LibGuides Reflections and Best Practices: Sheri

Here's a link to Sheri's Profile and list of Guides:

http://libguides.butler.edu/profile.php?uid=758

LibGuides is a Godsend for the HTML-challenged!

• Continuing Education issues
• Learning HTML
• Better than personal web pages
• Perfect for “pathfinders” or “Subject Resource Guides”

LibGuides is GREEN Technology

• No more handouts!
• Reduces duplication of information
• Can’t throw online resources in the garbage

LibGuides are INTUITIVE!

• Does not take long to learn
• May be assigned to students who:
  • Can find many things online
  • Can be creative
  • Can think like other students
  • Can design pages that young people find appealing

LibGuides is a dynamic system!

• Allows great creative license
• Easy to include pictures, jokes, quotes, YouTube videos, etc.
• Hot-links to databases and specific websites are quick and easy

Dance LibGuide (Ballerina & Professor)

Art History & Visual Culture LibGuide (Mona Lisa)

Singer's Bible (Singing in the Rain & Beethoven's 9th)

LibGuides is Flexible

• Quickly & simply add content, web links, pictures, videos, etc.
• Information Literacy info now on LibGuides instead of taking up space in handouts
• Easier to collaborate with professors (ex: Music Theory I class)
• Lists of library holdings (ex: Singer’s Bible)

LibGuides is Accessible

• Reach constituencies both on and off campus
• Provide specialized information at any of time of day, even when the Music Librarian is not present
• LibGuides can’t get “lost” like paper handouts