Presentation for ASLA 2011 Sydney October, 4th

1. LibGuides & Facebook
Creating a 24/7 Library

2. Existing site

3. Library as lighthouse

4. Considerations

5. What structures are in place for
sharing information in your
school?
Who manages, contributes to
the distribution of information?
How much input do you have?
What are the limitations and
benefits of current structures?

6. Carefully nurtured or growing wild

7. More
than
one
way

8. Aiming for excellence

9. http://www.facebook.com/TGSLibrary

10. Infographics

11. Start
Need 25
people
to “Like”
a page to
claim URL

12. Share

13. Link

14. Challenge

15. “Like”
Advise

16. Do your current digital services
adequately serve the best interests of
your students?
What would your ideal digital library
encompass?
How might you reach this situation?
What can you give up doing?
Who in your school community could
help you?
Who in your PLN could help?

17. What is LibGuides?
• Template driven CMS for libraries
• Web enabled (2)
• Resides on Springshare’s server
• Can be custom mapped to own domain
• Own policies and administration

18. Why LibGuides?
• Pathfinders, Subject guides
• Quick and easy personalisation
• Professional appearance
• No HTML skills needed
• Interactivity
• Support
• Statistics available

19. Community
http://libguides.com/community.php?m=g
Newest 100 guides

20. Guide
Page
Box
Content item

21. Everything on this page makes up a Guide
Pages - tabs
subPages under tabs
Inbuilt search
Content
Boxes

22. Guide
Multiple access points

23. Browse

24. Browse

25. Subject, course, topic, content specific
Page

26. Boxes

27. More box types
Tag clouds

28. K-12 Community
Local lighthouses
http://libguides.brisbanegrammar.com/libraryhome
http://libguides.tigs.nsw.edu.au/library
http://monte.libguides.com/libraryhome
http://libguides.mhs.vic.edu.au/
International lighthouses
http://theunquietlibrary.libguides.com/
http://sdst.libguides.com/index.php

29. Carmel Galvin
tw: @crgalvin
http://librarycurrants.blogspot.com
Trinity Grammar School
http://trinity.nsw.edu.au
The Arthur Holt Library
http://trinity.nsw.libguides.com/libraryhome
http://www.facebook.com/TGSLibrary