Showing posts with label libguides. Show all posts
Showing posts with label libguides. Show all posts

Thursday, 29 October 2009

Opinion survey - New name for Template guide

The development of new libguides is now a daily reality. It's facilitated by
Katrina's Template Guide page where we could link a myriad of boxes from this page.
As you will see when you want to create a new box by linking it from this Guide, you just have to scroll down the menu and select "Template Guide by Katrina Keith". You will soon realise that you need to link a lot of boxes from this guide to yours, and you have to scroll down a lot of Libguides created by JCU Librarians to reach it.

After discussing with the creator/owner of this Guide, Katrina, about the fact that this page is too far below in the scroll-down menu, I suggested to change its name that will bring it the first one on the list. You'll find below suggestions (sorted alphabetically) for a new name for this useful and resourceful Guide. The eventual new name will just be apply to the Template Guide, not to all the libguides;-) Please vote for your prefered one (or suggest a new one):

1 and the only 1 Template guide
1001 boxes Template guide
A to Z Template guide
AAA-Template
ABC Template guide
Abracadabra Template guide
Absolutely amazing, marvellous and fantastic Template guide
Ali Baba Template cave

Poll will close on the 3rd of November, 2009 (as soon as the Melbourne Cup is over!!).

Charles

Tuesday, 8 September 2009

Alert services explain to users

Just sneaking on other libguides, and I found that adding a box (or tab) on Alert Services could be very useful and relevant for most of our libguides (well, not really for the libguides but for the users of those libguides). Three different alert services could be explain: Table of contents (eTOC), databases search and citation alerts. How about creating a generic one, and after that, we could adapt it to our respective subjects? The big question.... where users will find it? Under How to..., under Research, or Journal articles? My preference will be under Research, and as a tab. But this is just my opinion.

Some good examples:

http://guides.lib.msu.edu/page.phtml?page_id=669

http://libguides.usu.edu/content.php?pid=1590

Regards