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Title: Embedding Library EResources


1
Embedding Library E-Resources
  • A Toolkit for Beginners
  • OLA Super Conference, Feb. 1st, 2008
  • Janice Mutz, Lakehead University

2
Introduction and background
  • Definition/content of CMS
  • Implications for libraries
  • How can libraries use CMS
  • Macro vs. micro
  • My experience
  • Readings and other stuff

3
DefinitionCMS
  • a suite of software tools, usually organized
    around a class or unit of instruction
  • Morris, 16

4
Features of CMS
  • Course Outline
  • Calendar
  • Discussion threads
  • Email
  • Grades
  • Wiki
  • Blogs
  • Chat icon
  • Customized content

5
A rose by any other name
  • Electronic courseware
  • Course Management Systems (CMS)
  • Collaborative Learning Environments
  • Virtual Learning Environments

6
The growth of course management software and the
players
  • Blackboard/WebCT (Blackboard purchased WebCT in
    2006)
  • Angel
  • Moodle (open source, free!)
  • Sakai (free)
  • Desire2Learn

7
Implications for Libraries
  • CMS are being used for on-campus students as a
    component in courses. Libraries risk being
    marginalized if we dont have a presence.
  • How do students learn in virtual environments?
    Online tutorials become even more important for
    these students.

8
How can we use CMS?
  • Promote the Library and its services, and
    especially e-resources
  • Interact directly with the students either in a
    teaching or advisory mode
  • Use the cms for assessment and feedback

9
Macro and Micro
  • Links to OPACs and Journal Indexes
  • Contact Info (email/phone/chat)
  • Links to subject guides
  • Embedding a subject librarian in the course for
    online chats and consultations
  • Specific guides for specific course assignments
  • Information literacy modules and/or quizzes

10
a long, long time agothe 90s!
  • Print based course packages
  • Snail Mail
  • A library collection was sent out
  • Librarians were much more in control
  • Used exclusively for DE courses

11
DE now CEDL
  • Distance Education department was renamed
    Continuing Education and Distributed Learning to
    reflect a broader scope.

12
Growth of WebCT at Lakehead
  • All nursing courses have a WebCT component.
  • All courses at the new Orillia campus have a
    WebCT component.
  • CEDL holds frequent workshops to encourage
    faculty to Create a WebCT Site for your Course

13
The present environment
  • Online courseware has eliminated or greatly
    reduced print-based courses
  • CMS module can be part of a f2f course on campus
  • Access to library e-resources 24/7 diminishes our
    role?
  • Self-contained universe of the WebCT course

14
Have you ever taken a course?
  • Become familiar with your institutions course
    management system through a guest account or
  • take a course! Even a 6 week Education
    Institute course will allow for insight into the
    vagaries of this type of learning

15
How do we ensure the Library is included?
  • Outreach to specific instructors
  • Collaborate with the courseware dept.
  • Target heavy library users
  • Have an example attached to your email
  • Make it easy with an online form
  • Tailor it to the course

16
Outreach tips
  • Email target groups
  • Scan course offerings and choose ones which are a
    bit out of the ordinary and specific e-resources
    are necessary

17
Collaborate with courseware developers/tech
support
  • Ask to be included in presentations
  • Take a workshop from them on course design or
    quiz design
  • Ask for a list of instructors each term at
    Lakehead, a lot of the WebCT courses are taught
    by contract lecturers

18
Have an example
  • When you send an email pitching the idea, send an
    attachment of what your link will look like

19
Make it easy
  • to incorporate in the course. Provide a link to
    an online form where there is a choice of common
    content, eg. journal indexes, list of specific
    e-journals, etc.

20
Tailor it to the course
  • If faculty just want certain resources, work with
    them, dont be inflexible when it comes to your
    template. Its better to gain a foothold than
    nothing at all

21
Social Software?
  • Embedding chat icons, Meebo, askON?
  • Using SurveyMonkey to find out what users think?
  • RSS feeds to new books, new online tutorials,
    etc.
  • Use it where it will work, not just because you
    can!

22
The Toolkit
  • Email to faculty
  • Online Form
  • Checklist of items to include
  • Social software think before attaching!

23
References/Readings/Neat links
  • "The 2007 Campus Computing Survey The Campus
    Computing Project." 1/28/2008 mputing.net/survey-summary/2007-campus-computing-s
    urvey.
  • ACRL - E-Learning Spaces Librarians in Course
    Management Systems." 1/25/2008 /ala/acrlbucket/is/conferencesacrl/discforum2007mw
    b.cfm.
  • "ALA 2201 Shank." 1/25/2008 /ala/lita/litapublications/ital/2201shank.cfm.

24
And more
  • Bruning, Roger, Ed., Christy A. Horn Ed., and
    Lisa M. PytlikZillig Ed. Web-Based Learning What
    do we Know? Where do we Go? Nebraska Symposium on
    Information Technology in Education (1st,
    Lincoln, Nebraska, may 15-17, 2002). Information
    Age Publishing, 80 Mason St., P.O. Box 4967,
    Greenwich, CT 06831 (paperback
    ISBN-1-59311-002-2, 31.95 hardcover
    ISBN-1-59311-003-0, 62.25). Tel 203-661-7602
    Fax 203-661-7952 Web site http//www.infoagepub
    .com e-mail infoa(TRUNCATED), 2003.
  • Cox, Christopher. "Becoming Part of the Course."
    College Research Libraries News 63.1 (2002)
    11.
  • George, Julie, and Kari Martin. "Forging the
    Library Courseware Link." College Research
    Libraries News 65.10 (2004) 594-613.
  • Gibbons, Susan. "Course-Management Systems."
    Library Technology Reports 41.3 3 (2005) 7-11

25

And still more
  • ---. "Integration of Libraries and
    Course-Management Systems." Library Technology
    Reports 41.3 3 (2005) 12-20.
  • ---. "Strategies for the Library CMS Integration
    Barriers." Library Technology Reports 41.3 3
    (2005) 24-32.
  • Jackson, Pamela Alexondra. "Integrating
    Information Literacy into Blackboard Building
    Campus Partnerships for Successful Student
    Learning." Journal of Academic Librarianship
    33.4 4 (2007) 454-61.
  • Markgraf, Jill S. "Collaboration between
    Distance Education Faculty and the Library One
    Size does Not Fit all." Journal of Library
    Administration 37.3 (2002) 451.
  • ---. "Librarian Participation in the Online
    Classroom." Internet Reference Service Quarterly
    9.1 (2004) 5-19.
  • Morgan, G. "Faculty use of course management
    systems." 2003. y/pdf/ers0302/rs/ers0302w.pdf..

26
For your interest
  • Create then Integrate Teaching Undergraduate
    Research Skills Using WebCT, an Education
    Institute Audio Conference with Sarah Fedko and
    Heather Berringer, Tuesday, March 11, 2008.

27
Integrating Library Services Into a Learning
Management System (one day conference)
  • When Friday, April 18, 2008
  • Where Cooper Hall, The College at Brockport SUNY
    NY
  • The goal of this conference is to provide
    practical ways to integrate library services into
    learning management systems. A panel of experts
    will describe their knowledge and information
    technology skills with participants.  Additional
    presentations will highlight ways in which
    libraries have incorporated library information,
    databases, tutorials, and assessment instruments
    into their learning management systems. The
    conference will also provide participants a
    "hands-on" view of other institutions work and
    examples that they can take back to their
    respective
  • Website http//www.brockport.edu/lib2lms/index.ht
    ml

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Contact me at
  • jmutz_at_lakeheadu.ca
  • 807-343-8147
  • Chancellor Paterson Library
  • Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario (were
    in the middle of Canada so if youre driving east
    or west, chances are you have to go through
    Thunder Bay!)
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