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Creating Interactive Course Assignment
PagesThe OSU Libraries ICAP Project
Coalition for Networked Information
Fall 2007 Task Force Meeting
Kim Griggs, Jane Nichols, Margaret Mellinger
ICAP Project Goals
• Connect students with quality library information when and where they need it for course assignments.
• Enable librarians to employ traditional library resources with Web 2.0 features in easily created and maintained web pages.
ICAP Project Strategies
• Determine the right approach– Course Management System, Content Management
System, Campus Portal, Broader library software environment, Custom Solution?
• Get people with the right skill sets – Hired a programmer to develop the tool
• Use an agile development cycle– Ruby on Rails provides a framework to quickly develop
prototypes and incorporate user feedback
• Perform usability testing throughout the process– Include stakeholders early and often
ICAPs: Connecting Students to Libraries
To help students more easily access quality
library information, we developed the Interactive Course Assignment Pages (ICAPs).
ICAPs are dynamic web pages that integrate
Web 2.0 features, chat and RSS feeds, etc.
with traditional library content, such as catalogs and article databases.
ICAP Example
ICAP Publishing System: For and By LibrariansLibrarians have enough to do and
maintaining static HTML pages is tedious and time
consuming.
OSU Libraries decided to develop the ICAP
Tool, which enables librarians to easily create,
manage, and publish ICAPs.
The ICAP tool provides libraries with asystem librarians can administer through a web browser.
ICAP Tool Screenshot
Initial feedback, assessment and analysis
• Librarians– Forums, usability testing, meetings, use
statistics
• Students– Surveys, emails, use statistics, chats and
conversations
• Faculty– Surveys, emails, conversations
Lessons Learned
The ICAP project provided openings for discussion with
campus about how the library supports student
learning.
Lessons learned • Learned a lot about the time and energy people need to
spend to adopt new software• Do the background research, but don’t get stuck there• Use case scenarios and requirements documents• Incorporating usability testing and training facilitated
communication and feedback• Built capacity, for the team and for the librarians.• Learned to work through inevitable difficulties in project
management
Future directions
Image credits
• Ryan Sawhill. 3756 – pause http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryran/141371051/
• ARendle's photos. Secret garden gate open. http://www.flickr.com/photos/arendle/381210322/
• Valley Library (Oregon State University. A Jolly Librarian. http://www.flickr.com/photos/osuvalleylibrary/489970803/