Libraries and Online Learning

2021

A Magazine for MU Faculty & Staff

5 WAYS FACULTY CAN PREPARE FOR THEIR ONLINE COURSE p. 4

HOW TO FIND THE RIGHT OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (OER)

UNDERSTANDING COPYRIGHT & LIBRARY RESERVES

p. 6

p. 8

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Dean's Welcome

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5 Ways to Prepare

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Finding OERs

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Library Instruction

08

Copyright & Reserves

09

Interlibrary Loan

10

Morrow Library

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2020 At a Glance

EXCLUSIVE

DR. BROOKS Dr. Monica Brooks, Associate Vice President for Libraries & Online Learning / Dean of University Libraries, on how the MU libraries continue to serve the campus community.

It is truly no secret that everyone

Likewise, our rapid shift to virtual and

was forced to cope with various

online learning during multi-state

aspects of the pandemic and an

closures in the spring of 2020 tested

aftermath that will have a lasting

our ingenuity and dedication to varied

impact on how libraries and online

learning styles and needs. I am proud

learning units everywhere serve

to represent a talented cadre of faculty

faculty and students. Using 2020

and staff in the MU Libraries and

as a “test-run,” I believe that I can

Online Learning unit that not only rose

safely say our innovative approach

to this challenge but also continue to

to serving our users has

expand services that you will be able to

allowed us to boast “no breaks in

deploy in your research and studies

services.”

while at Marshall.

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FEATURE

5 Ways to Prepare for Your Online Course Since March 2020, the MU library faculty have endured all of the same challenges as their peers across the campus, the US, and the world.

Luckily, they understand that the skill and knowledge the Online Learning team brings to the table makes their jobs easier, and have worked with MU colleagues to curate this list of the best practices for preparing your online course content; tips that can be used any time, by either an 'online novice' or an advanced technology user.

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BE PREPARED:

If recording a class lecture or course presentation, make a to-do list for every on-screen task you'll complete; a script for everything you'll say; and have tabs open to the correct page, or presentations already on the right slide.

1 - Be Curious.

Anytime we have to change our way of thinking and our habit of doing, we must remember to explore all options, becoming familiar with new platforms, techniques, and best practices. One easy way to keep up is by joining MU's Distance Education Support Community team.

2 - Be Practical.

While the exploration phase is crucial, we must also take a logical approach to adapting our F2F courses for virtual delivery. This means keeping you AND your students sane while delivering a quality education. For example, one MU professor created a new Portfolio structure, letting her students choose which projects to complete from a menu of options.

3 - Be Brave.

Any new territory is scary, which is an annoying, frustrating, and stressful feeling for those professors who have successfully sailed the same ocean for years. So we need to be patient with ourselves (and with the process), understand that we'll need help from the experts, and know-how to contact them.

4 - Be A Student.

Whenever we use new technologies to create new experiences for our students, we must take time to review the finished product in the same mode as our students. For example: are we asking them to view the videos on Blackboard?

Then we must be prepared to answer any questions they have about how to do that by watching those videos ourselves from the Student Preview mode.

5 - Be Online Ready.

From tips on creating and managing recordings, to instructions for delivering your virtual class, to exam proctoring, Blackboard Tools, Quality Matters training, info about technical assistance, and more: the Online Learning team and their partners at Marshall University will get you not just ready, but comfortable, for preparing your course and interacting with your online students: www.marshall.edu/ design-center/online-ready

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OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES "Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others. OER include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge." ~ William & Flora Hewlett Foundation There are five primary components to the use of Open Educational Resources (OERs), as per David Wiley.

Those include the ability for materials to be retained, reused, revised, remixed, and redistributed: These components make it easier for faculty to find textbooks and other teaching materials that are not only flexible for them to use, but free for their students to use.

Cutting down on educational costs is something the MU Libraries are always trying to accomplish, so please don't hesitate to reach out to your Library Partner Team with any questions.

Faculty must also be sure to check out the library's Guide to OER, created by librarians Larry Sheret and Lindsey Harper (pictured). The guide includes links for finding and using these robust academic materials: https://libguides.marshall.edu/OpenEducational Resources

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Larry Sheret, Scholarly Communication & OER Librarian sheret@marshall.edu

Lindsey Harper, Archivist and Record Management Librarian harper166@marshall.edu

LIBRARY INSTRUCTION Let the library faculty teach your students how to conduct collegelevel research Do you assign a research project to your students?

Have their submissions revealed a quality not quite up to par with college-level work?

Are you wondering how to ensure your students can fulfill the appropriate research needs to meet your expectations?

Experienced research and instruction faculty librarians are available for your information literacy needs.

Embedded sessions are carefully and thoughtfully planned in conjunction with the course professor so that librarians can design instruction that supports critical thinking, addresses course assignments, and fosters information literacy in students.

During the altered university schedule for majority online courses, these library sessions are completely virtual, and faculty can request their session to be either 100% synchronous, 100% asynchronous, or a mixture of both.

Pictured: Associate Professor Eryn Roles, the Research & Instruction Team's leader for scheduling library sessions, and COLA partner (roles1@marshall.edu)

Additionally, the research librarians are available to brainstorm unique approaches to adapting your research assignment to fully take advantage of our online scholarly resources. They can also assist with reviewing your course syllabi to see if any paid resources can be replaced by OERs (see p. 6), Library Reserves (see p. 8), or if you might benefit from using our Textbook Loan Program.

And when your students may benefit more from one-on-one research support, we offer virtual 30- or 60minute appointments to get them the resource and citation help they need, at a time that makes sense for their hectic schedules. Learn about all of our instruction services at https://libguides.marshall.edu/instruction.

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Copyright & Library Reserves KNOWING THE RULES KEEPS YOU SAFE AND SANE

When the college classroom experience moved

https://www.marshall.edu/it/copyright-

online in 2020, faculty needed to learn a lot about

education/

online learning all at once, and it would be easy to

- On this MUIT page, you'll find information

accidentally overlook a few things. Unfortunately, just

on MU's copyright policy, copyright law, file

like our students are responsible for knowing the

sharing, penalties, FAQ, and more.

rules of MU's Academic Dishonesty policy, so too are faculty responsible for informing themselves of

https://marshall.libanswers.com/Faculty_

Copyright Law.

Resources/faq/212501

Fortunately, Marshall University's Library, Online

reserves to find the most updated info.

- Visit the library's FAQ page for course

Learning, and Information Technology departments have provided the most up-to-date and relevant

https://libguides.marshall.edu/copyright

information for faculty to review when trying to

- This MU Library guide addresses Fair Use, what

determine what, if any, of their course materials can

is and is not protected, and links to helpful

be made freely available to students via Blackboard

resources that discuss the essential information

or other university-approved delivery methods.

for faculty.

Pictured: Dena Callicoat Laton, Student Success Coordinator for Distance Education and Copyright Education Specialist (dena.laton@marshall.edu)

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WE DON'T HAVE EVERYTHING, BUT WE CAN PROBABLY GET IT FOR YOU.

INTER LIBRARY LOAN IN THE SPOTLIGHT

One of the main purposes of an academic library is to get you the information you need, when you need it. If it were up to the MU librarians, our library buildings would be full of anything our MU faculty or students might ever desire for their educational pursuits. But, if that were the case, there would be no money left for anything else, and no space left, either.

Fortunately, MU Library's Information Delivery Services department (technically IDS, but often known as ILL, which stands for Interlibrary Loan) has been taking care of our campus research (or entertainment!) needs for decades.

Thanks to our membership in both local and international consortiums, the lDS staff can fulfill your requests for library materials that we don't have, such as books, journal articles, DVDs, music scores, magazine articles, conference papers, theses, book chapters, newspaper articles, and more. We pick up the tab for the shipping costs so that you have one less worry, and we notify you every step of the way with updates, often able to electronically deliver the items to your online account.

New to IDS? Visit www. marshall. edu/library/services/ids/ to learn more, and visit our FAQ pages for more info.

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Special Collections Government Documents Morrow Stacks “As libraries move into the digital age, Morrow Library, recognizing the fact that all knowledge, to have a strong foundation, builds upon preceding knowledge and resources, is proud to take on the responsibility of respecting and maintaining our college’s history and extensive traditional resources, while moving into the 21st century.” - Paris Webb, Digital Resources/Systems Support Librarian

Morrow Library, which was first opened to the public in 1930, houses countless treasures and resources and has been called the Memory of Marshall University. Morrow's Special Collections and Archives include yearbooks, plane crash memorial information, rare books, privately donated collections, state & university archives, and more, and are continually being digitized so you can search the holdings online at www.marshall.edu/special-collections/ Morrow Library also became a selective depository library in 1925, and is the secondlargest federal depository for government publications in the state of West Virginia.

You can learn more about these documents, and access online resources, at www.marshall.edu/library/libraries/govdocs Additionally, Morrow Stacks houses two-thirds of the university's print book collection and is discoverable online, Learn more: www.marshall.edu/library/libraries/morrowstacks/ LOL | 10

Pictured: The campus interior's entrance to Morrow Library. Inset: The 3rd Ave. side of Morrow Library.

The archivists, records management, and cataloging librarians also play a large role in updating, maintaining, and curating certain content from Morrow's holdings for public access via Marshall Digital Scholar (MDS), the institutional repository (IR) that brings together all of our University's research under one umbrella, with an aim to preserve and provide access to that research. Faculty can learn more about MDS, including how to upload their own scholarly work, via https://mds.marshall.edu/.

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20 AT A 20 GLANCE

MARSHALL UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES & ONLINE LEARNING Virtually serving our campus community during the Covid Pandemic

109,243

10,602

Number of total views to our Online Library Guides (Mar. 16, 2020 - Nov. 20, 2020)

Number of library materials borrowed with our No-Touch Policy (March 2020 - November 2020)

3,654

2,782

Number of Drinko Library and VHUB Bookings (Fall 2020 Semester)

Number of library, research, and instruction interactions between students, staff, and librarians (Mar. 16, 2020 - Nov. 30, 2020)

34

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Number of students served by the Virtual Textbook Loan Program (Fall 2020 Semester)

Number of new fully-online programs added in 2020

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