Comments on: Sudden Thoughts And Second Thoughts http://acrlog.org/2009/10/29/sudden-thoughts-and-second-thoughts-20/ Blogging by and for academic and research librarians Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:43:31 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Olivia http://acrlog.org/2009/10/29/sudden-thoughts-and-second-thoughts-20/comment-page-1/#comment-143955 Olivia Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:56:30 +0000 http://acrlog.org/?p=2090#comment-143955 Regarding the Blackboard/NBC thing, at the college where I work the online courses have access to a HUGE repository of streaming media that is not accessible to students not taking online courses, and the library is essentially cut out. I won't got into detail here, but it throws library initiatives toward licensing streaming media through a loop. Regarding the Blackboard/NBC thing, at the college where I work the online courses have access to a HUGE repository of streaming media that is not accessible to students not taking online courses, and the library is essentially cut out. I won’t got into detail here, but it throws library initiatives toward licensing streaming media through a loop.

]]> By: Barbara http://acrlog.org/2009/10/29/sudden-thoughts-and-second-thoughts-20/comment-page-1/#comment-143954 Barbara Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:26:34 +0000 http://acrlog.org/?p=2090#comment-143954 Interesting development with content providers selling through BB. I suspect that the "who will pay" question could be answers with "as many people as possible, for the same content multiple times." For years EBSCO and InfoTrac have bundled database content with textbooks and this content is marketed as a wonderful add-on to the textbook. Of course the student gets to pay for what the library already licensed for them and the student is steered away from the library. But a busy adjunct (and adjuncts are now over half our faculty) might find it a lot easier to stick with what comes with the textbook and not bother trying to include broader information literacy instruction into their courses. I hope campuses reject this practice in which it would be really easy to neglect library resources and pay twice for the same stuff (that is limited to when you're enrolled in the course, I suppose? Not available if you're taking a course where the professor doesn't use BB?) All the more reason libraries need to be involved in how decisions are made about CMSs. Interesting development with content providers selling through BB. I suspect that the “who will pay” question could be answers with “as many people as possible, for the same content multiple times.” For years EBSCO and InfoTrac have bundled database content with textbooks and this content is marketed as a wonderful add-on to the textbook. Of course the student gets to pay for what the library already licensed for them and the student is steered away from the library. But a busy adjunct (and adjuncts are now over half our faculty) might find it a lot easier to stick with what comes with the textbook and not bother trying to include broader information literacy instruction into their courses.

I hope campuses reject this practice in which it would be really easy to neglect library resources and pay twice for the same stuff (that is limited to when you’re enrolled in the course, I suppose? Not available if you’re taking a course where the professor doesn’t use BB?) All the more reason libraries need to be involved in how decisions are made about CMSs.

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