Accounting and Finance

The Accounting and finance Libguide has now been published. A redirect has been activated from the Library resources page and it is now linked to the list on the Libguides home page.

Creating an annotated bibliography

Creating an annotated bibliography has been published and a link has been added to Other Guides on the LibGuides Home page. It's a great resource if you have any students struggling with an annotated bibliography at the InfoHelp desk.

Embedding research skills

I think you are all aware that there is a LibGuide called Embedding Research Skills where I have outlined why IL should be embedded into courses and how the Library can help achieve this goal.

This guide also includes many examples from different disciplines and I think this is really important because every discipline requires students to learn different sets of skills. I have given all librarians editing access to this guide so please add new examples as you come across them. It would be even better if you could add examples from our own institution.

The guide is directed primarily at academics, but the discipline-specific examples will also give you ideas for new ways of getting the skills embedded into the JCU subjects.

Creating a photo collage

Instructions for creating a photo collage using Adobe Fireworks CS4 have added to the Managing your images page of the LibGuides for Authors research guide - see Creating a collage.

Adobe Fireworks CS4 is part of the Adobe Design Premium Creative Suite (get the whole suite, not just Fireworks) – see Adobe Site License Agreement for details about the JCU licence for this product. If you don’t already have it you should submit a request via the IT Helpdesk

Springshare code updates

Springshare have just announced a number of code updates that some of you may have noticed already. Here is the list as reported in the Springshare blog. If you have questions about any of them please discuss via this blog.

"These updates represent several months of work from our talented tech team, along with dozens of suggestions from our LG / LA / CG user communities! As you will see, there is a lot to review, so lets get started!

LibGuides

* The LibGuides text editor now allows you to toggle between rich and plain text modes without first needing to save you work. We also added a “Save Changes” button so you can save your text without closing the editor, as well as a status area that lets you know when you have pending changes that need to be saved.
* You can now change the order of sub-pages manually, so there is no longer a need to add numeric prefixes to the sub-page names in order to control the page order. When reusing a page, you can also choose to make it a top-level page or a sub-page right from the Reuse Page screen.
* When creating a new link, book, or event you can now decide if that item will open in a new window or the same window on an item-by-item basis. Any item that does not have its own custom “target” will use the default specified on the System Settings page.
* We have added a new “User Profile” content box type that will allow you to embed a LibGuides user profile box in any column, at any position, within your guide.
* Enhanced User Profile pages give you the ability to add your office hours, as well as additional custom content by creating one rich text box and one links box. You may also disable your LibGuides profile page if you would prefer to not have it be visible to the public.
* We have also added a dedicated Facebook URL field to the profiles, so that you can easily link to your Facebook profile or library’s page within your profile.
* The new Collaborator feature allows you to co-create a guide with a person who does not have their own LibGuides account. A guide Collaborator has rights to create and edit content on just a single guide in the system, allowing them to assist you with the content creation without having access to other guides or the admin areas of the system.
* When reusing links, you are now able to customize the “description” and “more information” fields, so you can tailor the link information to each specific guide.
* With the new “Links to Guides” content box type you can create a box that allows you to browse by subject/librarian, view all published guides in the system, browse by most popular guides, most recent guides, etc.
* LibGuides pages now have a visibility setting, allowing you to remove entire pages from the public view with a single click.
* All cover art from Syndetics is now retrieved at the highest possible resolution, and scaled down accordingly, to ensure the highest quality for all cover art images.
* We updated our code so that Google Analytics will pick up link hits in Links & Lists and Simple Web Links boxes! All you need to do is add the Google Analytics tracking code in the Custom < HEAD > Code box on the System-wide Settings page. Your link hits will then show up in the “Content” report in the GA console.
* You can now search for content within a Private Guide, assuming you are already on that guide and use the “This Guide” option in the search drop-down menu. We also added a “view homepage” link to each of the results on the search results screen, so you can easily jump to any guide homepage right from the search results."

Translate this page

I have added a new content box to the Template to Translate this page - you can add it wherever you think it might be useful in your guides. Another wonderful Google service!