From Pathfinders to Subject Guides: One Library's Experience with LibGuides

Glassman, Nancy; Sorensen, Karen

doi:10.1080/15424065.2010.529767

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“…With nearly 4800 libraries in 78 countries utilizing LibGuides, there is a strong user base and an engaged community of librarians answering one another's questions, sharing code, design tips, and even encouraging the reuse or adaptations of content from one another's LibGuides (5,6). Additionally, Springshare is known for great customer support (7).…”

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CampusGuides: A Solution for the Hospital Library

Woody

2015

Journal of Hospital Librarianship

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Our large nonprofit health system consists of one main campus and several regional hospitals, each with varying degrees of library services, access, and staffing. When our free wiki-based Web site platform went down unexpectedly, we needed a quick solution for our library Web pages. This article details our transition to LibGuides content management system (CMS; formerly called CampusGuides). Library Web sites across the hospital system now have a much more consistent "look & feel," are easier to update, and resource use can be tracked in new ways. Popular among academic libraries, we show that CampusGuides can be a valuable tool for hospital library systems.

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Section: Libguidesmentioning

confidence: 99%

CampusGuides: A Solution for the Hospital Library

Woody

2015

Journal of Hospital Librarianship

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“…Pada perkembangannya subject guide berbasis kertas pada awalnya yang menjadi handout yang pernah popular ditahun 1970, dan saat ini telah berevolusi menjadi subjek media yang kaya dengan panduan dengan berbagai fitur kemudahan bagi pemustaka melalui situs web perpustakaan (Glassman & Sorensen, 2010). Keduanya baik yang berbentuk cetak maupun elektronik merupakan fasilitas untuk memudahkan pengguna.…”

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Library Pathfinder: Kemas Ulang Informasi Dalam Memudahkan Temu Kembali Bagi Pemustaka

Wulansari¹

2017

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Abstrak. Temu kembali informasi saat ini menjadi trend bagi pemustaka salah satunya terkait dengan keberaksaraan informasi masyarakat terhadap pemenuhan informasinya. Melakukan kemas ulang informasi merupakan upaya untuk menarik untuk pengguna dalam menemukan dan menggunakan informasi, dan layanan ini dirancang untuk memenuhi kebutuhan pengguna secara spesifik. Jenis kemas ulang infomasi sangat beragam salah satunya dengan pathfinder. Library Pathfinder dirancang sebagai panduan untuk mengumpulkan informasi dan mencakup langkah-langkah penelitian yang spesifik atau pencarian subyek. Pathfinder merupakan panduan awal, atau sebagai alat bantu yang memungkinkan pemustaka (users) melakukan penelusuran secara mandiri, memberikan informasi bagaimana menelusur mengenai sebuah subjek di sebuah perpustakaan. Artikel ini membahas library pathfinder online sebagai salah satu solusi dalam temu kembali melalui kemas ulang informasi yang mudah dalam penelusurannya diharapkan penyedia informasi seperti pustakawan serta pemustaka mengerti cara penelusurannya sehingga dapat memenuhi akan informasi.Keyword: Pathfinder, Libguide, kemas ulang, informasi, temu kembali Abstract. Retrieval of information is now a trend for pemustaka one of them related to public information literacy on the fulfillment of information. Retyping information is an attempt to appeal to users in finding and using information, and the service is designed to meet the specific needs of users. Types of re-packing information is very diverse one of them with pathfinder. Library Pathfinder is designed as a guide for collecting information and includes specific research steps or subject search. Pathfinders are an early guide, or as a tool that enables users to search independently, providing information on how to track a subject in a library. This article discusses online pathfinder libraries as one of the solutions in retrieval through easy information retrieval in its search is expected to provide information providers such as librarians as well as users to understand how they are tracked so as to comply with information.

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“…Whether in the form of paper handouts or web-based resources, libraries have long provided their users with guides for discovering information and content (Glassman & Sorensen, 2010). Springshare's LibGuides platform has come to dominate the webbased guide environment, especially within the academic library context (Vaska & Vaska, 2017).…”

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Weeding the Web

Chee

2020

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Content available on LibGuides in the academic library context would benefit from being viewed and curated/edited as individual and distinct collections. Viewing LibGuides through this lens provides academic libraries with a new perspective for resolving the well-documented user experience issues that afflict this mode of information delivery. Novel considerations that emerge from this approach include: a) the value of formalizing a collection acquisition policy for individual LibGuides; b) the importance of creating content responsive to emerging research directions; and c) an emphasis on the need for weeding and deselection processes. Although the author anticipates especial resistance to the idea that content on LibGuides would benefit from regular weeding, from the stance that virtual content takes up minimal space, this paper argues that the prioritization of high-quality, curated content in the era of the attention economy is a practice of prime importance.

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From Pathfinders to Subject Guides: One Library's Experience with LibGuides

Cited by 14 publications

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CampusGuides: A Solution for the Hospital Library

CampusGuides: A Solution for the Hospital Library

Library Pathfinder: Kemas Ulang Informasi Dalam Memudahkan Temu Kembali Bagi Pemustaka

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