Scaling Up Library Resources for Students: Course Views at NCSU

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Scaling Up Library Resources for Students 
Course Views at NCSU

• LITA National Forum
• October 17, 2008
• Kim Duckett and Jason Casden

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Background
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Our Environment
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• Large institution 30,000 students
• Total courses 6,000
• Former WebCT campus
• Current CMS environment is mixed
• BlackBoard Vista
• Moodle pilots
• WolfWare locker system

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History of Course Resources
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• Course pages by subject specialists
• Hand tailored to assignments
• Used with library instruction sessions
• Assignment focused

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Problem Limited Reach
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History of CMS Integration
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• Request process in WebCT since 2004
• Links to subject specialists course pages
• Faculty could select content
• Web pages created off template
• Links inserted by librarian

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What is Course Views?
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• A distillation of the most student-centric stuff
  the library offers.

Branded Library Tools Launch date August 2008
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Goals
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Goals
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• A Course View for every course

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Goals
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• A Course View for every course
• A scalable and sustainable system for library
  course content delivery

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Goals
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• 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

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Collaboration
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• Students
• Faculty
• Subject specialist librarians
• Campus partners

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Demo
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• www.lib.ncsu.edu/course

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Technical Architecture
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http//www.lib.ncsu.edu/course/ENG/101
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http//www.lib.ncsu.edu/course/ENG/101
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Course Identifiers

• Customized content based on existing
  institutional course identifiers.
• NC State example ENG 101
• ENG curriculum code
• 101 course number
• ENG 101 full course identifier

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Content Customization
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Cascading Selection
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Cascading Selection
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Cascading Selection
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Cascading Selection
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Course level ENG 101
Kawanna
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English 101
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Cascading Selection
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Course level ENG 333
Kim
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English 333
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Cascading Selection
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Cindy
Curriculum level ENG
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English (default)
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Integration
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Blackboard Vista
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Blackboard Vista
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Moodle
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Moodle
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WolfWare
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WolfWare
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QuickSearch
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QuickSearch
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Library Homepage
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Library Homepage
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Learning Commons Website
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Learning Commons Website
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Usage
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Date range 8/20/08 10/16/08
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Project Information

• Project home www.lib.ncsu.edu/dli/projects/course
  views
• Library Tools
• www.lib.ncsu.edu/course
• Additional team members Tito Sierra, Joe Ryan

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Questions?
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Contact Us
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• Kim Duckett
• Principal Librarian for Digital Technologies and
  Learning
• kim_duckett_at_ncsu.edu
• Jason Casden
• Digital Technologies Development Librarian
• jason_casden_at_ncsu.edu