LibGuides Best Practices Panel Kirstin Dougan, Rebecca Littman, Scott Pfitzinger, Sheri Stormes MWMLA Annual Meeting October 9, 2009 University of Notre Dame
General Overview LibGuides by Springshare (http://www.springshare.com/libguides/index.html) Customizable Copy-able Modular Various types of content boxes Sharable Internally and externally Measurable Statistics available for each guide and each section of a guide
My LibGuides Access to guides Class guide vs subject guide Undergraduate vs graduate level Dividing content effectively Using screen shots
Access to LibGuides at University of Illinois All guides are available from http://uiuc.libguides.com/index.php From a link here http://www.library.illinois.edu/ From each subject library’s/area’s page as they see fit http://www.library.illinois.edu/mux/ Everyone uses a variation of the same basic look/feel template
From Library Gateway
LibGuide page
LibGuide page continued
Music Guides
On the MPAL website
MPAL’s guides
Welcome to MPAL Guide
Undergraduate Class Guide
Graduate Class guide
Subject guide
Subject and class
Using screen shots