Distance Librarianship @ Rasmussen College

1. WAAL 2012
Distance Librarianship @ Rasmussen College

2. Rasmussen
College Library
System
Karen Eckberg (Green Bay, WI campus)

3. Introduction
• Rasmussen College
– History (1900 in St
Paul, MN)
– Today (22 + Online)
• Who we are (HLC)
• Who we serve (14K)
• Support +

4. Rasmussen College Library System
• 2006
• Shared print & electronic materials
• LLC

5. Collaborating Over Distance
Shana Friedman ( Aurora, IL campus)

6. Coming together…without ever meeting!
o Wimba-meetings, etc
 Monthly meetings led by various members for updates
and planning
 Maintains consistency throughout campuses
o Phone conferences
 Quick and easy to touch base
o Common e-mail
 If one person is out sick, has an emergency, etc, anyone
else can cover their campus
 Another way to ensure everyone gets the same
information
 Challenge—so many e-mails coming in, hard to keep
track of what’s actually meant for you
 Challenge—limited privacy

7. ILL and Committee Work
o ILL-in network exchange of books
 This opens up opportunities to have access to many different
books without casing them in one location. Our collection is
vast because of our ILL capabilities
 All books and media can be shared between libraries
o Committee Work (in collaboration with learning center
coordinators)
 Programming committee
• Creates guides and ephemera for all librarians to use for
holidays and themes , puts together presentations
including outside resources for knowledge enrichment
 Onboarding and development committee
• Creates standard operating procedures for library and
learning center, updating as necessary

8. Committee Work, Continued…
 Web and social media committee
• Manages social websites as well as library web site,
developing new ways to reach out to students
 Instruction committee
• Creates Online Academic Guides for students to access
information easier, tests LibAnalytics to measure library
statistics
• Works with instructors to insert library materials into the
class structure for comprehensive learning
 Assessment Committee
• Works on ways to get valid information about student base
and library needs

9. Modernizing to meet a new generation’s needs
o Meebo/text
 Two hours a week, alternating hours. Very easy to
swap hours through e-mail. Very difficult to
schedule weekends and evenings—which are high
traffic times
 Text is not widely used, though we do have a
scavenger hunt that has people use it at least once
to get a feel for it

10. Springshare LIB products
Jeneen LaSee-Willemssen (Wausau, WI campus)

11. Online Calendar (LibCal)
• Manage online shifts
– Reference, chat, text, Answers
• Manage programs like webinars and training
– Registration
– Marketing
– Information

14. Online Academic Guides (LibGuides)
• Widely used by academic libraries
– Subject guides / pathfinders
• We’ve done the “norm” and added:
– Collaborative Creation with Instructors
– Collaborative Creation with Co-teaching
– Programming guides
– Logistical guides (webinar archives)

15. Course Guide

16. Webinar Guide

17. Answers (LibAnswers)
• Interactive FAQ database
• Questions derived from...
• Answers
– Text, images, files, embedded videos, links
• Uses
– Self-help; liaison expertise; links for online
reference services

18. Featured Questions

19. Most Recent Questions

20. Sample Answer

21. Webinar Hits and Misses
Naomi Stuesser (Appleton, WI campus)
Photo from the Field Museum Library’s
Illinois Urban Landscapes Project:
www.fieldmuseum.org/urbanlandscapes/

22. Webi What Nar?
Fall of 2010
So many workshops, so little time, so
many online students….
Photo from the Library of Virginia: http://www.lva.virginia.gov/

23. APA Basics Webinar Archive Spring 2012

24. Hits!
• Presenter/co-presenter system
• Sharing is caring
• Everything in one place
• Pre-made publicity materials
• Tracks and the whole enchilada
• Faculty
• Your very own room
• Tracking
• Other departments
• La committee
• Tutor training
• Monkey Business
Photo from Steven Martin:
http://www.flickr.com/people/stevenm_61/

25. http://guides.rasmussen.edu/llcwebinarseries

26. Misses! Or more gently,
opportunities…
• Archives multiplying like bunnies
• Unsupervised PPTs
• Team training
• Assessment
• Peer review
• Stronger, shinier ads
• Transcripts

27. A Happy Ending
Sloan-C International
Conference on Online
Learning - Webinar
Presentation
Photo by Robert Neff, Fifth World
Art, http://www.fifthworldart.com/

28. Librarian partnerships
John Fedoryn (Romeoville / Joliet, IL campus)

29. ANGEL/Online Classes
• Link in the Online Platform for the Library

30. Screencasts
• Embedded Screencasts in Online Introductory
Criminal Justice CJ100 Course (example)
• Created using Jing, Screener
• Get Students at their point of need
• At Rasmussen the Library and Learning
Centers work as a team

31. One College, One Book
Cynthia Reynolds (Rockford, IL campus)

32. In the beginning…
• Mission Statement: Rasmussen College is
dedicated to serving our communities by
recognizing the diverse needs of individuals.
• Quarterly diversity events
• Librarians responsible for Fall event
• Diversity book discussions

33. Modality
• On Campus
– Residential discussion
– Individual librarians choose a date
• Online
– Ongoing asynchronous discussion
– LibraryThing

34. LibraryThing

35. LibraryThing Discussion posts

36. Selections
• Handful of books chosen by programming
committee
• Diversity titles
• Multiple formats
• Title selected by popular vote

37. Previous selections
• Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie – 2009
• Little Bee by Chris Cleave – 2010
• Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
by Mark Haddon – 2011

38. Related events
• Online Academic Guides
• Virtual panel discussion – Autism
• Other
– Crime Scene at Wausau; Dog prints leading to book
display/registration at Appleton; Panel discussion
Autism/ADHD/Learning Disorders at faculty development
at Appleton
– Little Bee Tea at Appleton
– Guest professor lecture on Ojibway at Rockford
– Chew & Chat at Fort Myers
– Book displays/bulletin boards at all campuses

39. Online Academic Guide

40. Questions?
• Access the conference guide at:
http://guides.rasmussen.edu/WAAL2012
• Contact information:
– Karen.Eckberg@rasmussen.edu
– Shana.Friedman@rasmussen.edu
– Jeneen.LaSee-Willemssen@rasmussen.edu
– Naomi.Stuesser@rasmussen.edu
– John.Fedoryn@rasmussen.edu
– Cynthia.Reynolds@rasmussen.edu