It Takes a Village: Creating Campus Partnership

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It Takes a VillageCreating Campus Partnership

• Barbara J. DAngelo
• ASU East Library
• Arizona Library Association
• December 2002

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East Library

• Electronic in nature
• Service orientation
• Community orientation

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MWTC Program

• New program begun in 2000
• Applied professional program
• Traditional technical writing
• Website design
• Information management

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MWTC Portal Project

• Proposed Fall 2001
• User- centered design what would happen if the
  students built it?
• Applied project
• Students learn by doing
• Real world scenario and product

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MWTC Portal Goals

• Build information literacy into course design
• Organization of information
• Retrieval and use of information
• Information management
• Role of information and libraries in virtual
  environment
• Facilitate community building

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Putting the Pieces Together

• ABOR Access and Workforce Development Grant
• Instructors
• MyLibrary Software

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Putting the Course Together

• Communicating with the instructor
• Course technology
• BlackBoard
• MOO
• Email/listserv
• Assessment

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Library as Client

• Mimic real world consulting project
• Project management team responsible for all
  communication
• Consultant-client NOT teacher-student
• Budget

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Project Teams

• Project Management
• Content and Categories
• Interface and Documentation
• Graphics and Audience Analysis
• Usability and Community Relations
• Ethnographer

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Chaos and Conflict

• Confusion and frustration
• Team communication issues
• Leadership emerged
• What is appropriate content?

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Building Information Literacy

• Group discussions
• Writing assignments
• Reflection journals

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Building Community

• MWTC Program Library
• Students finding program identity
• Renamed portal
• Created a logo
• Developed content
• Planned for future students
• External MyLibrary development community

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Current Status and the Future

• Initial version to be unveiled on December 12
• Instructor committed to continue development in
  Spring 2003 course
• Complete documentation prepared by students
• Webmaster to continue as intern during Spring 03

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Project URLs

• http//twc.composing.org/portal/
• http//twc.composing.org/portal/iterations/0/
• http//portal.composing.org/