Campus Guides

The company that provides our Libguides software is called Springshare. At JCU we recently upgraded our software to the Campus Guides product. For your typical user and editor there is no change in the user experience or skills required to do your usual updating.

Campus Guides does open up a lot of new features to make our guides more customisable and allow more interactive usage, such as designing our own forms and surveys. We will be organising a Webinar by Springhare for people to find out more about Campus Guides. They do offer regular Webinars from their website but they are in the evening in our time zone so we will organise one at a more convenient time. 

In the interim there is plenty of information on their site to introduce the features of Campus Guides. Here are some ideas to get you thinking about possible uses for the forms and surveys feature. Contact a member of the Libguides committee if you would like to put forward your ideas for this feature. 

LibGuides training ppt

I have embedded the LibGuides training ppt into the LibGuides for Authors guide - see LibGuides training.
This was done using Slideshare which is a very easy to use free program (you need to register) for sharing presentations, documents and pdfs. Those of you who are training students may like to try this so that your LibGuide becomes the platform/launchpad for your whole training session and students can easily go back to the LibGuide and the presentation in one place after your class.

Mouseovers

I have created some new instructions for adding mouseover text as a means of providing further information without cluttering up the page with text - see Mouseovers in the Authors guide.

Embedding research skills

I have added a new guide called Embedding research skills to the Information Literacy content box under About the Library. It includes a lot of discipline specific examples of IL skills being embedded into subjects. There are some good ideas in there that you may be able to utilise with your teaching staff. Please send me any additions that you come across.
If you have linked to this box you should see the addition in your own guides.

LibGuides instructions for authors

You can find a LibGuide version of the training documentation at http://libguides.jcu.edu.au/authors
This version will be more current than the paper version so please use this as your reference. Let me now if there is anything you want to know how to do that is not included in this guide.