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Library Guides:
Kim Vassiliadis, Head, User ExperienceUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Content Creation to Content Management
A Little History • Late 1990s:
o begin creating guides
• Early 2000s: o Database to track and make the guides more findable.
• Mid-2000s: o Coursepages pulled into Blackboard (now Sakai)o Subject guides were everywhere
By 2011...
350 subject guides
UNC planned to move to LibGuides
Libguides
LibGuides are "Easy"
• Technical knowledge isn't necessary
• Create and update pages quickly via a browser
• Hosted externally
• Easily sharable content
• Responsive tech support
Herding our CatsHow do we sustain them?Are they being used?
Guides are like Kittens
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Management is Hard
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Consider the guide lifecycle
Infancy
Middle Age
Old Age
Undead
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Why this is bad
• Website goal: Users view the Libraries as reliable
• It's easy to just ignore out-of-date content.
• If our content is wrong or inaccurate, our users lose faith.
Didn't want to move our old guides to a new CMS
Move to LibGuides
What did we do?
• Defined purpose
• Consistent style (look and feel)
• Planned life cycle
• Long term commitment
Management Plan
• Make a commitment
• Weigh their time commitment against the use of the guide
• Use consistent content and style
Subject Librarian Goals
• Defined a subject guide
• Identified all the subject guides in our system
• Deleted inactive and outdated guides
Phase One: Zombie Guides
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Phase Two: Care and Feeding
• Created usage reports for active guides
• Created a policy for updating active guides
• Created a workflow for deleting guides
• 20 minutes to review each page in the guide
• 3 minutes to look at each individual resource
• 7 minutes to add a new resource
• 15 minutes to update a broken link
Analyzing a Guide
Usage Report
Analyzing a Guide
Analyzing a Guide
Phase Three: Now and the Future
• Completed migration to Libguides
• Yearly Usage Report
• Tighter controls over what it means to be "up-to-date"
There are now 89 Subject Guides
Current Status
We don't want all these guides
Going Forward
We want guides that our staff feel good about and our patrons can love.Questions?
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