Archive | April, 2013

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Managing Resource Lists

By on April 23, 2013 in LibGuides

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resources spread across many different lists, keeping them all up-to-date is difficult – quickly leading to broken and outdated links.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 […]

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Web Have a Subscription!

By on April 23, 2013 in LibGuides

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 […]

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We Have an Address!

By on April 5, 2013 in LibGuides

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. […]

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