Tuesday, 14 September 2010

Updated features and new code

From the Springshare support blog:
  • Resource Icons – This new functionality integrates custom icons alongside your database/resource links (without having to hack your links with img tags). You can create a standard set of “meaningful” icons and easily deploy them across your resources. Create icons to represent trial databases, offsite/home-accessible resources, recommended resources, or any other info you want to convey to your users, and integrate them with your database links through a simple check-box! Example can be found here on the yet to be published politics guide. The creation of the feature is an administrator role. Possibly better suited for icons such as "new", or "map of Australia" to designate an Australian resource rather than the database icon in the example. Icons will display 16px x 16px only.
  • Librarian Profiles have seen a number of upgrades, including an improved layout to the profile page, a new “LinkedIn” field, and better CSS customization options
  • The API now offers more layout control on subject links, and options to return guides sorted by popularity or publication date
  • We’ve updated the Rich Text Editor to a more recent version of TinyMCE, which should fix the issue of stripped FORM tags when using IE

Friday, 3 September 2010

Libguide home page subject list

After discussions with Bronwyn, I have added a subject heading, Business to the Browse by subject box on the home page and linked all the business related subjects guides to this heading. It works for this cluster of subjects and it means the list can be shorter. How do you think it will work for other subject clusters?

You quote it, you note it.

This is an interesting example on why we should reference found by Katrina. Click on the graphic box to see the full programme. What do you think?

Excellent guide example

This is a great guide for displaying how to borrow, renew, and request inter library loans.