Embedding Library EResources

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Embedding Library E-Resources

• A Toolkit for Beginners
• OLA Super Conference, Feb. 1st, 2008
• Janice Mutz, Lakehead University

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Introduction and background

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

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DefinitionCMS

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

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Features of CMS

• Course Outline
• Calendar
• Discussion threads
• Email
• Grades

• Wiki
• Blogs
• Chat icon
• Customized content

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A rose by any other name

• Electronic courseware
• Course Management Systems (CMS)
• Collaborative Learning Environments
• Virtual Learning Environments

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The growth of course management software and the
players

• Blackboard/WebCT (Blackboard purchased WebCT in
  2006)
• Angel
• Moodle (open source, free!)
• Sakai (free)
• Desire2Learn

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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DE now CEDL

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Have an example

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

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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.

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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

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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!

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The Toolkit

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

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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.

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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 [phone]
  Fax [phone] 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

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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..

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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.

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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!)