Establishing our presence in courseware: Adding library services to the virtual classroom

Information Technology and Libraries

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 38-43

  Shank, John D ^a   Dewald, Nancy H ^a  

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References (17)

1. The term "courseware" has been used for a number of years to refer to any sort of computer-based course materials. It is used here only as shorthand for course management systems or software such as Blackboard, WebCT, or ANGEL.
2. "E-commerce Comes Slowly to the Campus: The 2001 National Survey of Information Technology in U.S. Higher Education," The Campus Computing Project (Oct. 2001). Accessed Dec. 12, 2002, www.campuscomputing.net.
3. David Cohen, "Course-Management Software: Where's the Library?" Educause Review 37 (May/June 2002): 12.
4. Mick O'Leary, "New Academic Information Model Bypasses Libraries," Online 25 (July/Aug. 2001): 72-74. Commercial vendors, such as XanEdu, Questia Media, and Ebrary.com, are emerging that seek to bypass the library as information provider. This entails increased costs for faculty and students above and beyond what the library may already be paying for full-text databases.
5. Billie Peterson, "From Overheads to the Web," LIRT News 24 (Mar. 2002): 14.
6. Phillip D. Long, "Can Libraries Find a New Home in Courseware?" Syllabus 15 (March 2002). Accessed Dec. 12, 2002, www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=6136.
7. Nada Dabbage, Brenda Bannan-Ritland, and Kate Silc, "Pedagogy and Web-Based Course Authoring Tools: Issues and Implications," in Web-based Training, ed. B. H. Khan (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Educational Technology Pubns., 2001), 343-54.
8. Cohen, "Course-Management Software: Where's the Library?" 12.
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10. Christopher Cox, "Becoming Part of the Course: Using Blackboard to Extend One-Shot Library Instruction," College and Research Libraries News 63 (Jan. 2002): 11-13, 39.
11. Justine Wheeler and Leslie Founder, "Working in the Asynchronous Environment: Two Case Studies," Journal of Library Administration 32 (2001): 428.
12. Ruth Dickstein and Kari Boyd McBride, "Listserv Lemmings and Flybrarians on the Wall: A Librarian-Instructor Team Taming the Cyberbeast in the Large Classroom," College and Research Libraries 59 (Jan. 1998): 10-17.
13. Wheeler and Fournier, "Working in the Asynchronous Environment: Two Case Studies," 428.
14. Esther S. Grassian and Joan R. Kaplowitz, Information Literacy Instruction: Theory and Practice (New York: Neal-Schuman, 2001), 414.
15. Nancy K. Getty et al., "Using Courseware to Deliver Library Instruction via the Web: Four Examples," Reference Services Review 28 (2000): 354.
16. Jimmy Ghaphery and Dan Ream, "VCU's My Library: Librarians Love It. . . . Users? Well, Maybe," Information Technology and Libraries 19, no. 4 (2000). Accessed Jan. 9, 2003, www.lita.org/ital/1904_ghaphery.html.
17. For more information see George S. Machavec, "Course Management Software: Where Is the Library?" Information Intelligence Online Libraries and Microcomputers 19 (Oct. 2001): 1-2.