Library presence in Blackboard/LMS

[Nayak, Harish]

Extending the approach that Eric mentioned this morning, we've implemented a way that eliminates the need for middleware. We do this by (1) establishing a consistent naming convention for our course-related LibGuides, based on Blackboard template variables and (2) leveraging a custom building block to direct users to the correct LibGuide based on this same information.  Such was our strategy to seamlessly transition to LibGuides from our coURses system last year without jeopardizing our Blackboard presence.  We've starting exploring SpringShare's LTI capabilities so we can transition away from our custom Blackboard code.       

Harish


Harish Nayak
Senior Digital Services Analyst | River Campus Libraries | University of Rochester
585-276-3079 | hnayak at library.rochester.edu


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From: Web technologies in libraries <WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU> on behalf of Bellmore, Eric N. <bellm1en at CMICH.EDU>
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2016 9:15 AM
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Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Library presence in Blackboard/LMS

We have a link for "Library" in every course shell that sends them directly to the corresponding libguide for that course or to the library homepage if there is no libguide. It's a simple piece of middleware we wrote that is based off a database table of links our librarians maintain.

-eric


Eric Bellmore
Manager of Web Services
CMU Libraries
Central Michigan University
Park Library 204a | 989.774.3946


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From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Jonathan Bloy
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 5:18 PM
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Subject: [WEB4LIB] Library presence in Blackboard/LMS

To those of you at academic libraries that have a presence in Blackboard (or your institution's LMS), what do you have there?  Bonus points if you can share a link that's publicly available.

Our college is going through a reorganization of our Blackboard site.  They will be offering us a library tab at the top. (woo hoo!)  Our options range from creating custom boxes with info that show up depending on who's logged in (student, faculty, etc.), creating some general links to our research guides and such, or just pointing the tab to the library website.

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Jonathan Bloy
Librarian, Head of Digital Initiatives
Oscar Rennebohm Library
Edgewood College
Madison, Wisconsin
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