Ask a Librarian: Integrating Library Resources into Course Design

Librarians and instructional designers, working together?! It’s not as far-fetched as it may seem. Discover library resources that support student achievement while identifying strategies to engage librarians in course design.

Claire Dinkelman received her MLIS in 2018 from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Beginning in August 2018, she became the subject librarian at Marquette for online learning as well as for health sciences, biology and chemistry. Within her department, she is the LibGuides point-person. She is also the subject liaison for the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Office of Digital Learning. She works with instructional designers to find appropriate online course materials, while fielding questions about copyright. Together her department and the Office of Digital Learning have developed several online videos to serve as introductions to the library and its resources.

Eric Kowalik has over a decade of experience collaborating with faculty and librarians, using Desire2Learn and a variety of multimedia software, to design and develop online courses and learning objects on a variety of topics. Projects of note include assisting in the development of over 50 fully online courses from a variety of disciplines for Marquette’s online programs. Creating a suite of open source interactive information literacy modules that were embedded in 80 courses of the First Year English program, which is taken by all incoming Marquette undergraduates. Collaborated on the development and facilitation of a three-week online course introducing instruction librarians to the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm.