1. Librarian/Faculty Collaboration:
Strategies for Providing
Library Services and Resources
in Online Courses
The 19th
Annual AFACCT Conference
Session 6.2: January 9, 2009
Vicki Cone, Ken Jarvis, and Sandra King
Anne Arundel Community College

2. Vicki Cone
Associate Professor and Information
Resources/Distance Learning Librarian

3. Sloan Report
 Almost 3.5 million students were taking at
least one online course during the fall 2006
term; a nearly 10 percent increase over the
number reported the previous year.
 The 9.7 percent growth rate for online
enrollments far exceeds the 1.5 percent
growth of the overall higher education
student population.

4.  Nearly twenty percent of all U.S.
higher education students were
taking at least one online course in
the fall of 2006.
 Sloan Report: http://www.sloan-
c.org/publications/survey/online_nation
Sloan Report (cont.)

5. Information Literacy
 Is often a college competency
 Is important to accrediting bodies
 Enables students to do effective
research
 Increases as students complete
assignments requiring them to find,
evaluate, and properly use information
 Is an important life-long skill

6. Communication
Social &
Civic Responsibility
Anne Arundel Community College expects students to gain and demonstrate proficiency
in core competencies which encompass general education and essential life skills.
The college is committed to offering experiences that allow students to acquire,
develop and demonstrate growth in these competencies.
The attainment of these competencies provides the foundation for lifelong learning.
Self-Management
Technology
Fluency Scientific
Reasoning
Innovative &
Critical Thinking
Personal
Wellness
Global
Perspective
Information
Literacy
Quantitative
Reasoning
AACC Students and Graduates are AmongAACC Students and Graduates are Among
the Best Prepared Citizens and Workers of the Worldthe Best Prepared Citizens and Workers of the World

7. Information Literacy
 Know – what kind and how much
 Access – effectively and efficiently
 Evaluate – find appropriate info from
proper sources
 Use – to accomplish goal
 Ethics – use information legally and
ethically

8. Librarians Reinforce
Information Literacy Skills
 Obtain resources to support student
learning
 Provide access to those materials
 Offer services to enhance effective
use of those resources
 Assist faculty in a variety of ways

9. Resources
 Books and other resources
 Databases & electronic books
 Audio-Visual materials
 Library guides
 Tutorials
 Streaming video
 Web pages that describe our services

13. Services
 Online Library Card application
 Deliver books
 Assistance through email/phone
 24/7 reference
 Library instruction at off-site
locations
 Captivate tutorials

14. Librarians Can Help Students
 Use the library
 Start research
 Choose appropriate material
 Create proper citations
 Assist online students when
embedded in the course

15. Librarians Can Help Faculty
 Comply with Copyright & the TEACH
Act (in cooperation with DL staff)
 Collaborate on assignments
 Find resources that work in DL
environment
 Provide other resources and services
for DL faculty

16. Other Ways
 Librarian involvement on college
committees that involve DL
 CMS involvement
 Workshops for faculty

17. What can an
Embedded Librarian do?

18. Kenneth Jarvis
Associate Professor
Hospitality, Culinary Arts & Tourism

19. Supporting Distance Learners
• Hotel Restaurant Management is a
statewide designated program
• This broadens the audience and increases
the demand for distance learning
• Embedding a librarian in the class made
sense; to provide distance learners with the
same quality resources as those on campus
• As the demand for distance learning
increased, library resources expanded

20. Supporting Distance Learners
• The library has developed “guides” for
many college programs containing
relevant resources
• Students are required to complete an
MLA bibliography assignment using the
“citation guide”
• In an introduction course, students
write papers using specific library
database resources

23. Student Support, Another Example
 HRM 232, World Culture and Cuisine
 Research paper
 Fact sheet
 PowerPoint Presentation
 Streaming Videos

On server

Films.com

24. Pulling it all Together
 This is an amazing collegial effort between
the instructor, the library and the
instructional designers from the Virtual
Campus
 To support student learning and success
 To meet college wide core competencies
 Information Literacy
 Technology Fluency
 Communication

25. Sandra King
Associate Professor
English and Communications

26. Supporting Distance Learners
 Online students usually pay fees for
services, but don’t always use them.
 They may not know how to get a
library card, access the library
catalogue or databases, or get help
with research questions.

29. Other ideas:
 I also mention the library discussion
in the assignment itself. For
example, I tell students to use the
links which Prof. Cone has placed in
the library discussion rather than
sources such as Wikipedia and
About.com.

30. Benefits:
 Online students feel that they have
their own personal librarian available
to assist them.
 Even students who take both online
and on-campus classes benefit
because they don’t always access
library services while on campus.

31. Remember-
 You are not alone!
 Take advantage of your library, its
resources and people

32. Thank you!
Vicki Cone
Ken Jarvis
Sandy King
Anne Arundel Community College
(Links to some of the library’s resources are listed
on the next slide.)

33. Anne Arundel Community
College Library Resources
 Library Guides: http://libguides.aacc.edu/
 Guide to Citing Sources:
http://libguides.aacc.edu/citationguide
 Guide to Writing College Papers:
http://libguides.aacc.edu/writingcollegepapers
 Library Resources for Distance Learners:
http://www.aacc.edu/library/DLResources.cfm
 Library Resources for Faculty:
http://www.aacc.edu/library/DLFaculty.cfm