Libguides in Academic Libraries
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The document discusses the implementation of LibGuides at St Andrews to enhance student resources through a user-friendly system that supports various content types and integrates statistical tracking. It highlights the features of LibGuides including multimedia support, mobile-friendliness, and collaboration opportunities within the Springshare community. The decision to adopt LibGuides was driven by the need for more interactive and accessible resources for students, particularly postgraduates.
Libguides in Academic Libraries
- 1. Vicki Cormie Senior Academic Liaison Librarian March 2011
- 2. 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
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- 22. Many types of boxes are supported: • Rich text box • Links • Multimedia • User Input Boxes • Miscellaneous Boxes
- 23. 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
- 24. Multimedia Boxes • RSS Feeds • Podcasts • Documents and Files • Delicious tag clouds
- 25. Multimedia boxes can also be used for: • Embedded Media Widgets – Search boxes – Vendor provided search boxes – Catalogues – Books from the Library – Serial Solutions Skip
- 34. Other types of boxes supported • User input boxes • Radio boxes • Remote script boxes
- 35. Other features include …..
- 36. 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
- 38. Plenty of statistical material available: • Guides • Links • Produced on a yearly basis
- 42. Can be used for a variety of different types of information guide not just traditional subject guides ….
- 43. Masses of support both from Springshare and from the ‘Springshare Lounge’ community Lots of guides are available to be reused and shared
- 48. Relatively inexpensive (in my eyes) •Prices are calculated by FTE
- 49. 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
- 50. Any questions? vhc1@st-andrews.ac.uk @viche on Twitter http://libguides.st-andrews.ac.uk