Library Resources in WebCT for Instructors

Library Resources on Your E-Learning (WebCT Vista) Page

Your students can access library materials from your E-Learning (WebCT Vista) page. Here are some options for ways to lead your students to library resources:

  1. Add a link to the Libraries Home Page, your specific Class Guide, Subject Guide, Course Reserves, or other useful library Web pages on your syllabus or elsewhere in your WebCT course. Consider linking to the library liaison for your department.
  2. Add the generic Library Resources page we have created - feel free to add or delete material as you see fit. The page is available in HTML and as a Word document.
  3. Contact your library liaison to discuss other options such as:
    • Creating a customized Library Resources page
    • Embedding a librarian in your course as a TA or special resource
    • Creating assignments to improve information literacy skills in your field
    • Linking to a subject specific library blog (e.g. Science, Visual Resources)

Course Reserves

When you request materials for course reserves, a course reserve account is created for your class. Articles and short readings will be provided electronically. If we don't have an article full text online, but we have it in print, it will be scanned and a link provided. If we don't have the article in any form, please give us a copy, copyright issues will be resolved, and again, a link to an electronic copy will be provided. Books, videos, and sound recordings will be available at course reserve desks. More detailed instructions are available.

You can find the exact link to the Course Reserves for your class, by clicking into the e-reserves until you get to the screen with your name and class, where students have to usually enter a password and accept the copyright guidelines. The URL on that screen is specific to your class.

Please remember to add the password to your syllabus and near any link to the course reserves (as long as it is not on the open Web.)

We are still learning how best to provide library resources through WebCT and are open to suggestions on ways we at the libraries can help you provide a better teaching environment.

WMU Libraries Information Literacy Committee
Dianna Sachs, Instruction librarian dianna.sachs@wmich.edu
Maira Bundza, WebCT trained maira.bundza@wmich.edu
Western Michigan University Libraries
2006

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