. Pretty much. I report to the library scene. I hold quarterly Primo forums with all staff for feedback on changes. And believe me, I get negative feedback as most of you who are in this position I'm sure have experienced. I'm also a member of the alliance discovery and user experience committee. We call ourselves ducts. And for the past two years, a member of the alliance Primo really standing testing group, as well as for the past few years, the alliance Primo enhancements project screw. So Primo release May 2018, Newspaper Source scope. The newspaper search scope was launched. And I must say that I was mad an advocate for this feature. I was pretty adamant about maintaining the integrity of faceted navigation. And this presentation. I'm here to say I'm here to my shoe metaphorically. Although burner will Herzog, good ETA ship shoe at Japanese, the most fabulous restaurant that I've ever been to. And so I thought it should mention it here. Anyway. Werner Herzog Eats issue, check it out. I called Classic. And I'm here to say we did launch newspaper search June of 2021. And this is my pedagogical journey. This is how I've been thinking about teaching students, primarily freshmen and sophomores. So one of the big drivers and earth shaking pieces of news came from the MLA report. And of course, we all had a pretty good idea that this was what was happening, but to have it justified by Robert Muller, the third was pretty important for the history of our country. The Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election and sweeping and systematic fashion. Evidence of Russian government operations began to surface in mid 2016. In June, the Democratic National Committee and it's Cyber Response Team publicly announced that Russian hackers had compromised it's computer network releases of hacked and materials. Hacks that public reporting soon attributed to the Russian government began that same month. Additional releases followed in July through the organization WikiLeaks, with further releases in October and November. And of course, the stellar court came out in March of 2019. And of course, I'm not going to get into a long lecture about fake news and the advent of fake news. And of course, propaganda has been around for as long as human nature has been around. So what IS taken back by the prevalence of it during the 2016 election and, and I was both heartened and disheartened by the, the excellent book, The Death of truth by Michio Kaku Tawney, the former New York Times book editor. Here's a statement from her book. While public trust in the media declined in the new millennium, part of a growing mistrust of institutional gatekeepers, as well as a concerted effort by the right-wing to discredit the mainstream press. More and more people started getting their news through Facebook, Twitter, and other online sources. By 2017, two-thirds of Americans said they got at least some of their news through social media. This reliance on family and friends and Facebook and Twitter for news, however, would feed the ravenous monster of fake news. I can put this in a place where I can see my slides. Okay. I'm not a PowerPoint expert by any means. So thank you for your patience. So drivers for my change of my change in my pedagogy, you know, I see teaching as a practice. My research and my practice is my practice. And what are the drivers that brought me to this point of proposing, launching newspapers, newspapers search in our life, Primo. Well, you know, the premise of my thinking. Thinking is always this PSU library as place is, is part of who we still are to some extent. Mainly discovery has moved to anytime, anywhere by resource type in Primo and of course, I, one of my mentors, Claudia, URL is that if we just had a goal button, we could just press it and, and our students, faculty and staff, we'd get what they need. But we can't afford a gold button, but we can't, but we can't teach them how to use Primo as a research starting point for discovery of what they need for their resource gathering assignments. Which could be a research paper and annotated bibliography or group presentation. And the summer of 2019, my colleague, Amy sample. Our students success librarian and ISS part of the university, these studies. This is an Open Access tutorial called search for resources tutorial with the focus on the part of it called search for articles. We examined Cixi answer sheets wherein sophomore students had to find and evaluate articles, one peer reviewed article, and one news article. And what we found was 98% of the students found relevant resources for their topics. However, only 68% could accurately identify a peer reviewed article and 83 percent identified a news article accurately. So this, this, these findings support one of the initial arguments for newspapers search. But in regards to providing access, easier access to scholarly articles and peer reviewed articles, I see that 60 percent is somewhat dismal, but at the same time this, but this is a pre assignment so students may or may not have had any exposure to peer review at all before this tutorial. And, and so that in some ways proves the efficacy of them using this than struct or seeing their results, and then making decisions. And in terms of how to move forward with instruction, including, including a librarian instructor in the classroom. But again, this is an assessment. And so the 83 percent really bother me. I would like to see that over 90 percent, I think that our high school seniors shouldn't be able to identify a thousand word article, investigate of investigative fact check reporting in the New York Times or the oogonia and, or the Willamette Week. And be able to identify a newspaper article as something different from a website or a blog or a post on social media. Excuse me. Okay. So I think I need to go back here one so the other driver for me was reading this, I think a seminal report by the Stanford History Education Group called Educating for misunderstanding. I highly recommend it's 21 pages long. Basically, they, they looked at how librarians teach about misinformation, especially in regards to journalism. And contrast to how fact-checkers verify the viability of a newspaper article, the truth of a newspaper article. And they found that are crap test as debunk. So I've let the crap test go. I do like what they say about the.coms in all of our US major dailies or a.com, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, and The Washington Post. And it's about page really to spend page. And how do you corroborate what you have read on the about page? Certainly lateral reading is a way to use the entire web as a way to evaluate a website or to a two, or a newspaper article. And I certainly find this to be important. And I have a story about that five times I'll tell it. So they make three other points. Even if a link on a website leads to a reliable resource, be sure to read the content in order to see if it supports the premise of the website or not. So it's a kind of cooperation in that regard. And don't judge your website by its cover. A website may look professional. Yeah, it is easy to manufacture respectability, especially with how slick websites are today. And then check Wikipedia again, this is a moment where I eat my shoe. Take another bite. Because I debunked Wikipedia at the beginning of my freshman and sophomore teaching career in 2011. And now I'm refer students to Wikipedia all of the time as a research starting point, a way to check their resources and so forth. Again, they can't cite it in a paper or in an annotated bibliography, which is probably our most popular assignment at the freshman, sophomore levels, but certainly Wikipedia as a place for them to know. And of course, lateral reading. And this is a video, I posted it in the presentation for your review, your viewing pleasure another time. But I certainly have let go the crap test and I now teach lateral reading when I'm with students or asynchronously in their lib guides. I have a link to this video and I encourage their mentors to show it during mentor sessions, for their professors to show it during class time, or to assign it. The software I mess up my presentation. Okay, so ProQuest us major dailies. Now this is X leveraged loans, ProQuest. The advanced search default feel in our instances of ProQuest databases is anywhere except full text and OFT. That this search includes the full bibliographic record, but does not include a search of the full text. Well. The anywhere Search is the default that I want students to go to in this data database. And it's the second tab, it's the second choice. So they would have to drop down menu to get to it. And that's actually too many steps for a freshman or a sophomore. Not only that, they'd have to go to the left hand column to that all important real estate and choose Newspapers rather than blogs or websites. So there are two strikes there, again, taking them into us major dailies from my perspective, I'd much rather our students start through Primo as their research starting point to discover newspaper articles. So here's my example keyword phrase climate change, everybody's problem retrieves 100,954 newspaper articles with the anywhere a search and only 24,235 results with the NO FTE search. And of course, there was the CDI migration in September 2020. And all of us know the size of these results sets, their outstanding. And the other interesting part about the CD migration is that real testing didn't really begin until we launched. And so here's an example of how newspaper search, enabling news. The newspapers search makes a difference for our users. The undifferentiated CDI search syria, my, one of my keywords for testing between 517,794 results, you click on expand my results and you get over a million results. The CDI with newspaper search enable keyword again, Syria, 332,798 results. Expand my results. 512,919 results. So you can see just from those numbers, dramatic change and the retrieval set without applying any filters. And then here we are, resource type, Primo Analytics, resource type discovery in Primo. And note how peer reviewed journals Baird well, even during remote teaching, when we had fewer resource gathering assignments within our classes, articles, most of the readings were prescribed. Articles. Not, not bad. And of course, students are going to gravitate towards articles, especially if they don't know what peer review means. And then the newspaper articles numbers, I find those dismal, really, really low. So get, that begs again this idea of how do we get students to newspaper articles when they use Primo as our research starting point. And then of course, I'm a girl, I'm guilty of this as the next person I subscribe to The New York Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times. And shamelessly, I will plug counter punch plus my, my husband as the editor and chief of counter punch setup and I, I do have to subscribe now because they've gone completely online. And you go and this is not as attractive as that print newspaper that I used to pick up off the driveway every day or flipping through it and smelling the ink and the tactile sensations of print newspaper. And I still will go out and buy my Sunday New York Times. But again, you see what the coast looks like in the morning and walk to the LA times, my new favorite us daily newspaper. That looks like. And if I share any of these articles, the person has to get through a paywall if they're not a subscriber. And the last thing we want is for our students to hit paywalls. That is really the less we're looking for 0 cost. Anyway, we can, for our students. Higher education should be affordable and should not, The class of higher education should not be on the backs of our students. Should not be there label it should be ours. So in FMI soapbox and the action, we went ahead and launched newspaper search in Primo, June 2021. And I've had good comments and feedback from our faculty. I haven't had much feedback from our students. However, internally, our staff and faculty have liked it. I haven't had any rumblings about it and increment, I know negative feedback and the head of our collections development, Jill Emory actually said this isn't really going to help our students and faculty across the university. With that said, here's what our feature or newspaper search looks like. And we're featuring the US major dailies, the New York Times historical file. And as of May to October, we will be featuring 850 to the president of our local newspaper or a goniometer. And just to give you a quick look at it, we'll do a search. And I do apologize for my Zoom PowerPoint skills and all these cursors, Sarah or climate change keyword. And we run the search. We can see the instance of newspapers search on the left under resource type show more newspaper search. Then of course, at the bottom of the page. And by the way, newspaper search is it is the default in B0 and we are not migrating to VE until June of 2022. So this is a change that we hope to see, some changes by the end of this year. And so I will plug in my computer at this point so I don't lose. This recording. Will move here. And here you can see our features moving myself around against musical images. And from there we'll go back to the presentation. Here's my bibliography. Again, I highly recommend the Stanford report, which you'd like to see more of my presentations about. Primo. I have linked to my selected works here. And I don't know if I mentioned in the beginning that my pronouns are she, her and hers. So I hope you've questions or thoughts. Please address me in that way. Thank you for your time and I look forward to seeing you at 450 AM on Wednesday for questions and answers.