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- We'll start out by giving you an overview and showing some examples, and then we'll delve in to hands-on work.
- If you want to pull up this outline page, it will have all the links on it: http://libraries.mit.edu/libtalks
- We'll have drop-in sessions in a few weeks, so don't worry too much if you get a little confused...
- Thursday, 7/24, 11-12
- Thursday, 8/7, 2-3
- Monday, 8/18, 4-5
- Wednesday, 8/27, 3-4
- What is LibGuides? Content management system; specifically designed for libraries by Springshare. They've gotten great feedback from other institutions, and customer service is excellent. Hosted on an outside server.
- Why we chose LibGuides: interactive features that we couldn't implement easily ourselves; no need for people to know html
- Task Force formed by UIG & RISG: Remlee, Peter, Angie, Maggie, Georgiana
- Limitations (ex., can't upload images, not totally customize-able, everything in a box, can't remove borders, etc.)
- Use the guidelines: http://libstaff.mit.edu/web/guidelines/libguides.html
- Keep it simple
- Writing for the web is a helpful resource: http://libstaff.mit.edu/web/writing/
- Show bad example: http://libguides.mit.edu/bad (The bad one shows examples of every kind of available box to show! too many tabs, vague tab names)
- Show good example: http://libguides.mit.edu/materials2
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