1. Incorporating Digital Library Resources into a University Course Management System Jacqueline Solis Ellen M. Hampton University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2. Course Management Systems Originally created to facilitate distance education Now used to provide information about both on- campus and distance ed. classes Licensed systems (Blackboard/WebCT) Growing movement towards open-source CMS (Moodle, Sakai,.LRN)

3. What can you do with a CMS? Post syllabus, course readings, schedule, announcements Groups, discussion board Quizzes, grade book Open-source models are developing blogging, wiki software

4. CMS at UNC UNC licenses Blackboard  $60,000/year  16 ITS employees support Blackboard  Over 2500 courses in Blackboard  2100 instructors and 650 TAs use Blackboard  85% of students use Blackboard Investigating move to open-source CMS

7. Perceived Problems Licensed CMS included links to fee-based resources, or low-quality internet links, not library resources Faculty breaking copyright law Students overwhelmed by library web page, even after library instruction

9. The Project Integrating relevant library resources with specific course’s Blackboard page Connecting instruction with course assignments – a good model Goals:  Incorporate digital library resources into Blackboard  Organize specific resources for students  Help faculty with copyright issues

10. The Process: Template Creation

11. The Process: Class-specific Meet with interested professors Read and discuss syllabus, readings and assignments Select resources  Relevant subject headings  Databases  Internet resources  Digital documents Work with E-reserves

12. Results Resources linked directly from main Blackboard page

14. Results Resources linked directly from main Blackboard page Links to copyright cleared articles located in the E-Reserves

16. Results Resources linked directly from main Blackboard page Links to copyright cleared articles located in the E-Reserves Library instruction is subtly included

18. Results Resources linked directly from main Blackboard page Links to copyright cleared articles located in the E-Reserves Library instruction is subtly included Digital library resources (from UNC and elsewhere) linked directly

20. Questions? Comments?