1. “There’s a guide for that
“There’s a guide for that!” LibGuides at the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network
Alana McDonald
HLA PD Day
July 2016

2. Why LibGuides?
“LibGuides is an easy to use Content Management System used by many thousands of libraries worldwide. Librarians use it to curate knowledge and share information by creating online Guides on any topic, subject, course, on any process, on any thing.”
- Springshare
- Wanted something to provide equal resources across all Network sites
LibGuides allows us to create library guides for all Network staff while also having the flexibility to provide site-specific information when needed
Versatile – can be used for many different purposes
Can be accessed at home (although guides can also be IP or password protected if required)
Fully Bootstrapped and can be heavily customised with CSS, but design and content creation is easy even if you’re not good with those things
Responsive – works on mobile displays
Includes various types of statistics so we know which guides are being utilised
Workaround for IT problems
With two different Intranets, LibGuides gives us one central point for Library information

3. Before…
“out of the box” homepage looks like this.

4. http://schn.libguides.com/ … and now! Homepage
Hover to view updated date
Decided to use left-side nav as this is familiar
Embedded blog as NSW Health is allowing more social media, but twitter/YouTube videos/Facebook etc can be easily embedded as well
Department guides
Need to have a one stop shop for all information
We consulted with departments and now do on an as-requested basis
Demonstrate a guide
Other guide “About” librarians
Library Help
Other features of LibGuides
Blog
Internal guides that are password protected
Create and host forms and surveys and quizzes so everything goes through LibGuides instead of external ie survey monkey

5. Customising LibGuides

6. Questions?
Alana McDonald
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