[LIBRARYDIR] LibGuides for Library Website?

[Guidry, Wade]

The “static page on institutional site, linking to a libguides site” seems to be a pretty standard approach at lots of academic libraries, based on my experience both within the Alliance and now with the CTCs.

I know that Big Bend is another of the CTCs that has gone this direction, with a lot of recent work on their libguides site by Rhonda Kitchens… http://libguides.bigbend.edu/home

In fact, the library link in their campus site menus takes the user straight to the libguides site, with no intervening status page. And the transition is pretty seamless.

The one thing I’ll add, I find it’s a really nice touch when institutions make sure that navigation attempts commonly made to find the library online, like the following, resolve successfully to the library site, regardless of the platform:

http://library.yourinstitution.edu

and:

http://www.yourinstitution.edu/libary

without having to know a more specific URL like:

http://libguides.yourinstitution.edu  or similar.

IT departments are typically happy to set up redirections for those in the campus DNS service, upon request.





Wade Guidry
WACTCLC
Library Consortium Services Manager
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Hi Mindy,

    At my last college, similar to GRC, I had a main page<https://www.bluecc.edu/academics/library> that was through the college but everything you clicked took you into the libguide interface.  It was the easiest way for the library to manage their own content.

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Walla Walla Community College
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Walla Walla, WA 99362
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Hi all,



If any of you are using LibGuides for your library website, would you please send me a private email?  I have seen examples of this and wondered how widespread it is.  Without going into details about our situation, it would be helpful to know or have examples to share.



Thank you,

Mindy



Mindy Coslor, PhD

Director of Library Services

Skagit Valley College

2405 E College Way

Mount Vernon, WA  98273



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