lib guides 2012

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