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Passaic County Community College

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http://pccc.libguides.com/profile.php?uid=1963

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http://dl.njit.edu/serendipity

LibGuides Presentation from Northeast Connect Conference

I did a presentation at the Northeast Connect Conference on our use of LibGuides at Passaic County Community College. I called the the session "TEAR DOWN THE WALLS: LibGuides and Evolving Learning Spaces." I think that learning spaces continue to evolve as web tools further erase the physical walls of classrooms, libraries and other educational settings. LibGuides may have been designed for libraries, but at PCCC we are using it as a collaborative tool for courses.

The presentation was done in two parts: first, a brief PowerPoint overview of how PCCC first started using LibGuides and its features, and then a closer look at those features using a demo LibGuide. You can see the demo Guide and the PowerPoint at http://pccc.libguides.com/content.php?pid=5263&sid=189365

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Any Blogging Teachers in the New Jersey area?

The New Jersey College English Association (NJCEA) is soliciting panels and papers considering a broad range of literary and composition topics for its annual conference on March 21, 2009 at Seton Hall University in New Jersey.

I'm putting together a panel on blogging and would love to connect with some English teachers (or other disciplines, particularly at the college… Continue

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At 8:32pm on November 13, 2008, Rafia Mirza said…: Hi Ken,
We sometimes work in collaboration with faculty, but the pages are mostly done by librarians to show students/faculty what resources the library has for them.

At 12:39pm on November 11, 2008, Marc Bertone said…: Yes, that event has been posted for quite awhile. I believe that we pulled the information from the webpage, so if you would like to update the event I can delete the one I created, and you can add your own. Let me know if you want to do that.

At 12:23pm on November 11, 2008, Lisa Wallis said…: A couple of our librarians have requested faculty access to pages so they can collaborate, but we are not allowing faculty to develop pages on their own.

At 11:33am on November 11, 2008, Beth Russell said…: Hi Ken,

Nice to meet you Ken! At our university we are only using LibGuides in the Library. I don't believe that teaching faculty across campus have access to our license. We are using them as research guides for our students, whether it be for a specific class (ENG 102) or a particular product (EBSCO 2.0). I hadn't thought of non-library faculty using LibGuides but it sounds like a great idea. What has your experience at your institution been like using LibGuides in this regard?

--Beth

At 11:29am on November 11, 2008, Talia Resendes said…: Hi Ken,

No. Generally, we collaborate with faculty by getting the assignment or course outline. We then design the LibGuide and submit to the faculty member for suggestions. We then make some minor modifications and then guide goes live.

At 9:06am on November 3, 2008, Bill Fontaine said…: Hi Ken,

Our library does a fair amount of collaboration with our Writing Program and the peer tutoring center (RWIT), which integrates tutoring in writing, information technology (spreadsheets, web page authoring, movie editing, etc.) and research. Most of our Guides are subject based, but bibliographers do tend to use LibGuides to create course guides, which they set to "private," and supply the url to the students via email or Blackboard.

--Bill