This blog, originally created in the Fall of 2008 for INSDSGN 619, will change its focus for the Spring 2009 term. While I am enrolled in INSDSGN 605, it will be dedicated to "Library 2.0". It will explore the technologies and service models that academic librarians can use to improve services for all of our customers. However, I am particularly interested in any ideas that will help me reach our ever-growing population of distance education students.
Here is the result of my informal and unscientific discussion board introduction poll....
6 out of 22 of my classmates in 605 responded to the informal poll for a response rate of 27%.
5 out of the 22 have never used Univ. of Mass. at Boston's library, but 1 has (and she is not a librarian!)
To be honest, if I wasn't an academic librarian, I probably wouldn't be aware of the university's online library resources and would not have had reason, after 24 credits, to use them.
The UMB library doesn't really seem to have a presence in the Blackboard course and hasn't really marketed its collection and services to me. This is just an observation and not a criticism, though . I am in the same boat. I don't have a presence in the Blackboard shell at my college, and I have done very little to market the library directly to the students. All of my efforts have been focused towards the online faculty, but with little success.
But I think this has to change, at least in the college that I work. We have purchased many digital materials, primarily for our online students. They are paying for these resources but do not to use them. Probably, in many cases, my students do not even know about what is available.....
So, if any of my classmates want to post, please share any ideas about how the library should reach us, market to us, and serve us....
Cheers,
Lynee
Here is the result of my informal and unscientific discussion board introduction poll....
6 out of 22 of my classmates in 605 responded to the informal poll for a response rate of 27%.
5 out of the 22 have never used Univ. of Mass. at Boston's library, but 1 has (and she is not a librarian!)
To be honest, if I wasn't an academic librarian, I probably wouldn't be aware of the university's online library resources and would not have had reason, after 24 credits, to use them.
The UMB library doesn't really seem to have a presence in the Blackboard course and hasn't really marketed its collection and services to me. This is just an observation and not a criticism, though . I am in the same boat. I don't have a presence in the Blackboard shell at my college, and I have done very little to market the library directly to the students. All of my efforts have been focused towards the online faculty, but with little success.
But I think this has to change, at least in the college that I work. We have purchased many digital materials, primarily for our online students. They are paying for these resources but do not to use them. Probably, in many cases, my students do not even know about what is available.....
So, if any of my classmates want to post, please share any ideas about how the library should reach us, market to us, and serve us....
Cheers,
Lynee
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