lib guides 2012
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LibGuides evaluationTRANSCRIPT
LibGuides in UK H.E. institutions
• Thousands of USA centric examples but no webinars or support geared to UK market or Greenwich time zone
• City University 55 LibGuides• Cambridge, Christ College 5• Anglia Ruskin 0 guides so far• Sussex , Careers• Middlesex University
Conservative use of LibGuides so as not to detract from her sophisticated law web pages
Dull yet well
meaning
Current guide on ASD Web page giving students a better idea of resources arranged alphabetichally with thought rather than randomly listed like the previous example!
Struggle to keep Uni’s
Identity
Good example of LibGuides from Mddx. Uni
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the LoMU template is unwieldy in Its domination of space and use of Purple and curves that undermineAny content design especially ppt. Slides.
Which template?
As predicted..Web tool is grindingly
slow and can’t handle editiing
very well
What a waste of
SPACE
Time consuming ALL’s don’t have luxury of time especially if part-time and pressure of frontline service increases.
Seduced by LISTS of Lists
Comparison of LibGuides to Shado our current Library Services web pages
LIBGuides• Cheap 3K• Independent of ISS support• Control of content • Useful for listing things• Upload multimedia and images if
copyright cleared• Helpful for top web pages as these
are now too complicated for ISS• Every library seems to be using them
– useful as directory but not as vibrant web pages.
• Like most online web tools it is unacceptably slow
Shado Web Pages• No expense already have the
software and trained expertise• Able to delegate content input as
it is regarded as a clerical task• Links to social networks,
multimedia firmly embedded across the web. Tensile strength of www.
• Identity of Library Services web pages firmly established and source of praise from students and peers
Library Services Web Pages
They are robust for searching HORIZONTALLY across servicesVERDICT please keep shado web pages