{"id":138,"date":"2013-04-23T14:48:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T14:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/libupdate\/?p=138"},"modified":"2013-04-23T14:48:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T14:48:36","slug":"managing-resource-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/libupdate\/2013\/04\/23\/managing-resource-lists\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing Resource Lists"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Managing resource lists will require a bit of teamwork…<\/p><\/div>\n

All the subject librarians like to give their users lists of the most relevant resources. This is a “good thing<\/strong>“. 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resources spread across many different lists, keeping them all up-to-date is difficult – quickly leading to broken and outdated links.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<\/strong>“.<\/p>\n

I had been working on a system where we could manage our lists of resources centrally for some time – but sorting out the web chat service last summer rather got in the way of completing that project. Luckily, LibGuides makes this idea of centrally managing resources a doddle. All we need to do is to work out the specifics of how we’ll implement the system, and to what extend we’ll centralise the resource link management.<\/p>\n

At the moment our general approach to this kind of thing is reasonably devolved. Whilst we have a central A-Z list of resources, this is entirely separate to the lists included in each subject page. If a link on the central A-Z list is updated, the change is not automatically cascaded to any of the subject lists it features on. I don’t think anyone would be against automating that process.<\/p>\n

The point of debate will revolve around the non-core resources – those that are associated with one or two subjects and which do not feature on the central A-Z list. Do we leave those to the individual subject librarians to manage themselves, or do we centralise everything? And which types of resource should be included, and which should not?<\/p>\n

Personally, I’m in favour of moving towards the centralisation model, with as many resources as possible handled centrally – and then made available for reuse by as many subject guides as possible. Yes, it will mean a little more\u00a0bureaucracy – but I’m working on a couple of tools that should take most of the pain out of that – and I think the benefits of better link management will outweigh the costs of the small amount of extra work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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