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Using New Tools but Keeping the Old A collaborative approach
between a University's Academic Technology department and the
Library to enhance access to electronic materials
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Terry Ballard Associate Professor and Automation Librarian
Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Connecticut.
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Part 1- Making a Library Training course that works in and out
of Blackboard Evolved out of adding tutorials to Blackboard for
instruction in use of the OPAC 2003, the library adapted the
University of Texas TILT program an information literacy
tutorial.
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We liked the program but found the registration process
cumbersome for the assessments at the end of each section, so we
adapted the TILT tests and added them to our Library Instruction
class in Blackboard.
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We substituted many of the original graphics with our own
images.
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Freshman English students would be enrolled in the library
"course" in Blackboard, and follow a link to the test in each
module. Professors who wanted could have the test scores sent so
that the student could get credit for completing "QUILT." Each
Spring, English students are automatically enrolled in the library
course, and regular usage was logged.
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The end of each module provides a link to our own test in
Blackboard or, ungraded, to the original files from the University
of Texas.
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The user can now take the test inside of Blackboard, and still
connected to QUILT
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Team effort This project was possible due to the coordination
of efforts between the English department, the library, and the
programmers in Academic Technology. Rosters were given to the
programmers so they would know which students to add to the library
class.
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Part 2 creating an interactive bibliography Most English 102
classes at Quinnipiac involve studying the novel Frankenstein. We
identified a number of articles free on the web or in library-owned
resources. There was a need for a master bibliography of articles
about Frankenstein with links to online resources.
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We began by finding all articles about Frankenstein in MLA
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We then began exporting the citations to RefWorks, a
bibliographic manager
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EBSCO has a mechanism for direct export to RefWorks
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The references were automatically sent and saved in
alphabetical order
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Finally, the bibliography is downloaded into an HTML file, in
MLA format
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The citations in the resulting file can now be checked for
full-text availability by library workers.
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Leading to the final product
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Finding linkable information Library workers searched for
full-text versions of these articles free on the Web or in
databases that the library subscribes to. For chapters in books,
they checked the online catalog, and linked to that record when
available. The bibliography found an audience immediately in and
out of Quinnipiac.
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Part 3 Adding OPAC access to an art image collection In 2004,
the library, at the behest of the Academic Technology department,
purchased a selection of 1000 jpg images from Saskia, a company
that photographed artworks from the worlds great museums, and
licensed the images for educational uses.
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First solutions Initially, the images were copied from the
CD-rom and added to MasterFile, a content management program that
runs in tandem with Blackboard. This made the images available for
addition to Blackboard for teachers who looked for the images.
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Problems with that To reach the level in Blackboard where you
can begin to browse the images, youve clicked 12 times
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More problems Only professors in the art program would be
likely to see this, since students and staff members at the
university could not get in to the MasterFile portion of
Blackboard. Faculty in other departments could potentially see
these, if they browsed in the Art folders, but MasterFile is still
mainly a tool for power users, and hasnt been entirely rolled out.
The library was interested in expanding the potential audience for
Saskia.
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The solution Early in 2005, the solution presented itself. At
that time, library faculty members discovered that the 970 fields
in marc records that had been used to add Table of Contents
information could take any HTML commands. This gave the library the
option to add links to chapters in ebooks, images and tables.
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This had the potential to alter drastically the marc display in
a web-based catalog:
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The new plan for Saskia Add the Saskia images to a server that
needs login and password to access. Enable access to the entire
university community. Create marc records that display a thumbnail
with links to the controlled directory for the full images.
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The final result looked like this:
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The password prompt appears even when the user is on
campus
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The images now come up in the same search that retrieves books
about an artist