Draft Minutes

November 22, 2006 | Langara College Room

Attendees: Gordon Coleman, ELN; Judy Growe, Langara; Liza Hutchison, Langara; Katherine Miller, UBC; Patti Romanko, Douglas; Barbara Webb, TRU

Guest: Scott Leslie, BC Campus

Agenda:

Participation in SOL*R

Scott Leslie showed the group the SOL*R website and went though some of the steps of uploading a learning object to the respository.

• There was discussion about what the group may want in terms of functionality from the repository.

• To add materials to the SOL*R repository, each person needs to create a BC Campus log-in.

• Learning objects in the SOL*R repository can be found without creating a log in. They are OAI compliant. Versions of tutorials are persistent. Also, we can use a URL to point to a list of library resources (one way of identifying all of the library-specific resources).

• When adding materials to the SOL*R repository, when selecting format, chose zip file if you have multiple files associated with the learning object.

Gordon discussed the benefits of creating a "community of librarians", which would allow us to search for learning objects which had been created by librarians. Scott described different ways of meeting that goal.

• 1) First, we will need to create a way of identifying which BC Campus accounts belong to librarians. There could be a radio button added to the original BC Campus account form, however, that would take time to create. Scott expressed that it would be something that could be solved either by contacting him or another method.

• 2) Create an item definition for "library and information literacy" learning objects

2 types of contracts to license the learning objects under:

• 1) BC Commons = accessible only by the BC Post-Secondary community.
• 2) Creative Commons = open to the world. Note, this type of Creative Commons license also allows commercial use of this intellectual property. There was some discussion about whether we and our colleagues would be comfortable with this type of Creative Commons licence. Creative Commons licenses can be written to include open access to all who are using the material for educational or non-commercial purposes.

Scott identified 3 ways we could approach this project:

• 1) Change the labelling of the category from "Education and Library Studies" to "Library and Information Literacy". Start using the repository and then build from our experiences to create more functionality in the future when we have more information to work with on our usage of this repository.

• 2) Create a "bucket of librarians" = a way of identifying which BC Campus Accounts belong to librarians. Also, create the new item definition for library learning objects.

• 3) In addition to the points identified in 1 & 2, we would also create a private view of the respository from our own ALPS portal. We could have additional search functionality.

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