Librarians’ Presence in Online Courses: What Have You Learned?

Amy Burns and Julie ObstCentral Piedmont Community College

Agenda

•What are online library services?• CPCC experience– Embedded services (Amy)– ENG department pilot group (Julie)– COM department project (Julie)

• Share your experience (All)

Embedded Librarians: Moving Beyond One-Shot Instruction, edited by Cassandra Kvenild and Kaijsa Calkins of the University of Wyoming.

First try: Embedded Services

•Pilot Project in ENG courses•Develop some best practices and

procedures to manage the service.•Collaboration and cooperation with

your institution’s e-learning department is essential.

Amy’s Page - Then

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What I learned• Being the course librarian means you need to be aware of

when they are working (might need to check in on the weekends- or right before a due date)

• Small things help- pictures and personalizing the content• We may begin offering different ‘levels’ of involvement.

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Assessments

Some instructors have chosen how to ‘incentivize’ the library lessons• Graded Library Lessons• 10 question quiz to follow up viewing of the library lesson.• librarian created the questions for the quiz and the quiz was a graded

assignment.• Using Bb features• using the “mark reviewed” feature of Bb• Utilize the statistics tracking features in Bb

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Amy’s page - Now

What I learned•Every course with a Blackboard component can use a librarian.•Libguides! •Build relationships. •Connect with instructors and students throughout the course. Schedule emails.•You can have too many words.•Everybody waits until the last minute!

Assessments• Tracking emails and appointments with

online students.• Communicating with instructors.• Feedback from students.• Statistics available through Libguides as well

as Blackboard.• Surveys.

Embedded at the Macro LevelCOM departmentBlackboard courses

• 92 sections of COM 110 • 67 sections of COM 231

Library Tutorial

*self-paced with a quiz NOTlinked to the blackboard grade book.

Blackboard of an E-Learning Librarian

How it all started…

10 years of scavengingUs.

Our students.

Library Research Assignmentfor in face to face classes

English 110pilot phase

8 instructors and their 8 Blackboard courses

What we’ve learned from Macro embedding…

Relationships vital to success

Quiz outcomes?

What’s next?

Sweeten the deal

Discussion time

•Who is offering online services?•What works for you?• Examples and stories.