Help your students by embedding librarians and library resources in your Brightspace D2L classroom. Subject librarians are ready and willing to help you make Brightspace D2L as seamless as possible by including relevant library resources.
Let your students meet a librarian in Brightspace D2L. Consider contacting your Subject Librarian and adding them to your Brightspace D2L course. If we're in your course we can:
To add a librarian, just follow these steps:
Want to provide your students with links to resources needed for your class? Do you need a certain book or video on reserve in the library? You should use Leganto.
Leganto is a tool that enables you to easily create, maintain, evaluate, and share course reading lists. You can assemble materials of all types -- physical books, ebooks, journal articles, newspaper articles, websites, videos -- and using the Leganto search feature you can easily find and add these items from the library.
Visit the Leganto Reading Lists page to learn more.
If you want to give students links to many resources, use Leganto Reading Lists.
But if you just need to figure out a way to save a URL for yourself, or send single items to faculty or students, then you're looking for a permanent link. Some of our databases make it easy to get links to items, but in others you'll want to add the EZProxy prefix information.
Many databases give you access to a permanent link to the article. They often refer to this link as the permanent link, persistent link, or permalink. Databases have these links in different places, so here are some examples:
Contact your Subject Librarian for more help linking to articles in library databases.
If you can't locate the permanent link, or if you want to link to the full database and not just one article, you can add the EZProxy prefix to a link. Off-campus access to library resources is made possible by our EZproxy server, which prompts you to login from off-campus. If you want to share a link with other people at St. Kate's, make sure the URL includes the EZproxy prefix:
https://pearl.stkate.edu/login?url=
For example, the URL for accessing JSTOR is:
https://pearl.stkate.edu/login?url=http://www.jstor...
To add the prefix, copy the link to the item you want from the database and paste it into this EZProxy box and click the Add Proxy button to retrieve the full URL:
For more help with EZProxy prefixes, contact our Systems & Online Services Librarian Christina Koss: cmkoss@stkate.edu | 651.690.6693