Librarians Using Courseware: What a “Novel” Idea

Patricia C. Porcaro, Head of Reader Services

Eileen M. Cravedi, Access Services LibrarianCopyright Patty Porcaro & Eileen Cravedi, 2003. This work is the intellectual property of the authors. Permission is granted for this material to be shared for non-commercial, educational purposes, provided that this copyright statement appears on the reproduced materials and notice is given that the copying is by permission of the author. To disseminate otherwise or to republish requires written permission from the author.

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College of the Holy Cross

Strictly undergraduate liberal arts (no distance education)

2800 enrollment236 (F/T) Faculty

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Electronic Reserves at Holy Cross

ERes by Docutek Information Systems, Inc.

Pilot program Spring 2001 - 13 facultyOffered to all Faculty Fall 2001174 Faculty accounts to date

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Reserves Primer

Copyright & Fair Use# CopiesElectronic Reserves

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Opportunity for Education

Seminar(s) for facultyReserve Policies and ProceduresConference for regional librarians

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ERes Policy considerations

Printing versus copying - print management

$$ Copyright fees Informal survey on discussion list

~$2000/semester Responsibility for acquiring permission

(centralized or faculty responsibility)Training

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Overlap with Blackboard

ERes was purchased before BbCommunication module of ERes

Discussion Board Chat Room

AnnouncementsStatistics - page & document hits

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Different than Blackboard

Copyright compliance Copyright statement Password protected (Bb=authenticated

user) Archived during off-semester

Click-through permission with CCC Tracking - Fair use, permission granted,

permission denied “Reveal pending permission”

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Bringing ERes and Bb together

Bb course automatically created via information passed from SIS

Students authenticated within BbLink from Bb to ERes - need to

market No need for additional password Still need to display Copyright notice

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Working Together/Options

ERes and Bb work well togetherSome overlap, but some uniquenessFaculty like options (presentation @

NERCOMP ‘02 by Jennifer & Mary) Technical expertise in maintaining web pages

compared to CMS pages Netscape Composer (Dreamweaver, HTML) -

no special language or extra software needed

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BlackBoard Comes to Campus

History of good relationship between IT and Library

Early Involvement in Planning ProcessLibrary Services TabPilot Project for Washington Interns Course Shell for Research Process

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Problems

Communication (non-faculty)Restraints of ITS PoliciesLack of educational design examples

for implementation (Bentley)No user statistics for Library Services

TabCannot use databases in Bb off

campus network

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Improvements

Manual registration after add/dropStatistics available with V 6Archive and “Restore” V 6

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Why Librarians & Courseware

Mission of LibraryInstructional Responsibilities

Increased Plethora of Electronic Resources No Common Interface Creation of help sheets

Vested Interest in Promoting Resources

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Information Literacy Opportunities

Charged with disseminating and managing content

Librarians Create Course Pages (see MIT)Value Added Information BrokersInformation Literacy is a set of abilities

requiring individuals to “recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information.”

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What Librarians are Doing with CMS

Customizing electronic resources for faculty course pages

Adding pathfinders and handouts Teaching Information Literacy courses Lobbying for an “Ask-a-Librarian” button on

course shellTraining faculty to use coursewareEditing and creating course pages for faculty

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Trends Merging electronic reserves and CMS

systems - one stop shoppingSingle authentication possibilities for a

multitude of services Integration with 3rd party systems (library

systems, printing)Attention being paid to copyright issues

Pervasiveness of legislation…. Examples, PATRIOT Act, “Sonny Bono”

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Trends, cont.

More “how-to” pedagogical issues surfacing Different learning styles Supports collaborative learning Personalized learning experiences (shy, more

time to compose, etc.)Capacity to add multi-media materials will

improveWho owns the intellectual property?

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Successes/ Lessons Learned

Successful implementation of courseware in a library setting ERes BlackBoard

Get and Stay involved in information technology committees/concerns

Keep communication open with IT

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Discussion

Q & A

THANKS!!!