The purpose of the Liaison Program is to develop collaborative relationships between librarians and instructors in order to provide appropriate services and resources to meet the information needs of the RCCC population.
Embedded Librarian in Blackboard
Bring the Library directly into your Blackboard classroom environment with Embedded Librarians. You choose how deep our services and resources exist in your course. Contact your Liaison for your subject area to see how we can help!
Level 1: Ask-a-Librarian Widget
Include the Ask-a-Librarian virtual librarian service widget in your course.
Level 2: Specialized Research Guide
Include a link to a Specialized Research Guide, also called LibGuides, that can assist students' research by focusing on the unique topics and resources your research assignments demand. A simple link on your Blackboard course menu can direct students to the specialized LibGuide. Ask us about options for collaboration on building such a LibGuide for your assignments.
Level 3: Discussion Board Thread for Questions
If you use your Blackboard discussion board threads for students' questions, a designated research help thread may be just what you need. Simply add one of our Research Services staff members or Librarians to your course as a TA, and we will monitor the discussion thread and answer questions as they arise.
Level 4: Full Discussion Board Monitoring
If you have multiple discussion board threads filled with students' questions, you can also add a Librarian to your course as a TA to monitor multiple threads and answer students' research questions as they arise.
Level 5: Assignments in Partnership with Librarians
Many in-depth research assignments require multiple steps to create that final product. You can collaborate with a Librarian to develop relevant, foundational assignments to assist students in the research process. You can also add a Librarian to your course as a TA, and we will grade these assignments and provide feedback for students as they progress through the research process.
Whom to Contact
Please contact Laurie Robb, Instruction Librarian, at 704-216-3683 or laurie.robb@rccc.edu to coordinate Library services in your Blackboard course. You may also contact your department's Librarian Liaison to arrange instruction.
The Librarians at Rowan-Cabarrus are ready to help your students. We are available to work with you to create effective research assignments that integrate Library resources into your course content. These assignments can foster critical thinking and promote information literacy for lifelong learning.
The purpose of the Liaison Program is to develop collaborative relationships between librarians and instructors in order to provide appropriate services and resources to meet the information needs of the Rowan-Cabarrus population.
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Laura Silva
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The primary goal of collection development is to ensure that information resources most needed to support the college’s instructional, research and service mission are available to the faculty, students and staff at RCCC. Formats may be print, electronic or media. Increasingly, resources are not physically housed in the library, but are available in electronic format and accessible to college faculty, students and staff anywhere with a computer and Internet access.
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