The Kalmanovitz Library and The Center for Knowledge Management University of California, San Francisco August 2, 2004 Intersections between Course Management Tools and Library Resources Gail Persily
The Kalmanovitz Library and the Center for Knowledge Management Outline Overview of issues Current landscape Key issues Case studies One-stop shopping – UCSD, UCB Integration of resources Standards – UCLA System interfaces – CDL/UCSF Conclusion/Discussion
The Kalmanovitz Library and the Center for Knowledge Management Current Landscape Course Management Systems (CMS) aka LMS, LCMS Electronic Reserves Digital repositories Repositories of learning objects IMS Digital Repositories Interoperability Framework Digital collections, in general Locally created Licensed collections Standards –IMS, SCORM
The Kalmanovitz Library and the Center for Knowledge Management Conceptual Landscape Users students, faculty, staff, public Tools CMS, Weblogs, citation managers, file managers Content digital library, publisher sites, image databases
The Kalmanovitz Library and the Center for Knowledge Management Key issues, drivers Search services, discoverability Dynamic objects Information asset Learning object Persistent identifiers Archiving & preservation Avoiding duplicate content purchasing Copyright, privacy (FERPA, HIPAA, TEACH) AuthN & AuthZ Training & support
The Kalmanovitz Library and the Center for Knowledge Management Use cases Instructor wants to include seamless links within her course to: e-reserves, search tools, and library assistance on searching Faculty wants to use resources from digital repositories to build a course Librarian wants to ensure that digital rights, copyright and fair use are managed Student wants to be able to access valuable resources discovered through class for use in the future
The Kalmanovitz Library and the Center for Knowledge Management Current examples One-stop shopping Resource integration
The Kalmanovitz Library and the Center for Knowledge Management UCBerkeley - getting a foot in the door CourseWeb system organizes basic course info in one place Media Services Librarian - Gary Handman - worked to include library resources in this space Demo - schedule.berkeley.edu
The Kalmanovitz Library and the Center for Knowledge Management UCB lessons Key ingredient: relationships between library and educational technology staff Media librarian with track record Campus web services manager interested in service integration Campus Ed Tech Committee Faculty, librarian, IT, ETS staff Strategy to take a first step and continue to build on it
The Kalmanovitz Library and the Center for Knowledge Management UCSD Initial goal: bring together in one place all instructional materials for each course Course reserves, textbooks and course web sites Started as a brochure and progressed to website Collaboration between Instructional WWW Development Center Library Registrar
The Kalmanovitz Library and the Center for Knowledge Management Demo courses.ucsd.edu studentlink.ucsd.edu
The Kalmanovitz Library and the Center for Knowledge Management UCSD lessons Lack of standards - requires dedicated champions Course listings downloaded using 3rd party Sybase connector tool Course web sites - added manually Reserves info - XML extract Query bookstore’s web site for booklist Next steps Adding Top 5 Library Resources in course subject area (SAGE Guides)
The Kalmanovitz Library and the Center for Knowledge Management UCLA - Content Integration Digital collections that allow user to export SCORM objects and html for use with CMS Rat Spinal Cord Image Archive - RATS CIA Demo
The Kalmanovitz Library and the Center for Knowledge Management CDL/UCSF - Tool Integration Linking to published literature within courses Saving citations using SFX Demo
The Kalmanovitz Library and the Center for Knowledge Management CDL/UCSF Next steps Demonstrate to faculty and ed tech colleagues to determine interest Develop user interface Test and implement at UCSF and other campuses
The Kalmanovitz Library and the Center for Knowledge Management Conclusions Forge partnerships at the campus level Higher level collaborations beginning IMS/CNI white paper Standards and broad initiatives needed to take us to the next level Grass roots collaborations still needed to drive us forward
The Kalmanovitz Library and the Center for Knowledge Management Discussion What do you want to see happen at your campus? What are barriers to collaboration? What can librarians do to help ed tech, faculty, students? What can ed tech people do to help librarians? What do campus administrators need to know?