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

Embedding Library E-Resources…

A Toolkit for BeginnersOLA Super Conference, Feb. 1st, 2008Janice Mutz, Lakehead University

Introduction and background

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

Definition:CMS “a suite of software tools, usually

organized around a class or unit of instruction”

Morris, 16

Features of CMS

Course Outline Calendar Discussion threads Email Grades

Wiki Blogs Chat icon Customized content

A rose by any other name:

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

The growth of course management software and the players: Blackboard/WebCT (Blackboard

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

Implications for Libraries

CMS are being used for on-campus students as a component in courses. Libraries risk being marginalized if we don’t have a presence.

How do students learn in virtual environments? Online tutorials become even more important for these students.

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

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

…a long, long time ago…the 90s!

Print based course packages Snail Mail A “library collection” was sent out Librarians were much more in control… Used exclusively for DE courses

DE …now CEDL

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

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”

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

Have you ever taken a course…?

Become familiar with your institution’s 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…

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

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

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…

Have an example…

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

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.

Tailor it to the course

If faculty just want certain resources, work with them, don’t be inflexible when it comes to your template. It’s better to gain a foothold than nothing at all…

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!

The Toolkit:

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

References/Readings/Neat links

"The 2007 Campus Computing Survey | The Campus Computing Project." 1/28/2008 <http://www.campuscomputing.net/survey-summary/2007-campus-computing-survey>.

ACRL - E-Learning Spaces: Librarians in Course Management Systems." 1/25/2008 <http://www.ala.org/ala/acrlbucket/is/conferencesacrl/discforum2007mwb.cfm>.

"ALA | 2201 Shank." 1/25/2008 <http://www.lita.org/ala/lita/litapublications/ital/2201shank.cfm>.

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

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. <

http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ers0302/rs/ers0302w.pdf.>.

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.

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.html

Contact me at:

[email protected] 807-343-8147 Chancellor Paterson Library

Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario (we’re in the middle of Canada so if you’re driving east or west, chances are you have to go through Thunder Bay!)