LibGuides is an extremely powerful tool, and there’s lots that we can do to make our guides interesting, engaging and dynamic… but the temptation is to just replicate the same rather bland information that we have on our website. To help us avoid this road to dullness, we are going to try and collate ideas […]
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The Official SpringShare "Create a New Guide" Guide
Here’s SpringShare’s very own page that introduces you to creating your first LibGuide… http://help.springshare.com/content.php?pid=34814&sid=256703 (Sorry, ...
Using Template Pages to Build a Guide (dev phase)
As LibGuides is built on the concept of reusing information, one of the first steps we’ve taken is to design some basic templates for the core content that most people will want on their subject guides. It’s difficult to see exactly how all of this will work out – so I’ve used the first drafts […]
Resource Lists: We Need Your Help!
So you know what our proposals are for managing resources in LibGuides – here’s the bit where we come to you to ask for help! We need to get descriptions written for all resources on the A-Z list, and the basic details (on and off-campus links, any password information, etc.) checked. We also need to […]
Managing Resource Links on LibGuides
As I mentioned in my last post, we need to change the way that we manage our lists of resources on LibGuides – and having spent some time thinking about this, I’m ready to share our four key proposals with everyone: 1. All Resources Will Be Managed Centrally Periodicals will maintain a central list of […]
Managing Resource Lists
All the subject librarians like to give their users lists of the most relevant resources. This is a “good thing“. But with huge numbers of resources spread across many different lists, keeping them all up-to-date is difficult – quickly leading to broken and outdated links. This is a “bad thing“. I had been working on […]
Web Have a Subscription!
Sometimes getting subscriptions sorted out takes ages – thankfully, this wasn’t one of those times. After taking the final decision to go ahead and get LibGuides, it was just a few days before we got our hands on the system – and we weren’t disappointed. We’d already used the trial LibGuides website to get a […]
We Have an Address!
Sometimes small things can be important – and that’s rarely truer than when you’re talking about web addresses. LibGuides allows us to use our own web address – but, just like if you buy a web address for your own website, it’s up to us to sort out obtaining that address and the DNS redirects. […]
My First LibGuide
I’ve finally managed to find a few minutes to play with the LibGuides demo… and, like any service, it’s a bit scary when you don’t know what you’re doing! (I don’t know if that’s reassuring or not, if you discover that even a geek like me gets a bit worried when confronted by a new […]
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Idea Archive
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Introduction to LibGuides
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The Website Conundrum
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A Quick Introduction to LibGuides
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University of Alberta Libraries: Introduction to LibGuides
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Idea Archive
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Using Template Pages to Build a Guide (dev phase)
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Resource Lists: We Need Your Help!
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Managing Resource Links on LibGuides
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Managing Resource Lists
