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Finding the Library in Blackboard: An Assessment of Library Integration
Both faculty and students at Brigham Young University wanted a "one-stop shopping" environment in their Blackboard courses that would contain appropriate library resources and services needed to complete course assignments without having to leave the course. However, most CMSs do not include the library as a component of the courseware system.The author and a programmer from the Lee Library collaborated to address this need using a Library Tab on the Welcome page. Links to basic library resources and services were automatically included in every Blackboard course. Additionally, a "Building Block" displayed a customized course list for each student and automatically delivered the relevant Course Research Page (CRP) to the course. This solution provided time-saving benefits for both faculty and students. The Lee Library recently surveyed students about the effectiveness of the CRP. Respondents found the CRP easy to use, found resources needed for their papers or projects, felt that their papers or projects were better as a result of using the page and said they would recommend the page to other students.
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- Material Type:
- Open (Access) Journal-Article
- Date Added to MERLOT:
- July 7, 2014
- Date Modified in MERLOT:
- July 7, 2014
- Author:
- Allyson Washburn, Brigham Young University
- Submitter:
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Barbra Bied Sperling
- Primary Audience:
- College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School
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- Language:
- English
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This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
