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Decentralizing Your Website
LibGuides as a Web Development Tool
Steve Bahnaman - NC Weslyan CollegeSteve Osler - Central Piedmont CC
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The Problem: A Disconnect
IT Departments and Libraries have different priorities when it comes to maintaining and updating a website.
Libraries• Maximum access
• Dynamic, lively, and inviting• Usable
• Works on and off campus
Practically, this leads to sites with proxies, widgets, news feeds, and lots of articulation with various online resources.
IT Departments• Secure• Stable
• Low-maintenance• More technical design
Because IT deals with problems when they occur, they are more likely to design to avoid problems.
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The Problem: Continued
Because they are susceptible to the same stereotypes as other people are, your IT department may assume that the #1 priority of the library is stability and security as well.
Unless your library has its own IT department, campus IT lacks a vested interest in a dynamic library web presence. They will also never see your library site as critical to their mission.
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Goals
• Allow librarians to create web content quickly, with professional looking, consistent results.
• Increase outreach to college departments by offering them individualized web pages.
• Create a dynamic web presence that doesn’t require so much detailed updating every time something changes.
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Websites
• CPCC: Content Management System (Plone)o Updating content is cumbersomeo Limited to standard HTMLo Giving librarians rights to create new pages is
problematic
• NCWC: Drupal-based CMS with homemade editor
• Updating content is WYSIWYG but tricky and quirky• Many rules are set by IT and marketers• Librarians cannot edit the widget-and-box-heavy
homepage, only the sub-pages
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Enter LibGuides
• A content-management service designed to allow libraries to make subject- and course-specific guides easily and quickly.
• A sharing platform designed to become more and more streamlined as it grows.
• An easy way to incorporate the array of 2.0 tools.
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Working Smarter, Not Harder
• LibGuides consists of different types of content. o Pageso Boxeso Links
• Any of these can be reused over and over again across the system.
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Types of Content
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Types of Content
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Types of Content
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Working Smarter, Not Harder!
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Facilitate SpeedBrowser Plugin
Link Checker
Database Import Tool
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Facilitate Sharing
• CPCC has a few guides that exist only to house shared content.o Database Linkso Database and Catalog Search Boxeso Libraryh3lp Chat Widgeto Video Tutorials
• These can be used the way that many libraries use a shared drive or an intranet…except they can be reused even more easily!
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Facilitate Sharing
• Widgets showing new guides
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Our Reusable Content
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Our Reusable Content
Database List and Subjects
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Our Reusable Content
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Cross-Sharing
• LibGuides enables users to choose other libraries’ guides as a template for starting their own.
• This is voluntary, but is seen as central to the idea of LibGuides as a sharing tool.
• You were probably doing this anyway.
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A 2.0 Toolbox
• Most of the things libraries want to do with Web 2.0 are pretty simple in principle:– Share more in places where patrons already are
– Make design more dynamic at point of need
• LibGuides facilitates this too, largely through the use of widgets.
• LibGuides also has great stats-tracking.
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Uses So Far
• Traditional Research Guides• Class guides for in-person and online only
classes• Basic Skills Guide (For GED Students)
o Links to Kahn Academy Exercises
• Databases interface• Faculty Workshops and possibly some
institutional digital repository functions• Any time we find the need to make a site more
dynamic, or where the links change frequently
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Potential Drawbacks
• NCWC has a heavily “split site” now; search boxes etc. don’t always share content.
• A bit “uglier” than some web developers might like.
• Difficult to ensure uniformity since so many people create pages.
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This was not a LibGuides Commercial
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Questions and Comments
• What have your web/LibGuides experiences taught you?
• What questions do you have for us?