Leabharlann UCD UCD Library
"Watch us on our YouTube channel"
Supporting students through
electronic media at UCD Library
James Molloy and Michelle Latimer
A&SL Annual Seminar
24th February 2012
E-Learning at UCD Library – A Case Study
Why?
10% more students:10% less staff (UCD) 10% more students:16% less staff (Library)
E-Learning at UCD Library – A Case Study
Inception
• UCD Library’s Strategic Plan
• A working group formed
E-Learning at UCD Library – A Case Study
Goals
–Provide online support for students
–Content including online videos and tutorials
•Basics
•Navigate
•Locate
•Awareness
E-Learning at UCD Library – A Case Study
Goals
–Ensure widest access to the content across campus
•Library and campus websites
•Embedded on Blackboard
•Accessible on mobile devices
E-Learning at UCD Library – A Case Study
Plan
Prepare May/June
Produce
Edit June/July
Finalise
Promote July/Aug
E-Learning at UCD Library – A Case Study
Planning/Schedules
• Identify Skill base
• Homework
• UCD Media Services
• Designate work
www.Informationliteracy.ie University of Wisconsin
Arizona State University University of Leeds
E-Learning at UCD Library – A Case Study
Planning/Schedules
• Identify Skill base
• Homework
• UCD Media Services
• Designate work
E-Learning at UCD Library – A Case Study
Planning/Schedules
• Budget
• Regular meetings
• Time is the essence (August deadline)
E-Learning at UCD Library – A Case Study
Production (Videos)
• Storyboards
• Prepare, prepare, prepare
• Give direction and take advice
• Editing (feedback)
E-Learning at UCD Library – A Case Study
Production (Videos)
• Storyboards
• Prepare, prepare, prepare
• Give direction and take advice
• Editing (feedback)
E-Learning at UCD Library – A Case Study
Production(online tutorial)
•Sub Group
•Storyboard/Content
•Software
E-Learning at UCD Library – A Case Study
Finding items on your Reading List.
•Find a book in the UCD Catalogue
•Find a chapter in a book
•Find an electronic journal article
•Can’t find the electronic article? – find a
print copy
E-Learning at UCD Library – A Case Study
Challenges
•Software
•Sustainability
•Summer
E-Learning at UCD Library – A Case Study
Success
E-Learning at UCD Library – A Case Study
“The adjudication panel considered that this project was
an excellent example of a sustainable project with the
potential for expansion and wide roll-out across the university”.
E-Learning at UCD Library – A Case Study
Current work/Next steps
•Skills base
•Development of the group
•Current projects
E-Learning at UCD Library – A Case Study
James Molloy Assistant Librarian James Joyce Library University College Dublin Belfield Dublin 4 [email protected] 00 353 1 716 7513
Michelle Latimer Senior Library Assistant
Veterinary Medicine Library University College Dublin
Belfield Dublin 4
[email protected] 00 353 1 716 6266
http://www.youtube.com/user/UCDLibrary
E-Learning at UCD Library – A Case Study
• Susan Boyle Assistant Librarian HSL (Nursing,
Midwifery and Health Systems)
• Ursula Byrne Head of Development & Strategic
Planning
• Peter Clarke Library IT Services
• Jennifer Collery Assistant Librarian HSL
(Medicine and Medical Science)
• Monica Glynn Library Services Officer
• Celia Kenny Senior Library Assistant (JJL)
• Michelle Latimer Senior Library Assistant
Veterinary Medicine
• James Molloy Assistant Librarian Reader Services
• Gerard Walsh Liaison Librarian (JJL)
