1. Anita
R.
Dryden,
Digital
&
Web
Projects
Fellow
Chris=na
H.
Gola,
Head
of
Instruc=on
&
Outreach

2. } ~40,000
students
} Commuter
campus
} High
#
transfer
students
} Decentralized
} Tier
One
Aspira=ons
Shasta
III,
Courtesy
of
Special
Collec=ons,
UH
Libraries
Digital
Library

3. } Driven
by
a
few
tech-­‐savvy
liaisons
} ScaQered,
inconsistent
} Libguides
&
Meebo
“Puzzle
Pieces”
from
Flickr
user
andrewmalone

4. } Instruc=onal
Designers
} Managers
of
Blackboard
Vista
and
more
} Short
staffed
and
underfunded
“solu;on”
from
istockphoto

5. } History, oops! Value??
} PHP script using Blackboard’s
template variables from UT
Libraries
} “Library Course” – students
self enroll
“Blue
Screen
of
Death”
from
stock.xchng
user
cdw0107

6. } Simple for anyone to
understand
} Easy to communicate
} First steps are “tech free”
} Little effort needed on FDIS
side

7. } Identified courses
} Course builder with
permission
} Manually linked to LibGuides
} Gathered stats from one
semester
“Copy
Cats
Ahead”
from
iStockPhoto

8. 3,872 hits
in one
semester

9. } Still too much work for
implementing in Blackboard
VISTA, but…
} Blackboard Learn
} Implementation Team
“Heres
is
a
top”
from
stock.xchng
user
blary54

10. } Training - 4 days, all day
} Not all relevant
} But we learned everything
} Got more than we wanted

11. } Campus Level
◦ Variety of content
} Course level
◦ Class Guides
“Take
Two”
from
stock.xchng
user
Ulrik

12. } Courses/Organiza=ons
} Tabs
} Content
Collec=on
◦ Individual
◦ Course/Organiza=on
◦ Ins=tu=on
◦ Library

17. } Research Guides (course level)
} Library Tab (institution level)
} E-Reserves (content collection) – maybe!

18. } Discovery at point of need
} Automated process necessary for 1800
courses per semester
} Dynamic links pass subject code and course
number
} Linking vs. Embedding
} Based on Duke Model

20. } Library has administrator privileges
} “Modules” for customizable content
} Dynamic content from other library systems
} Focused on point-of-need research help

22. } Part of “content collection”
} Folders are automatically created for each
course
} Folders expire each semester and content
embargoed for reuse

24. } Dynamic
content
wherever
possible
} Minimal
library
staff
working
in
Bb
} E-­‐Reserves,
largely
similar
to
current
workflows
“Low
Maintenance”
from
Flickr
user
WiQy
Name