Description
Nongovernmental groups, state governmental agencies, and of course, the federal government put timely, authoritative, practice-oriented reports up on the Web with great speed. This presentation will provide the rationale and procedures for adding freely available Web sites to the online catalog to augment and support curricular needs and provide some mechanisms for students to find and access the resources easily.
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS: Bobby Bothmann is Electronic Access/Catalog Librarian at Minnesota State University Mankato. Kellian Clink is Reference and Instruction Librarian at Minnesota State University Mankato.
Start Date
16-3-2011 1:15 PM
End Date
16-3-2011 2:15 PM
"Free Puppies:" Integrating Web Resources into the Catalog
Nongovernmental groups, state governmental agencies, and of course, the federal government put timely, authoritative, practice-oriented reports up on the Web with great speed. This presentation will provide the rationale and procedures for adding freely available Web sites to the online catalog to augment and support curricular needs and provide some mechanisms for students to find and access the resources easily.
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS: Bobby Bothmann is Electronic Access/Catalog Librarian at Minnesota State University Mankato. Kellian Clink is Reference and Instruction Librarian at Minnesota State University Mankato.
Comments
Published paper may be found at: Robert L. Bothmann, Kellian Clink (2011), "Free Puppies": Integrating Web Resources into Online Catalogs, in Anne Woodsworth (ed.) Librarianship in Times of Crisis (Advances in Librarianship, Volume 34), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.159-181. DOI:10.1108/S0065-2830(2011)0000034011