A Scalable Approach to Providing Course-based Access to Library Resources
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The document describes a scalable approach developed by NCSU Libraries called "Course Views" to provide library resources customized for courses. Course Views generates a web page for every course using the course identification number that distills relevant library tools and resources. Librarians can further customize the content for specific courses. The system was integrated into the university's learning management systems and library website to increase access. Feedback found it needed to provide more information simply.
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A Scalable Approach to Providing Course-based Access to Library Resources
- 1. A Scalable Approach to Providing Course-based Access to Library Resources Tito Sierra, Jason Casden, and Kim Duckett NCSU Libraries DLF Fall Forum 2008 November 13, 2008
- 2. Outline Background Introducing “Course Views” Demo Technical Implementation Usage Lessons Learned
- 3. Background
- 4. Our Environment Large institution (30,000+ students) Many courses (6000+ courses) Mixed LMS Environment Blackboard Vista Moodle WolfWare (legacy filesystem solution)
- 5. Library Course Pages Hand-authored course guides Assignment focused Do not represent the range of stuff the library has to offer
- 6. Library Course Pages Hand-authored course guides Assignment focused Do not represent the range of stuff the library has to offer
- 9. What is Course Views? A distillation of the most student-centric stuff the library has to offer.
- 11. Course Views Web application branded Library Tools Homegrown, written in PHP Product launched August 2008
- 12. Goals
- 13. Goals A Course View for every course
- 14. Goals A Course View for every course A scalable and sustainable system for library course content delivery
- 15. Goals A Course View for every course A scalable and sustainable system for library course content delivery Library content customized as much as possible to the course
- 16. Demo
- 21. Course Identifiers NCSU example: ENG 101 ‘ ENG’ = curriculum code ‘ 101’ = course number ‘ ENG 101’ = full course identifier
- 22. Value of Standard Identifiers The use of standardized course identifiers (Ex: ENG 101 ) enabled simplified integration with a variety of external applications. Helps with collaboration.
- 23. A Course View for Every Course No dependency on staff to create pages Course Views can generate a course page for any known curricula Librarians may further refine the content that appears for a particular course
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- 32. Cascading Selection Course level: ENG 101 Kawanna
- 33. English 101
- 34. Cascading Selection Course level: ENG 333 Kim
- 35. English 333
- 36. Cascading Selection Curriculum level: ENG Cindy
- 38. Integration
- 39. Integration Points Blackboard Vista Moodle WolfWare Library Website
- 40. Blackboard Vista
- 41. Blackboard Vista
- 42. Moodle
- 43. Moodle
- 44. WolfWare
- 45. WolfWare
- 46. QuickSearch
- 47. QuickSearch
- 48. Library Homepage
- 49. Library Homepage
- 50. Usage
- 55. Lessons Learned
- 56. Collaboration is Key Subject specialist librarians (!) Campus partners Students Faculty
- 57. Disciplinary Differences So far we have observed much more usage in humanities and social science disciplines, and less from science and engineering.
- 58. Focus Group Feedback Make it simpler, but with more information.
- 59. Thanks! Tito Sierra Associate Head for Digital Library Development North Carolina State University [email_address] Jason Casden Digital Technologies Development Librarian North Carolina State University [email_address] Kim Duckett Principal Librarian for Digital Technologies and Learning North Carolina State University [email_address]
- 60. More Information Library Tools: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/course Course Views Project: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/dli/projects/courseviews
Editor's Notes
- #8: These pages are usually made at the request of faculty or at the initiative of the librarian who is going to provide library instruction. But such hand-authoring and customization takes a lot of time and energy. They provide a lot of value, but it’s hard to make them scale up to reach more students. Hence only a limited number of pages that can be made or maintained. Since librarians don’t have contact with every course on campus, more courses don’t have course pages than those that do.
- #26: An actual “Library Course Tools” page. The “Library Course View” box is the portal web page that a student would be referred to through a learning management system or a search. This is a distilled set of entry-points to library content, designed from a course-centric perspective. This portal is a collection of widgets which access information resources, library services and library tools.
- #27: The widgets are basically bits of web content. Some widgets contain static content, while some are dynamic or customizable. These widgets are reusable in other contexts, such as Moodle. In fact, the Library Course Tools system and the Widget system are completely distinct from each other, and we hope to use the Widget System for other kinds of content in the future.