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The Claremont Colleges
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Integrating Library Resources Into Sakai
Jezmynne Westcott
The Claremont Colleges
jez@hmc.edu
Jez91711 on AIM, Yahoo, and Gmail
The Claremont Colleges
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• Why Sakai?• Define Library Resources• Use of Tools and Best
Practices• Indicators of Success• Next Steps
The Claremont Colleges
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• Librarians have limited access to our website• Website is complex and difficult to navigate
with a poor search feature• Users already in Sakai for course work and
are familiar with how Sakai manages content• Easy to use
The Claremont Colleges
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• Web Links• Documents• Knowledge• Librarians
The Claremont Colleges
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• Point the description to a webpage– Create a page housed in another project
site or the “My Workspace” and make it publicly accessible
– Use a Meebo widget or similar if your institution monitors chat for reference
• Enables users to contact librarians when they are not logged into Sakai
The Claremont Colleges
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The Claremont Colleges
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• Links to the OPAC, Databases, RefWorks, Library Website and Blogs– Links from tool menu bar refresh when the
page reloads; content requiring continued manipulation, like RefWorks, should open in a new window
– Many links should be in a Resources folder or your tool menu bar will be very long
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The Claremont Colleges
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• Handouts organized by subject or objective• Restrict some folders to specific groups
– Duplicate relevant items across folders, e.g., Google Scholar Tips
– Use text files or HMTL pages for distance users who may not have Adobe or MS Office
– Make items or entire folders publicly viewable in the item’s details for linking from other pages/sites
The Claremont Colleges
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• Ideal for a “How To” step by step research guide
• Suggested library assignments beyond research papers– Work with faculty to share ideas– Encourage faculty to point students to the
library site
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• Use text, links, images, video/audio files– Store items in a folder in resources– Place items marked publicly viewable in
other sites and link to them
• Easy to use
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The Claremont Colleges
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The Claremont Colleges
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• 172 students and faculty have joined the site since fall began
• Science library site in the list of most highly visited sites several weeks of the term
• Faculty add librarians to course sites• Site stats indicate logins, events, and
resources accessed
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• More librarian involvement– Enable librarians to use Sakai
• Course integrated instruction– Work with faculty to integrate the library site and
content into their research assignments
• Electronic reserves– Migrate content from current reserves server to
Sakai– Create admin login to enable library staff to upload
content to course sites
Next Steps