[WEB4LIB] RE: styleguides redux

[Frank, Ilene]

If your institution has a license for Refworks, you can create as many accounts as you'd like. I have one account that I gave to a group of education faculty who built a shared database of more than 4000 citations which they then winnowed down to the  couple of hundred articles they wanted to study. 4000 entries?  No problems!  RefWorks can be dingy when it creates citations. We always tell everyone to check what gets produced against a style manual,  but it's all editable - and the fact that RefWorks is web-based, usuable off-campus, and can act as a big bucket for collecting information about items of interest makes it an good tool for our users.  

Sincerely,

Ilene Frank, ifrank at lib.usf.edu
Reference Department
Tampa Campus Library, LIB 122
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL 33620-5400
(813)974-2483
http://www.lib.usf.edu/ref/ifrank/ 



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[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Thomas, Susan Elaine
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 11:05 AM
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Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: styleguides redux


I highly recommend investing in Refworks Software.  It offers over 300
style manuals and is programmed to work with Word to help in creating
papers and bibliographies.  It also offers unlimited storage for created
bibliographies and the option (I believe this costs extra) to share
bibliographies.  It also contains online help for the various styles
with brief information taken from the manuals.  It is not difficult to
use although some may find it a bit cumbersome to use at first.  From
their own quotes from students, one student commented that Refworks is
"better than Christmas."

Susan

Susan E. Thomas
Head of Collection Development
Schurz Library
Indiana University South Bend
(574) 520-5500
suethoma at iusb.edu

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Karen Davis
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 8:40 AM
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Subject: [WEB4LIB] styleguides redux

Hi, all-
I would be interested in knowing how others compile and maintain their
web site style guides. It seems to me that this could be a
time-consuming task or a relatively efficient one, depending upon how it
is approached.

Any tips would be appreciated. (I plan on using The Associated Press
Stylebopok as my starting point).

* Is an online version the best way to go? 

* or pdf format? 

* online submission form for content developers?

*other thoughts?

TIA, karen

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Karen Davis, Coordinator
Center for Community Networking & 
Web Administrator
Lawrence Public Library
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785.843.3833 ext. 104

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