The Question
I am interested in discovering who is managing eReserve using a content management
system (CMS) attached to a learning management system (LMS). I suspect that your
institutions are predominantly using Blackboard or WebCT with Hive (from Harvest
Road) or Equella (The Learning Edge). In many cases they may be using a CMS. In most
cases you are probably managing eReserve out of your library system. However I'd like
to know who has moved to a different model using the CMS attached to a LMS.
The Summary
The summary may not be completely correct as I’ve done a little interpretation of the
responses. The detailed responses are further below.
Institution
Bond
Charles Darwin
University
Griffith University
QUT
Southern Cross University
Swinburne
LMS
Blackboard
Blackboard
CMS
No
Not yet
eReserve
In-house + ILMS (Aleph)
Greenstone
Hive
Not yet
No
Equella
CMS + LMS
In-house
Custom designed
ILMS (Dynix)
University of Canberra
Blackboard
Blackboard + OLT
Blackboard
Blackboard +
WebCT
WebCT
CMS + ILMS (Spydus)
UQ
UTAS
UWA
Wollongong
Blackboard
WebCT Vista
WebCT
Blackboard
Docutek
Equella
Equella
Equella
Hive
Equella
Fez + Fedora
ILMS (Horizon)
CMS
In-house
The Responses (with some editing)
Institution
Bond
Response
At Bond we use Blackboard as the LMS but do not have a CMS attached
to it. We currently use the Digital Resources Register (in-house produced
by UTS) to manage eReserve content which is linked to the course
reserve module in Aleph. Should we obtain a CMS in future to manage
learning objects then we may also look at using it for eReserve content.
Regards,
Mark
Mark Sutherland
Associate Director, Information Access Services
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Institution
Charles Darwin
University
Griffith
University
Response
We are using Greenstone (www.greenstone.org) for our E-Reserve now
and link directly to it from blackboard.
We are implementing a open source repository for the RQF requirements
and will probably move E-Reserve to that software when it is established.
We are looking into either Harvest Road Hive (being tested now) or
trying to use the repository software behind blackboard as well next year.
Mr Anthony Hornby
Associate Director, Resources and Technology
Griffith is using a combination of Hive and Blackboard LMS.
We have developed our own 'building blocks' between the two.
Martin
QUT
Martin Borchert
Associate Director, Access Services
QUT has a project planned to investigate moving our digitised Ereserve
Course Materials Database (CMD) to ARROW and this would involve
use of a "Building Block" on the Blackboard LMS (Learning
Management System). I understand that ARROW would be the storage
repository and the Blackboard Building Block would form the CMS
(Content management system) attached to the Blackboard LMS. This is
one option that we will investigate. It might not be the way we
ultimately choose to go. A lot depends on the capabilities of Blackboard
which we are still discovering.
At the moment the Blackboard LMS (and OLT) interrogates our e
reserve which is a locally written ORACLE database/web interface
accessible via our University portal QUT Virtual. Our repository of
documents is currently stored on a web server. We don’t use our Library
mgt system for this.
Southern Cross
University
Carolyn Young
Associate Director Information Resources
I'm not sure if negative responses are useful to you, but thought I
would let you know in any case how we manage eReserve at Southern
Cross University Library. We currently use a custom designed
(designed by local firm called NTech Media) database-driven web
interface which is independent of the Library Management System.
Documents are stored on a local server. We have no plans at this
stage to use a CMS attached to an LMS.
Craig Littler
Library Services Manager
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Institution
Swinburne
Response
Swinburne’s Online Reserve is currently part of the reserve module in
our catalogue (Dynix).
We are evaluating whether the Online Reserve content could be migrated
to Equella, to better integrate with Blackboard and WebCT.
We are checking to see if such a set up could improve current workflows
while maintaining appropriate control of quality and copyright
considerations.
Currently, academics submit material for online reserve to the library,
which then sends a catalogue link back to be copied into the Blackboard
or WebCT environment. It is hoped that a move to using a CMS (like
Equella) in conjunction with an LMS would alleviate some of the manual
processing involved in the current Online Reserve accessioning
procedures.
Gary Hardy
Associate Director, Information Support
University of
Canberra
At UC we will be moving to using The Learning Edge. UC plans to use
The Learning Edge as the content management system not only for
eReserve (within the ILMS) but also for the University's Learning
Management System. That is, a content repository that is independent
from (but integrated with) both the library system and the learning
management system.
Currently the University is using Docutek not only as a content
management system but also to create the 'presentation layer' - the
student view of the objects arranged by unit.
Helena Zobec
Associate Librarian
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Institution
UQ
Response
At UQ we’re currently running a 12 month trial of Equella (Learning
Edge) as a content store under Blackboard. We’re also investing a bit of
time in developing a set of web-services on our institutional repository
via which Equella and/or Blackboard (via a building block) can
interrogate the IR and return objects stored therein.
Our repository is based on Fez+Fedora and is also starting to house much
of the course reserve materials which would previously have been held in
locally developed relational databases and file-stores. Building on our
current IR strategy we aim to store objects once for re-purposing and reuse as much as possible.
So far things look promising though we are keenly interested in the most
recent build of Equella which may address some of the local concerns
about copyright management and reporting.
I’m happy for anyone interested in greater detail about these projects to
contact me off-list.
UTAS
UWA
Wollongong
Andrew Bennett
Executive Manager, Library Technology Service
UTAS is using an add-on to its Horizon system for eReserve. We have
decided to go with Equella for our digital content management system
and learning object management system, and will be investigating using
Equella for eReserve. We'll be interested in responses to your enquiry.
We are using WebCT VISTA
Di Worth
Associate Librarian (Systems & Collection Management)
UWA are using the Reading List Management System which is a
component of the Hive software (CMS) with WebCT (LMS)
The University chose Equella as a learning object management system
and is currently piloting a number of projects with different faculties. We
currently hold our e-readings simply on a server but are interested in
exploring using Equella as the e-readings repository. Equella used the
e-readings capability, in particular the ability to prepare the CAL
usage reports, as one of their selling points.
Helen Mandl
Associate Librarian, Planning and Development
Peter Green
Curtin University
16 April 2007
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