Courseware Integration at Innovative Libraries Denyse Seaman, Baylor University Jennifer Fritz, Dartmouth College John Culshaw, University of Colorado at Boulder Jonathan Jiras, Rochester Institute of Technology Barbara Doll, Saint Francis University Innovative Users Group Meeting May, 2006 – Session H4 Denver, Colorado

Baylor University  Courseware: Blackboard 7 Needed a way to integrate BearCat electronic course reserves without having to reauthenticate Libraries tab allows searching of BearCat from within Blackboard Available in every course from within Blackboard

Libraries Tab in Blackboard

Blackboard Course Tools

BearCat Course Reserves

Blackboard Building Block  Code available with no guarantees or warranties  Teaching/Blackboard/Building%20Blocks/ Library%20Reserves/libraryreservesv21.war

Other Integrations  Audio Reserves To Go Ipods Streaming from a QuickTime server Enhanced Syllabus available from Blackboard course  EzProxy, BearCat and Blackboard (BU InfoLinks)

Course Reserves—Enhanced Syllabus

Link to Audio Clips

Dartmouth College  Courseware: Blackboard  Solutions: Refpacks Innovative’s courseware integration product

The old way

Refpacks  Refpack modules are the convenient store, not the supermarket  Seven major categories  Each category has two sections: reference and journal databases  Limited resources (with exceptions)

Refpack set-up  Blackboard programmers create a module template  Bibliographers become module administrators

Module administration

Refpack administration

Editing the Refpack

Preview Refpack

Adding a Refpack

Refpack added

User customization of Refpack

Customized!

Layout customization

Courseware integration product  Catalog search module  Patron account module

CIB set-up  Numeric IP address of your Blackboard server.  Unique patron identifier Millennium patron record and Blackboard user record MUST have a common identifier  Innovative provides two building blocks, your Bb admin installs them

CIB search module

Catalog passed through

Patron record pass through

4:30 TODAY!  First Looks: Integrating Blackboard with Library Services Gail Bonath - Grinnell College DeeAnn Allison -University of Nebraska-Lincoln Dinah Sanders - Innovative

Sakai John Culshaw University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries

What is Sakai?  “Community Source Software”  Collaboration and Learning Environment  Course Management model  Also supports research collaboration

Who is Sakai?  Core Schools (Michigan, Indiana, MIT, Stanford)  Sakai Educational Partners Program  Sakai Commercial Affiliates

Sakai Partners + Innovative  Carleton College  Dartmouth College  Northeastern University  Ohio State University  University of Colorado at Boulder  University of Nebraska  and more…

What to do with Sakai?  Institutions are in a variety of stages of exploration and implementation  Lots of pilots in Fall 2005 and Spring 2006  Fullest implementation at core schools  Many sites running legacy CMS systems concurrently with Sakai pilot or production services

Sakai at Colorado  Pilot in Fall 2005  Campus made decision to continue to monitor Sakai progress but opted to renew commitment to WebCT as primary CMS

Sakaibrary  Indiana and Michigan  18-month project to integrate access to library licensed digital content within Sakai

Sakai: What’s Next  Many sites monitoring growth of the community and associated applications  Opportunities for sites with appropriate resources to help build the Sakai toolset

Rochester Institute of Technology  Courseware: Desire2Learn  Solution – Library Resources Link Server Similar in concept to an OpenURL Link Server Modular, ColdFusion application Uses III Oracle Interface Integrates library resources, contact information, and course reserves. Resources are specific to the course, program, and/or academic department. Available by default in every course and from every screen within Desire2Learn

Library Website Library Resources Link Server Desire2Learn CMS III ILS

Course Number Role Desire2Learn CMS III ILS Library Website Library Resources Link Server

Course Number III Oracle Interface Desire2Learn CMS III ILS Library Website Role Library Resources Link Server

Course Number III Oracle Interface Dynamically Generated Webpage Desire2Learn CMS III ILS Library Website Role Library Resources Link Server

Desire2Learn CMS III ILS Course Number III Oracle Interface Links to Reserves Dynamically Generated Webpage Links to Resources Library Website Role Library Resources Link Server

Rochester Institute of Technology

Additional Tabs

Enhancements  Use ERM Resource Records.  Special Resources for Graduate Students.  Integrate with other courseware systems.  Promote it as a service for professor authored course pages independent of the campus courseware application.  Make it a database driven application.

Rochester Institute of Technology More information:  Flash video summary (6 minutes)  PDF handout  Screen shots  Live URLs  Sample code  Web accessible recorded presentations

Saint Francis University Pasquerilla Library

The Instructional Technology Specialist works closely with the library staff. A link to the library is provided on the main WebCT screen as an aid to patrons. WebCT – Courseware used at Saint Francis University

When requested by instructors, a page is created that is linked from the course page within WebCT. Display of a Course to Saint Francis University Students

The Library Page specifically created for use in WebCT courses

What’s on the page?  Link to Library web OPAC  Link to course reserves for the course 39  Link to discipline specific subject guides  Feed of library blog  Contact information of various library departments

Newer pages have more links – we are still promoting the idea

Link takes user to the reserve materials for this course

Questions for anyone on the panel  Denyse Seaman, Baylor University  Jennifer Fritz, Dartmouth College  Jonathan Jiras, Rochester Institute of Technology  John Culshaw, University of Colorado at Boulder  Barbara Doll, Saint Francis University

Thank you!!!