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These 15-min guest presentations by Springshare users will get you thinking about all the new and interesting ways you can use your Springshare tools.
Perhaps you’ll want to setup LibCal Spaces for reserving Bloomberg Terminals like CUNY – Lehman College or use LibWizard Tutorials for Training Student Workers like the University of Guelph-Humber Library. Or if you’re looking for LibGuides usability practices then take a page from James Madison University’s Usability Study or Kennesaw State University Library’s Student-Centered LibGuides Design.
So take a minute (or two or three) and learn from your fellow colleagues on the endless possibilities of Springy tools.
With 13 presentations – it’s time to get #springyinspired!
Guest Presentations
(times vary between 17min – 12min in length)
Baylor University Library: Assessing Research Consultations – Survey a ‘Captive’ Audience
Baylor Librarians ramped up their research consultation program, using LibCal’s appointment scheduler as a convenient way for students to book appointments with the librarians. In 2017, they realized that we had an untapped opportunity for assessing the program, through LibCal’s automatic email system. They inserted a link to a LibWizard survey in that follow-up email with questions about the research consultation. This process was a very easy and low-maintenance way to perform assessment with what is virtually a captive audience.
CUNY – Lehman: Bloomberg & LibCal – A Match Made in Collaboration Heaven
Learn how LibCal was used to implement booking the newly installed Bloomberg Terminal in the Leonard Lief Library at Lehman College. Particulars include collaborating with business faculty to understand departmental needs, working with multiple departments to set up protocol, how the setup influences the student as user, harvesting relevant statistics, and future implications for implementation.
Univ. Nebraska, Omaha: Women in STEM in Higher Education – An ALA Carnegie-Whitney Grant Project
Imagine patrons trying to find sources on STEM-related topics such as biases women face, classroom experiences, learning communities, mentoring or work-life balance for assessment, best practices, or accreditation purposes. This information was not readily available in one location for easy access. With the help of a student research assistant, they created a LibGuide documenting and organizing over 1,100 citations regarding the status of women in STEM in higher education.
The Corning Museum of Glass: From Answer to Experience – LibAnswers FAQs Transformed
In 2018, the Library’s Public Services Team formalized a plan to re-imagine the pool of several hundred static, redundant, and sometimes out-of-date published FAQs to function as a mobile-friendly, visually appealing introduction to Library and Museum resources. Revised FAQs highlight relevant digital content from across the organization where possible, including blog posts, images, digitized library resources, and videos from our YouTube channel, as well as a small number of print and archival resources in our collections that might be of interest.
Four liaison librarians from very different disciplines (including Biology, Business, Media Studies, Social Work, and Writing) conducted a series of usability tests in Spring 2018. They asked participants to complete a series of tasks using James Madison University subject guides, and all screen activity and voices were captured using Morae Recorder. The results were fascinating, enlightening, and immediately useful. The research team is currently sharing practical implications from our findings with colleagues via a “Tip of the Week” email.
An overview of two years’ worth of data that demonstrates the impact of integrating LibGuides into Canvas, a learning management system, that put the library’s resources at our students’ point of need. The statistics will reflect the impact of LTI integration on LibGuide visits, online reference chat service, streaming media usage, eBook usage and faculty awareness of resources. Learn how changing the way students access your resources can positively impact your library services.
Boise State Univ. & Georgia College Libraries: Common Reader Remix – Librarians Leading Innovation
This presentation describes the evolution of two campuses’ common reading programs from single item, book-based reads, to curated lists of essays. The essay selections are accessed via LibGuides and leverage library collections and open resource selections. LibGuides are used to track usage and organize materials that accompany the reading programs.
Wofford College Library: Library Memory is for Exhibits, Too
Library exhibits too frequently exist only ephemerally. Librarians can use Guides to give exhibits digital, interactive life, and a place in the library’s permanent memory. This presentation shows you how to maximize the effort put into exhibits by complementing the physical with digital space.
Univ. of Guelph-Hunter Library: LibWizard Tutorials for Training Student Workers
At the University of Guelph-Humber student workers, known as Research Support Peers, staff a service desk to assist their peers in the research process. LibWizard tutorials were developed for training aids for these student workers. The tutorials include techniques for searching databases based on specific assignments and information on citation styles.
Kennesaw State Univ. Library: Student-Centered Design – Creating LibGuides Students Actually Use
Having trouble creating and maintaining research guides that students actually use? We were! Learn how we addressed several years of low usage statistics and general dissatisfaction with our guides by creating a new blueprint based on student feedback. We shared the results of our study, highlighting what students are really looking for, as well as tips for using these design research methods yourself!
What do you do when your institution’s systems librarian leaves and you inherit the responsibility for maintaining your library’s website and LibApps products? Run and hide? No! Despite a lack of coding knowledge, not only can you keep the website functioning, but you can also improve it. You, too, can use LibGuides CMS to power your website all while learning to code on the fly!
As online tools, research guides should follow best practices for user experience, while also serving the needs of researchers on our campuses. Much has been published about LibGuide design in the last decade, and it can be hard to wade through the variety of literature, much of it gray literature. In keeping with evidence-based library and information practice, the researchers conducted an in-depth literature review, developed a set of literature-informed best practices for LibGuide design, and applied them to their own guides.
California Univ. of Pennsylvania Library: Saving Time with Hidden Boxes and Reusable Content
Learn how I use hidden boxes and reusable links to save time and standardize content on our LibGuides-based library website. These elements help manage the announcements that appear on the home page, display special messages in a top banner box that is enabled when needed, and provide standardized content for reuse by other LibGuide editors.