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 bit of a feel for how everything worked – but it’s never quite the same as using the real thing. And when we started playing for real, it soon became obvious that we’d made a good choice. It’s powerful, but simple to use. It allows easy reuse of content – but also allows you to customise it for your own purposes just as easily.
What next? Well, we have our development group up and running – featuring liaison librarians from across the subject teams and strategy groups. Our first task is to develop the core reusable content – the information on loans, information skills, referencing and journals that pretty much all subject guides will need. For this, we’ve split into pairs to come up with the basic information to get us started.
With that done, we can then start to create our first subject guides. This will allow us to identify and problems or issues we might face, and to see where we need to further develop core, shared information. It may well turn into a bit of an iterative process as well mould the individual subject information and general shared information to fit each other best.
And the better we can sort that out now, the easier it will be to develop the rest of the subject guides once we start rolling out the programme to the rest of the subjects we deal with.
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