INTEGRATING UW LIBRARIES TOOLS INTO ONLINE COURSESLauren Ray, Educational Outreach Services Librarian

9.1.2009

EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH SERVICES LIBRARIAN

Provides outreach to students in Fee-Based Degree programs.

Works with subject librarians (Engineering, Business, Information Science, etc) to develop and refine web pages, tutorials, instruction and reference services for Fee-based degree students

Identifies new technological applications that may enhance library services for EO students

TODAY

Online Research Guides – soon to be LibGuides

24/7 Chat with a Librarian

Online video tutorials

UW WorldCat

WHY PUT LIBRARIES CONTENT IN ONLINE COURSES?

Students want “just in time” resources that fit within their specific learning context.

Embedding Libraries content in the online course puts resources and services at their fingertips.

Time after time we hear “I wish I’d known about this when I started my class months ago”.

Connects students to expensive UW content, like e-journals, books and research databases, that librarians have carefully chosen.

RESEARCH GUIDES: EXISTING

http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/Education/

LIBGUIDES

http://guides.lib.washington.edu/content.php?pid=53989

LIBGUIDES WIDGETS

LIBGUIDES WIDGET IN MOODLE COURSE

Acadia University, Nova Scotia

24/7 CHAT WITH A LIBRARIAN

Anyone (students, instructors, staff, non-UW) can use our AskUs service to get help from a librarian, live, 24/7.

Qwidget is a chat widget that provides access to the 24/7 chat.

Qwidget can be added to online course pages, and works on javascript enabled browsers.

CHAT WIDGETS

http://www.lib.washington.edu/

Product, pricing, promotion and distribution channels of IT Outsource companies? Do you know where I could find this info?

As a current extension student (an evening program in sports medicine), how can I access journals from the UW library for research for a paper for this class?

How can I get information that is in a book in the library if I'm a distance student? I'm still learning how to use this database, and I admit, I'm not having much luck. If I can find an abstract, do you have services that copy and mail journal articles to my home?

I teach an online course for UW Educational Outreach. May I check out books from the UW library system?

EXAMPLE OF EMBEDDED CHAT WIDGET

From presentation “Putting the Library Into Student Hands”, Pyatt, Elizabeth J. Integrating Library Services Into a Learning Management System Conference.

ONLINE TUTORIALS

http://guides.lib.washington.edu/howdoi

UW WORLDCAT

http://www.lib.washington.edu/

UW WORLDCAT

One-stop-shopping tool for finding materials (primarily books)

Allows quick ordering via Interlibrary Loan and Summit

No need for user to know where materials originated

Social features similar to Amazon allow for saving and sharing searches, and “Browse similar titles”

ORBIS-CASCADE ALLIANCE

Consortium of 35 universities, colleges, and community colleges in Oregon and Washington

Degree and Extension Students, Instructors and Staff can check out materials at these libraries with a Husky or Borrower’s Card

QUESTIONS?

Lauren RayEducational Outreach Services LibrarianUniversity of Washington Librariesolray@u.washington.eduAIM: laurenref206.543.6847