[Web4lib] Do you use LibGuides? - questions about subscriptiondatabases if you are a LibGuides l

[Jonathan Blackburn]

Hi All,

Thanks for all the great thoughts!

We are implementing LibGuidegs right now, and I have been struggling
with how to handle these very issues.  This is a great help.

I wonder, however, if there is an opportunity here we may be missing.

It sound to me like we are struggling with the some of the same
challeges regarding database link management and integration with
LibGuides.

Yet, as is sadly typical in the library community, we are all (by
necessity, as I see it) "homebaking" our own solutions and hacks.

What if there were a common set of suggestions or feature requests
that we could make to the LibGuides folks that would help both us and
them tackle these problems with a minimum of duplicated effort?

I can't say I know what those are, but anyone have any thoughts, initial ideas?


-Jon


Jonathan Blackburn
Web Development Librarian
Florida State University Libraries
Phone: 850.645.6986
AIM/E-mail: jblackbu at fsu.edu



On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Chris Barr
<christopher.barr at villanova.edu> wrote:
> Has anyone tried using something like Sidepath (http://thesidepath.com/) to
> manage simple .htaccess redirects for something like this?
>
> --chris barr
>
>
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> Douglas Goans wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone. This is a follow up to the thread with a link to the
>> responses that we received regarding libguides and subscription databases.
>>
>>
>> http://www.library.gsu.edu/files/research/121/LibGuides-database-listserv-responses.pdf
>> We are currently reviewing the responses and are leaning toward creating
>> permalinks to our resources so that libguide authors have the option to
>> create lists or links to subscription resources manually (or utilize
>> automatically generated lists in the future as those options evolve)
>>
>> A permalink strategy (aka PURL or PURLS) will let us continue to evolve,
>> merge, or replace our ERM/MetaLib/Xerxes/CMS applications used to maintain
>> subscription resource links and metadata without libguide authors having to
>> manage link maintenance.
>>
>> We have our permalinks in place and are testing them before officially
>> adopting this strategy.
>>
>> Thank you.
>> -DG
>>
>>
>> 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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