1. River Campus Libraries Location, Location, Location … Inserting Library Resources into the Course Syllabus Stephanie Frontz, University of Rochester ARLIS/NA Annual Meeting Houston, April 3, 2005 sfrontz@library.rochester.edu

2. Location, location, location…  CoURse Resources, a relational database of major library resources and course offerings  Collaboration between faculty and librarians  What about WebCT? Relationships with other UR IT departments  Usability Testing  Formerly used Subject Guides…students didn’t think of themselves as “art historians”, etc.

3. UR Homepage

4. Library Homepage

5. Usability findings  Students cannot find articles  Students overwhelmed with database names, contents, and search protocols  Students insist on search simplicity  Library needs to eliminate the complexity of information retrieval  Technologies exist to make it simpler  Politics exist to make it complex  Be there, where the students are…connect to Course Syllabus

6. CoURse Resources and Reserves

7. Select Instructor/Dept.

8. Select Course

9. CoURse Resources Page  Link to online Course Syllabus

10. Course Syllabus

11. Links to e-reserves

12. CoURse Resources Page  Link to online Course Syllabus  Link to Course webpage (if avail.)

13. Course homepage

14. Course Resources Page  Link to online Course Syllabus  Link to Course webpage (if avail.)  Link to faculty email

15. CoURse Resources Page  Link to online Course Syllabus  Link to Course webpage (if avail.)  Link to faculty email  Photo/link to librarian’s email

16. CoURse Resources Page  Link to online Course Syllabus  Link to Course webpage (if avail.)  Link to faculty email  Photo/link to librarian’s email  Links to library resources

17. Article databases

18. Websites

19. Journals

20. Books

21. Media

22. Staff Resource Manager

23. Resource Association List

24. Course Associations

25. Ask a Librarian

26. Results  Students USE CoURse Resources pages for access to syllabus  Students come into the libraries requesting assistance from subject specialists by name  Librarians receive email directly from students asking for assistance

27. Writing on Art Coursepage

29. Future Plans  Incorporate course clusters for easy database searching  Work with federated search vendors to produce results in relevance order  Include a “blog” tab for student comments on resources, etc.  Continue to work with ITS to gain access to WebCT coursepages

30. The Google challenge  UR Librarians enjoy reengineering librarianship in a Google world, and will continue to explore new approaches and applications…

31. Technical information  CoURse Resources/Reserves software is Open Source and available at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/libcb Demo available—contact Susan Gibbons sgibbons@library.rochester.edu  Event Recording Software = Morae http://www.techsmith.com/products/morae/default.asp

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