Connecting with Faculty and Students through Course-Related LibGuides

Abstract

Academic librarians face increasing challenges when trying to connect their services and resources with faculty and students, especially as courses move online and are taught by adjunct faculty. Online research guides, most commonly LibGuides, can be automatically inserted into course shells within Learning Management Systems (LMS) using Learning Tool Interoperability (LTI) protocols, but an alternative to automatic integration is for librarians to match and suggest appropriate subject guides to faculty for inclusion in their courses. Personally matching and recommending LibGuides to faculty can be an effective form of library outreach and relationship-building. This article describes a pilot project of suggesting specific LibGuides to faculty and its success in forging and strengthening several library-department connections.

Knowledge Management Organization in the Context of LibGuides of Sumy State University Library

“…The SumDU Library applies its own marketing strategies to promote LibGuides to the community (students, teachers, scientists) of each faculty/institute of SumDU by organizing and holding meetings. The library should promote the use of LibGuides in teaching activities (Clever, 2020). Thanks to the subject librarians, there is constant communication with the faculties/institutes, as a result of which the university community's suggestions regarding updating content on the LibGuides website are taken into account and implemented.…”

“…The topic of the development and use of LibGuides is widely presented in the studies of foreign scientists (Mwanzu, Nakaziba, Karungi, Ayebazibwe, & Gatiti, 2022;Barker & Hoffman, 2021;Logan & Spence, 2021;Goodsett, Miles, & Nawalaniec, 2020;Paschke-Wood, Dubinsky, & Sult, 2020;Clever, 2020;Tyson & Dinneen, 2020). Abroad, LibGuides are a fairly common practice, it is a convenient format for presenting information, which significantly saves time for students, teachers, and scientists to search for the necessary scientific and educational resources.…”

“…LibGuides play a special role in the informational support of students and teachers (Clever, 2020). Research guides or LibGuides can be developed and implemented to better meet the needs of students by focusing on pedagogical support of student research and information literacy skill creation (Paschke-Wood, Dubinsky, & Sult, 2020).…”