1. Libraries of Course: integrating library content and services into the e-learning environment. Brian Flaherty Digital Services Manager University of Auckland Library

2. The University of Auckland Library

3.  500+ bibliographic databases  58,000+ electronic journals  180,000+ electronic books  1.9 million volumes

4. Course-specific Library resources  Currently delivered from multiple locations and applications  Time-consuming for Library staff to manage  Difficult for students to find everything  Troublesome for academics to incorporate in their teaching

14. What are we trying to achieve?  Seamless integration of Library resources with Cecil (the University’s LMS)  Improved administration of course-related Library services

15. Two options  Work with Cecil developers to design a database of Library resources inside LMS  To build an application outside the LMS

16. Inside LMS +  easier integration with teaching material  and potentially a single database of learning objects.  We are in the fortunate position of having a home- grown system with Cecil developers keen to assist

17. Inside LMS -  the requirement to include a number of Library-specific processes Short Loans, Digitisation, Acquisitions (purchase of materials) in the application.  some lecturers expressed concern about providing librarians access to “staff side” of their Cecil courses.  In addition, any future development would be reliant on the availability of Cecil developers

18. External Repository +  easier to incorporate complex Library processes  a degree of autonomy in the development and testing process

19. External Repository -  More difficult to achieve contextual learning  existing staff in Digital Services were already managing a heavy workload

20. Survey of existing course-specific content  Exams database - digitised exam papers  Short loan items – desk copies from the Voyager Course Materials module  E-reserves – digitised articles and book chapters  Course Resources web pages – with contact details of Subject Librarian  Information skills material – specific database tutorials etc  A Bookshop database of prescribed texts  Links to relevant Internet sites  Canned (pre-defined) Voyager searches

21. Functional Requirements  Simplification of web forms  Easy data input  Authentication  Administration of Requests  Publishing flexibility

22. Continued …  Link maintenance  Reference styles  Inter-relationship with Voyager Course Materials (Short Loan) module  Web Services!

23. Policy Decisions  A page for every course  The database should not become a defacto LMS  Subject Librarians (in collaboration with Lecturers) will have overall responsibility for the delivery of content in their subject areas

24. Advantages - lecturers  will be able to add Short Loan items,  request the digitisation of print articles and book chapters,  create links to prescribed texts in Voyager,  add links to e-journal articles, e-books and Internet sites,  and structure these resources under headings.

25. Advantages - Librarians  will be able to administer Short Loan and digitisation requests  assist in selecting electronic content  provide dynamic links to digitised exam papers and relevant Library tutorials and instructional material  manage URLs via LF+ Knowledge base  manage content without editing html

26. Advantages - students  will be able to find all their course-related Library resources in one place, accessible via the Library website LEARN, and Cecil

27. Technical  SQL database  A number of stored procedures & web front-end in ASP  Course information data loaded from PeopleSoft  Server redundancy

28. How far down the track are we?  As of November 2005 the project is in mid-flow, with a launch set for Semester 2, 2006 (July).  Database tables complete, admin interface and front- end being finalised  Testing regime, communication plan…

29. Future plans  web services  a link creation applet for Cecil  federated search engine (ENCompass)  Simplified Sign On (SSO) Project  a “My Library” personalised service  integration into Cecil?

30.  Other Projects…

31. Voyager Tutorial

36. Early New Zealand Books www.enzb.auckland.ac.nz

37. Early New Zealand Books

39. Smithyman Collected Poems www.smithymanonline.auckland.ac.nz

40. Anthropology Photographic Archive www.library.auckland.ac.nz/databases/alt/apa/

41. Libraries of Course: integrating library content and services into the virtual learning environment. Brian Flaherty Digital Services Manager University of Auckland Library