Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for libraries present in their campus' LMS

2017-02-01 Thread Jon Knight
> Vendors such as ExLibris and SirsiDynix seem to have woken up at last to the > value of this approach and now offer their own Reading List Management > solutions[...] If anyone is interested in an open source reading list system, the one we've developed and used at Loughborough University for

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for libraries present in their campus' LMS

2017-01-30 Thread Gary Thompson
I am happy to offer an update to our numbers, which were based on Google Analytics. A quick review of our Drupal server logs (Varnish and Apache) shows that the Library Resources link in the CCLE was clicked more than 68,000 times since July 1, 2016. Library resources are clearly being

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for libraries present in their campus' LMS

2017-01-30 Thread Terry Brady
Within our LMS, - Courses have links to library resources and e-reserves by default. - The LMS landing page has a library module. - The course document editor allows an instructor to easily link to resources in our institutional repository. -

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for libraries present in their campus' LMS

2017-01-29 Thread Fagan, Jody Condit - faganjc
Chiming in a little later here thanks to 'digest' mode :) Similar to what Gary described, here at James Madison University we use Canvas and have included a link to "JMU Libraries" in the left-hand column navigation for all courses,. Our link appears at the bottom by the default, although

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for libraries present in their campus' LMS

2017-01-27 Thread Gary Thompson
My colleague Sharon Shafer and I just had a minute to do some analysis. Over the past year, 536 courses had at least one student click the link to the guide. The links were clicked a total of 2955 times. In 62 courses, the link was clicked at least 10 times. These number come from our web

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for libraries present in their campus' LMS

2017-01-24 Thread Braun Hamilton, Michael R.
R.ORG Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for libraries present in their campus' LMS UCLA uses Moodle, branded as the Common Coollaboration & Learning Environment (CCLE). Eight years ago, Library IT tried to develop a Moodle block for courses, but that didn't work out -- we didn't have time to bec

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for libraries present in their campus' LMS

2017-01-24 Thread Kyle Breneman
gt; -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG] On Behalf Of > Gary Thompson > Sent: Monday, January 23, 2017 8:38 AM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for libraries present in their campus' LMS > > UCLA uses

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for libraries present in their campus' LMS

2017-01-23 Thread Kate Deibel
gton Libraries -- "When Thor shows up, it's always deus ex machina." -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG] On Behalf Of Gary Thompson Sent: Monday, January 23, 2017 8:38 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for lib

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for libraries present in their campus' LMS

2017-01-23 Thread William Denton
On 23 January 2017, Gary Thompson wrote: 2. A referral link between a course and the best LibGuide. The link simply send the registrar's course ID to our Drupal site, which then resolves and redirects to the most specific guide according to these priorities: * A course-specific guide

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for libraries present in their campus' LMS

2017-01-23 Thread Gary Thompson
UCLA uses Moodle, branded as the Common Coollaboration & Learning Environment (CCLE). Eight years ago, Library IT tried to develop a Moodle block for courses, but that didn't work out -- we didn't have time to become effective Moodle developers. After that failure, we took an approach of

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for libraries present in their campus' LMS

2017-01-23 Thread Ken Chad
: Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for libraries present in their campus' LMS We are on the same “page” as you. Haha I have been pushing to have some system that reflects that students major or areas of interest, with links to our actual home page. Ive thought about using Campus Guides from Springshare's

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for libraries present in their campus' LMS

2017-01-23 Thread Julia Bauder
Several years ago, we got our IT department to build us a custom library tab in Blackboard that appears in all courses by default. It has the picture, contact information, and an instant message widget for the liaison librarian for that department; a link to the subject or course guide for that

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for libraries present in their campus' LMS

2017-01-23 Thread William Denton
On 23 January 2017, Kyle Breneman wrote: Does your library have some kind of presence within your campus' learning management system (LMS)? If so, what does that presence look like? At York U (in Toronto) we use Moodle, and there's a Library Resources box that holds content customized for

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for libraries present in their campus' LMS

2017-01-23 Thread Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm)
We are on the same “page” as you. Haha I have been pushing to have some system that reflects that students major or areas of interest, with links to our actual home page. Ive thought about using Campus Guides from Springshare's API for the data. Writing the code that interacts and gets the

[CODE4LIB] Looking for libraries present in their campus' LMS

2017-01-23 Thread Kyle Breneman
Does your library have some kind of presence within your campus' learning management system (LMS)? If so, what does that presence look like? Here at the University of Baltimore, we use Sakai and all users have access to a tab, within Sakai, for the library. The tab leads to a page that is like