[Web4lib] Do you use LibGuides? - questions about subscription databases if you are a LibGuides library

[Brian Gray]

If each librarian used the link module, the administrator can override a
link in all the guides. I am not sure if it will do a delete. There is also
a built in link checker.

Brian Gray
mindspiral at gmail.com


On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Walker, David <dwalker at calstate.edu> wrote:

> I'm entirely unfamiliar with LibGuides, but interested in this question.
>
> What happens now, for example, if you end your subscription to a particular
> database.  Does each person who linked to that database from their guide
> have to find it and remove it themselves?
>
> --Dave
>
> ==================
> David Walker
> Library Web Services Manager
> California State University
> http://xerxes.calstate.edu
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> Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 12:18 PM
> To: Douglas Goans
> Cc: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Do you use LibGuides? - questions about subscription
>     databases if you are a LibGuides library
>
> We do not maintain our database list within LibGuides. We really do not
> think LibGuides was designed for that practice. We have many databases in
> our master list. Within the LibGuides the experts are able to mention some
> keep starting points rather than inte iterating all the databases
> available.
>
> http://researchguides.case.edu/
>
> http://library.case.edu/databases/rdbindex.aspx
>
> Brian Gray
> mindspiral at gmail.com
> bcg8 at case.edu
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Douglas Goans <libdgg at langate.gsu.edu
> >wrote:
>
> > The Georgia State University Library has transitioned to LibGuides for
> > research guides. Now we are having to reconsider the maintenance of our
> > database listings. If you are a LibGuide library and have just a couple
> > minutes, please give us some input that will assist us in making some
> > decisions.
> >
> >  1. Does your database lists in LibGuides display dynamically from an RSS
> > or XML feed from another source? Or are you manually adding, editing, and
> > maintaining the lists inside of LibGuides itself? Who is responsible for
> > maintaining the master list in your library...a subject librarian, a
> > cataloger, the web person, the e-resources person, a group?
> >
> >  2. If you maintain your lists manually within LibGuides, do you also
> > create subject specific sets [content boxes? channels?] as well for other
> > guides to automatically include? Or are your subject librarians
> responsible
> > for manually creating their individual subject specific sets within their
> > own guides?
> >
> >  3. If database metadata is maintained by one person natively in
> LibGuides,
> > do they maintain URLs, and database titles, and database descriptions? Do
> > they remove old or dropped databases and add new ones? Also, do they
> alert
> > everyone about any of the above changes? Do they perform maintenance on
> the
> > A-Z master list alone or do they also update all the subject specific
> sets
> > of databases? If applicable, how is this different if the database
> metadata
> > resides in an external system that feeds the data to LibGuides?
> >
> >  4. How extensive is your database category list? A dozen or less broad
> > categories? More? How are category labels decided and added? Where in
> your
> > organization does the responsibility lie for maintaining your database
> > category taxonomy and assigning or removing databases for those
> categories?
> >
> >  5. If your database lists reside natively in LibGuides, do you have an
> > alternative access method if LibGuides servers go down? If your proxy
> server
> > goes down?
> >
> >  6. If you are using LibGuides to manage your databases is it a guide(s)
> > that is unpublished and only used to populate active guides? Or are you
> > publishing that guide as your public "List of Databases" or "Database
> > Finder" system?
> >
> > 7. Any other thoughts regarding maintaining database listings within
> > LibGuides?
> >
> >
> > Related URLs:
> >
> > GaState's Historical List of Databases
> > http://www.library.gsu.edu/databases/
> >
> > GaState's LibGuides implementation
> > http://research.library.gsu.edu/
> >
> > Thank your for any information you may provide.
> > -Doug
> >
> >
> >
> > Doug Goans
> > Web Development Librarian
> > Georgia State University Library
> > 100 Decatur St.
> > Atlanta. GA 30303
> > Tel: (404) 413 2772
> > Fax: (404) 651-4315
> >
> >
> >
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