Event: Metadata and Web 2.0 seminar Organised by: Cataloguing & Indexing Group in Scotland Held on Friday 2nd March at the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh Presented by: Vicki Cormie

1. Vicki Cormie
Senior Academic Liaison Librarian
March 2011

2. Why we decided to use Libguides
• New Academic Liaison unit at St Andrews
• ‘Chalk and talk’ classes
• Lack of hands on opportunities for students
• Needed to provide resources for students
• Solution had to be fast to create

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22. Many types of boxes are supported:
• Rich text box
• Links
• Multimedia
• User Input Boxes
• Miscellaneous Boxes

23. Links
• will record outgoing stats on clicks
• you can add in a proxy URL as a prefix
• option to let users rate resources
• can reuse links from other places in your
Libguides
• can be updated with a global search and
exchange from main admin page

24. Multimedia Boxes
• RSS Feeds
• Podcasts
• Documents and Files
• Delicious tag clouds

25. Multimedia boxes can also be used for:
• Embedded Media Widgets
– Search boxes
– Vendor provided search boxes
– Catalogues
– Books from the Library
– Serial Solutions
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34. Other types of boxes supported
• User input boxes
• Radio boxes
• Remote script boxes

35. Other features include …..

36. Mobile friendly…
• The system auto-detects mobile devices and
serves the mobile version
• You can also buy an add in to use it to create a
mobile library website

38. Plenty of statistical material available:
• Guides
• Links
• Produced on a yearly basis

42. Can be used for a variety of different types of
information guide not just traditional subject
guides ….

43. Masses of support both from Springshare and
from the ‘Springshare Lounge’ community
Lots of guides are available to be reused and
shared

48. Relatively inexpensive (in my eyes)
•Prices are calculated by FTE

49. So has it helped?
Yes, not always in the ways you would think
– Success with postgrads
– Solving problems with FAQs
– Giving us greater control of how we present our
resources to our students
However we could use it a lot more than we do
– there are always going to be time constraints

50. Any questions?
vhc1@st-andrews.ac.uk
@viche on Twitter
http://libguides.st-andrews.ac.uk