Exporting Library Resources Into Your LMS Easily and Quickly

An overview and illustration of how it works

Your Library has a wealth of high quality content that can be easily used for instructional purposes at

no cost to your students This PPT provides an overview of how your

campus can connect your library discovery services with your LMS so you can take the materials you found from your library search and export the information directly into your LMS.

Using Library Resources for Instruction

– Convenience is key to changing behaviors

– Export your library citations to Blackboard Use primary sources at no student costs Blend faculty research/scholarship skills

and interests into instruction Leverages your library collection investments Exporting into Moodle and D2L is in

development

CSU Stanislaus Is Leading The Way– No smoke and mirrors – it’s working

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Leveraging Library to LMS Tool

Use the powerful discovery tools of libraries Use the extensive digital collections of libraries

for multiple purposes Use Single Sign-On (Identity Management) –

you log on to Library System and it will export to your personalized LMS location

The LMS (Blackboard) uses a “plug in/building block” to import the library citations

Customizable Bb Plug-in • Choose Your User Interface• Users Choose Location for Library Citations

We Give Users Feedback That They Were Successful In Importing Library Citations

• You are in Blackboard where titles and links have been automatically listed in the folder (e.g. assignments) that you selected• Students click on the titles and go right to the full text of the article – properly licensed and free to students

Want To Deploy Your Library To LMS Tool? READY: Embed the tool in a larger academic initiative

– Grad Initiative – affordability of education is one key cause of stop/drop outs and this tool will improve the affordability of course materials.

SET: Commit to YOUR Project– Talk to your Library Dean and get the library staff/faculty to

lead the project– Establish project team of librarians, director of academic

technology (LMS manager), and faculty to guide the customized design of your services

GO: Contact Marvin Pollard – mpollard@calstate.edu