[Web4lib] Contribute and Subject Guides

[Sarah Struble]

Annelise-
 We use macromedia contribute here at Boston University. Some of our
subject specialists were quite adept at creating pages in HTML before we
got this product, others were fairly unfamiliar with creating web pages.
They are all able to create and maintain their research guides using
Contribute. We do ask that they attend a training session in Contribute
that our University IT department offers before we issue a key to them.
Also, we have a couple of more-savy folks with Dreamweaver who help out
those with Contribute if they run into problems. But the WYSIWYG interface
for Contribute is very user friendly. If your subject specialists can use
Word they can use Contribute (with a little training and hand holding).

 -Sarah Struble

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Sarah Struble
Health Sciences Bibliographer &
Hospitality Administration Bibliographer
Mugar Memorial Library
Boston University
Boston, MA 02215

strubsa at bu.edu
phone 617.353.3714
fax 617.353.2084
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On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Annelise Y Sklar wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> I've inherited my library's subject-specific research
> guides and I'm trying to bring them into the 21st century.
> I'm particularly interested in the University of
> Minnesota's LibData and I'm wondering if anyone's had
> experience with it. For political reasons, though, I'm
> also interested in continuing to use static web pages and
> setting it up so that our selectors/instructors can edit
> them with Macromedia Contribute. Has anyone had success
> (or no success) with convincing non-web people to maintain
> their own pages in this manner?
>
> Many thanks!
> Annelise
>
> Annelise Sklar, MSLS
> Zimmerman Library Public Services
> MSC05 3020
> 1 University of New Mexico
> Albuquerque NM 87131-0001
> duchess at unm.edu
> AIM: unmzimmduchess
> (505) 277-8960
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