Taking MyLibrary to the Course Level

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Taking MyLibrary to the Course Level

• Susan Gibbons
• Director, Digital Library Initiatives
• University of Rochester
• sgibbons_at_library.rochester.edu

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Outline

• Barriers to MyLibrary use
• CoURse Resources System
• Front end
• Back end
• Assessment Outcome

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MyLibrary System Use

• 10 or less adoption rate
• NCSU 1,110 (4) active accounts
• VCU 1,757 (7) active accounts
• VCS 4 of accounts responsible for 60 of
  activity

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Possible Barriers to MyLibrary

• Active involvement of patron
• Create an account
• Designate profile
• Remember to login with each visit
• Privacy issue

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Possible Barriers to MyLibrary

• Silo of resources
• Profiles best suited to needs of professors and
  graduate students

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Possible Barriers to MyLibrary

• Promotes electronic resources only
• Diminishes value of paper collection
• Content and quality, not format, should be the
  determining factor for inclusion

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CoURse Resources System

• http//www.library.rochester.edu

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Assessment Outcomes

• 1,453 resources in system
• 45.7 print
• 45.8 electronic
• 8.5 both
• Over 4,000 associations
• Carry-over from semester to semester

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Assessment Outcomes

• 446 classes (47) had page activated in Fall 2002
• Reserves
• Faculty request

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Assessment Outcomes

• Librarians
• Increases dialog with faculty
• Greater awareness of curriculum
• Students recognize subject specialists
• No HTML encoding knowledge
• Good bibliographic instruction tool

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Assessment Outcomes

• Students (pilot project survey)
• 95 found it useful
• 84 visited more than once
• Average visit of 6 min, 42 seconds
• 98 want page for every course

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Assessment Outcome

• Faculty
• Report improvement in student bibliographies
• Students are talking about the resources
• Easier in-class library instruction
• Discovering new resources

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Future of CoURse Resources

• Open-source code
• Free for non-commercial use
• Written in ColdFusion, with SQL Database and
  Voyager Catalog

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Contact Info

• Susan Gibbons
• Director, Digital Library Initiatives
• University of Rochester
• sgibbons_at_library.rochester.edu
• Presentation available at
• http//www.library.rochester.edu/index.cfm?page60
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• Article in March D-Lib Magazine (www.dlib.org)