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Using LibGuides for Instruction & Research
AssistanceEBSS Virtual Discussion, December 8, 2010
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Your Facilitators for today…Jenny Innes, Education Librarian Haas Library, Western Connecticut State
University, Danbury, CT
Cheryl Goldenstein, Education LibrarianUniversity of Wyoming, Laramie
Dana Peterman, Research Librarian for Education,
Psychology & Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine
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What is all the fuss about?
LibGuides is an easy-to-use, Web 2.0 info management and Web publishing system
Priced affordably Easy to create and share web content Authorship of content can be distributed Built in social networking and info
sharing tools to enhance our services.
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Some numbers from Springshare…
Librarian Accounts: 25,521 Total Guides: 122,421 Total Pages: 790,532 Unique Visitors: 2.10 million Page Views: 57 million Countries: 25
Source: http://support.springshare.com/2010/11/01/monthly-libguides-stats-october-2010/
Academic Libraries: 1,423 (out of 3,827 total in US)
Source: http://libguides.com/community.php?m=i&ref=www.libguides.com
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How many in education and other behavioral sciences?These approximate numbers reflect # of guides with keyword in
title (source: e-mail from Springshare’s Laura Harris, 11/23/10):
Education: 3015 (incl. higher education) Teacher Education: 38 Curriculum Materials: 30 Childrens/YA Literature 250 (incl. school/public libraries) Psychology: 1604 Counseling 238 School Counseling 11 Mental health 122 Social work 579 Communications 379
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Some objectives for today’s discussion:
1. Learn how many of us are using LibGuides
2. Explore benefits of using LibGuides for our
work
3. Address possible drawbacks/obstacles
4. Share cool features and innovative uses
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We might ponder bigger questions…
Can LibGuides enhance learning and teaching?
Can use promote engagement and/or interactivity?
Do course-focused LibGuides deliver the personalized
service students and faculty want?
Do they encourage more collaboration between
librarians and teaching faculty?
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How Academic Libraries Use LibGuides
General subject guides Course guides to support library
instruction FAQ’s and self-help guides Information literacy tutorials Collaboration with faculty on research and
teaching Library Website (partnership w/Serials Solutions)
Staff collaboration/communication/governance
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Great tools for the traditionalist…
Easy to create subject/topic-based lists of library holdings
Easy to link to existing library guides Can create lists of articles/resources Can point to existing tools/online collections Easy to categorize, organize, index content Easy to print out guides or portions of guides
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Plus good stuff for those who work and live online & are “early adopters”…
Integration with Twitter; app. for Facebook
Can embed Live chat/Meebo boxes Can create tag clouds Shared authorship tools facilitate
collaborative work online Can embed demos, polls or other objects Customizable for mobile access
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Out of the Box Formatting…
So we can get our work done faster! No more wrestling with HTML or other
coding (unless you really want to) In most libraries systems librarian will set up
and configure LibGuides, with unique look & feel for your library.
Subject librarians can personalize their pages (add profile picture, etc.)
More time for addressing information needs of students and faculty & marketing what we do.
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We want to hear from you!
Question:
How many of you are now utilizing the LibGuides
platform for your own content?
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Which LibGuides features/tools/utilities do you like best or use the most?
Some examples:
Facebook and Twitter integration/feeds Copy another box Shared authorship of guides Book cover upload Upload/embed video or audio files Incorporating tutorial content Html editor
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What kinds of boxes do you find most useful, and why?
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What tools/features would you like to see added to the LibGuides system?
For example:
One step uploading of bibliographic data from your online catalog
Tool to facilitate uploading of content from Word documents.
Other?
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Have you seen your interactions with students and faculty increase with LibGuides?
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Libguides & “crowdsourced” librarianship
All librarians responsible for their own content & quality control
More responsiveness (no bottlenecks!) Situating librarians where students and
faculty are “Wisdom of the Crowd”—librarians can learn
from each other and those we serve Utility measured through usage stats &
comments Share your thoughts!
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Thanks for joining us!