Education Librarians Interest Group - April 19, 2006 Meeting Notes
Location
University of Cincinnati, Curriculum Resources Center
Attendance
Dr. Gary Lare - U.C. Curriculum Resources Center, Cheryl Ghosh - U.C. Curriculum Resources Center, Cindy Ju - Eastern Kentucky University Learning Resources Center, Melissa Schutt - Eastern Kentucky University Learning Resources Center, Sarah Schaff - Greater Cincinnati Library Consortium.
- Discussed Textbook Circulation Policies
- EKU is a preview site for textbooks and just found out they can circulate textbooks that are older than one year. This is such a rich resource, these textbooks need to be made available, but how and at what cost?
- EKU does have a cataloger in the LRC.
- EKU does not charge fees or fines unless a patron has lost an item. How could they encourage patrons to return materials?
- CRC has opened its collection, and some materials may now be checked out by GCLC borrowers. A greater portion of the collection will circulate to UC students and OhioLINK patrons.
- CRC controls those materials the must remain in-house by assigning specific locations and loan rules to certain materials. This prevents GCLC members (e.g., a patron with a library card from another GCLC institution, such as the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County) from checking out certain materials and limits the materials that are lent through OhioLINK.
- Textbooks have a separate location; GCLC patrons may use them in-house only.
- CRC has seen that most GCLC borrowers (for instance, homeschoolers) want to return materials and take very good care of them – if they are motivated enough to travel to the CRC, they will be responsible.
- EKU’s library policy is to let non-university patrons only check out three books at a time, which prevents these patrons from checking out many of the LRC’s materials, such as kits.
- Educational Methods classes often rely on certain textbooks being available in the library for their classes. Discussed the importance of placing items on reserve and communicating with the education department.
- Discussed issue of communication with faculty and getting books back from faculty members within a reasonable amount of time.
- Discussed Electronic Textbooks and how they will change the future of Curriculum Resource Centers.
- How will they be handled?
- EBSS List
- Discussed Distance Education Issues
- EKU has one distance librarian who is overloaded, while at the same time, the distance education centers are growing rapidly.
- Difficulty contacting distance education faculty
- Students never come to EKU campus and therefore miss out on all the materials at the LRC
- Discussion of the role of the LRC/CRC: This should also be a place where student teachers learn how to use materials, how to create lesson plans, etc. What will happen to these distance learners if they are never receive this education?
- Discussion of Video and Web-based Education.
- Web-Based Guides
- The CRC has a series of web guides, which teach students how to search for materials.
- The CRC uses the 690 MARC field to input the grade level and media type of items, so students can search more easily.
- CRC is working on placing Bibliographies of popular topics on the website, so if you are teaching a 5th grade class on U.S. History, you could go to one site to begin determining what you would need.
- Virtual Tours – example at Cal State Fullerton: http://www.library.fullerton.edu/VideoTour/
- The whole idea with both distance education and regular education is to save students time. Most students are working and taking classes, so any effort the library can make to ease their research will keep them coming back.
- Examples: How Can I Find… http://www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/crc/curric_guides/index.html
- Discussion of Chat Reference
- Tour of CRC Library
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