libguides in academic libraries
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Event: Metadata and Web 2.0 seminarOrganised by: Cataloguing & Indexing Group in ScotlandHeld on Friday 2nd March at the National Library of Scotland, EdinburghPresented by: Vicki CormieTRANSCRIPT
Libguides at St AndrewsVicki CormieSenior Academic Liaison LibrarianMarch 2011
Libguides
Why we decided to use Libguides
• New Academic Liaison unit at St Andrews• ‘Chalk and talk’ classes• Lack of hands on opportunities for students• Needed to provide resources for students • Solution had to be fast to create
Libguides
Many types of boxes are supported:• Rich text box• Links• Multimedia• User Input Boxes• Miscellaneous Boxes
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Links• will record outgoing stats on clicks• you can add in a proxy URL as a prefix• option to let users rate resources• can reuse links from other places in your
Libguides• can be updated with a global search and
exchange from main admin page
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Multimedia Boxes• RSS Feeds• Podcasts• Documents and Files• Delicious tag clouds
Libguides
Multimedia boxes can also be used for:• Embedded Media Widgets– Search boxes– Vendor provided search boxes– Catalogues– Books from the Library– Serial Solutions
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Other types of boxes supported• User input boxes• Radio boxes• Remote script boxes
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Other features include …..
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Mobile friendly…• The system auto-detects mobile devices and
serves the mobile version• You can also buy an add in to use it to create a
mobile library website
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Plenty of statistical material available:• Guides• Links• Produced on a yearly basis
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Can be used for a variety of different types of information guide not just traditional subject guides ….
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Masses of support both from Springshare and from the ‘Springshare Lounge’ community
Lots of guides are available to be reused and shared
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Relatively inexpensive (in my eyes)
•Prices are calculated by FTE
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So has it helped?Yes, not always in the ways you would think– Success with postgrads– Solving problems with FAQs– Giving us greater control of how we present our
resources to our students
However we could use it a lot more than we do – there are always going to be time constraints