Make the Connection with LibGuides!

Upstate New York Science Librarians MeetingLinda Galloway

October 26, 2009

LibGuides Benefits

• Allows librarians to repackage information and tailor it to their constituents.

• Adds value to information by making it more useful and easier to interpret.

• Allows collaboration within the library and with other departments in your institution.

• Emphasizes the connection between the library and other essential campus functions.

LibGuides Benefits

• Allows librarians to repackage information and tailor it to their constituents.

• Adds value to information by making it more useful and easier to interpret.

Added value to information – institutionally

authored papers in a RSS feed

Guide to library resources and services

LibGuides Benefits

• Allows librarians to repackage information and tailor it to their constituents.

• Adds value to information by making it more useful and easier to interpret.

• Allows collaboration within the library and with other departments in your institution.

Specialized guide for research faculty *semi-formalized*

partnership between the library and the

Office of Research Programs

The Provost read my guide! Hence, the ESF logo appears…

Add value to pages – create interest in

your guide

Combined RSS Feed from Scopus and Web of Science

– used Yahoo Pipes and Feedburner to set up feeds

Good place to save documents for easy accessibility

LibGuides Benefits

• Allows librarians to repackage information and tailor it to their constituents.

• Adds value to information by making it more useful and easier to interpret.

• Allows collaboration within the library and with other departments in your institution.

• Emphasizes the connection between the library and other essential campus functions.

This guide born from a request to present to a

graduate group about new Dissertation/Thesis

Guidelines

Collaboration between Office of Instruction and Graduate Studies

and Library Staff

Found elements for this guide by searching SpringShare site.

Possible Pitfalls

• Must approach some offices/individuals with tact – don’t want to alienate stakeholders

• What makes YOU the expert?

• Can spend a lot of time making guides!

Value outweighs “cost”

• Fantastic ROI – as more faculty see guides, asked to create more guides

• Asked to present more frequently to classes/groups

• Good for students – guides are highly used and valued

• Good for faculty – great way to present/disseminate information

Woo Hoo -We’re

Number Nine!!

~Thank You~

Questions?

Linda GallowaySUNY-ESF