{"id":168,"date":"2020-04-13T05:20:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T05:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/extraordinary\/?p=168"},"modified":"2020-05-18T03:52:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T03:52:43","slug":"library-expands-service-as-instruction-goes-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/extraordinary\/story\/168\/","title":{"rendered":"Library Expands Support for Students &amp; Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the College of DuPage observes distance learning, library staff enhanced its existing online operation to include evenings and weekends. Staff is available in real-time <a href=\"https:\/\/library.cod.edu\/ask\"><strong>online<\/strong><\/a> throughout the day via chat, email, and voicemail, as well as&nbsp;online appointments. Liaison librarians are also assisting faculty with the transition and&nbsp;booking individual appointments with students.<\/p>\n<p>But the move to distance learning also presented a bigger problem \u2013 how to continue to provide technology for students without home computers.&nbsp; Through a campus-wide effort, students in need were identified and last week dedicated library staff distributed laptop computers to nearly 100 students to enable them to successfully continue their studies online.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> Glen Ellyn, Illinois<br><strong>More Information:<\/strong> https:\/\/www.cod.edu\/news\/2020\/march\/librarylaptops.aspx<\/p>\n<p>Images:&nbsp; Denise Cote, Librarian College of DuPage, 2020, CC-BY 4.0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/splot.ca\/extraordinary\/files\/2020\/04\/Librarian-mask-Denise-smaller.jpg\" alt=\"Librarian wears mask.\" class=\"wp-image-170\" width=\"180\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/splot.ca\/extraordinary\/files\/2020\/04\/Librarian-mask-Denise-smaller.jpg 720w, https:\/\/splot.ca\/extraordinary\/files\/2020\/04\/Librarian-mask-Denise-smaller-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/splot.ca\/extraordinary\/files\/2020\/04\/Librarian-mask-Denise-smaller-508x617.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the College of DuPage observes distance learning, library staff enhanced its existing online operation to include evenings and weekends. Staff is available in real-time online throughout the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[44,48,47,79,46,45,116,77,35],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cccoer","tag-college-of-dupage","tag-distance-learning","tag-expanded-hours","tag-institution","tag-laptops","tag-librarians","tag-oeglobal","tag-staff","tag-students"],"splot_meta":{"author":"Denise Cote, Librarian, College of DuPage","license":"cc-by","source":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/extraordinary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/extraordinary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/extraordinary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/extraordinary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/extraordinary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/extraordinary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/extraordinary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/extraordinary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/extraordinary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/extraordinary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splot.ca\/extraordinary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}