Capturing Library Resource Training into a Webbased Tutorial from WebCT courseware

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Capturing Library Resource Training into a
Web-based Tutorial from WebCT courseware

• Peter Shipman
• Robert B. Greenblatt, M.D. Library
• Medical College of Georgia

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Premise

• How to provide information about Library
  resources and impart library skills at point of
  need?

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Strategies to transmit information

• Library orientations
• Specialized library classes
• Reference desk assistance
• Library web page tutorials
• Teaching within the curriculum
• Chat reference
• AvantGo / handheld

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Trends bricks v. clicks / hybrids

• Journal content online (80 per cent)
• Interest in more distance education
• WebCT courseware at liaison schools
• Peak resource use common when library is closed
• LIBQUAL
• Google / federated searching

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Library orientation skills forgotten

• Access to resources and proxy server
• Searching MEDLINE / CINAHL
• Document delivery strategies

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WebCT point of locus

• Success when integrating skills within the
  curriculum
• Wider distribution option was to link skills to
  WebCT

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Visual Instructional Design (VID)

• VID alerted faculty to Agility and Apreso
  (similar products)
• Shipman invited to record orientation on Agility

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Apreso process

• Create PPT with screen shots
• Write script to accompany PPT
• Record voiceover with PPT on Apreso and save
• Presentation placed on server
• Faculty link to presentation within WebCT

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Link in WebCT

• Feedback is positive, but anecdotal difficult
  to measure
• Future?
• Modules for teaching within the curriculum
• Continuing education modules

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Thank you.

• Peter Shipman
• pshipman_at_mail.mcg.edu