FASET Library Collections Faculty PagePam Bolan

Purpose of the Page

•will be emailed to faculty members within FASET (part of faculty liaison)• provides information about new resources

acquired by the library• encourages faculty to recommend relevant

resources for the collection (and explains why these recommendations are so valuable)• is school-specific

About the Page

• created using LibGuides software • software is already familiar to some staff, so

it will not be too challenging if other collections staff want to create similar pages• library subscribes to software• new resources listed on the page will be

updated twice per year • faculty will be encouraged to add a shortcut

to the page on their desktops

one tab for each school

Each tab has it’s own look and highlights resources specific to that school

Elements of Each Tab

Element #1:Why We Need Faculty Feedback

Element #2:How to Recommend a Resource

Element #3:Survey Form

All responses are immediately

emailed to me

This field is required, so that I can contact the

faculty member

Element #4:Q & A Links

Links to the video that Jennifer Peters showed us

Element #5:Links to New Books and E-Books

Book cover photograph

relates to specific school

Click here to open …

Page is periodically updated by the library’s digital services team

Element #6:List of New AV Resources

DVD cover photograph

relates to specific school

The library does not produce (and update) lists of AV resources, so I will

update this list manually

Element #7:Note re. Streamed Videos

Highlights that the physical AV

resources are just the ‘tip of the

iceberg’

Both the blue words and the image are

links to the library’s streamed video

site …

Element #8:SFX Search for Relevant Serials

Click on a subject category to

open …

Categories and photo of journal

cover are school-specific

295 journals within this subject category (print &

electronic)

Usability / Accessibility

All images include image descriptions

The page is searchable

There is a lot of white space

Also …

• there are no links to PDFs• the text is broken up with several pictures

(not a wall of text)• presents all text in a sans-serif font• does not (I hope) use much library jargon• opens links within the same window so that

users can navigate back using the back button• allows for size adjustments using Ctrl+

How the Technology Helps Me to Liaise with Faculty …

• faculty can keep shortcut to page on desktop• resources information can be frequently

updated• interactive survey encourages

recommendations and provides me with immediate feedback • links provide instant access to resources as

well as answers to frequently asked questions

My Journey• time-consuming to make each tab school-specific

but worth it to ensure relevancy• page is currently ‘unpublished’• will present the idea of the page at an upcoming

collections committee meeting, and then publish it and send it out once I have approval• will continue to think about ways to use new

technologies in my collection work (e.g., maybe imbed a recommendations survey within the FASET-related subject guides to get student feedback)

Unpublished Page Available at:

http://seneca.libguides.com/content.php?pid=404375