Access to Non-Discovery Databases

[Teresa Ashley]

Those are great ideas Lauren.  We have been using Libguides (which we call
research guides) for this purpose.  This guide--
http://researchguides.austincc.edu/austin-area-north--for instance,
features some of the locations outside the city proper that our
multi-campus community college serves, allowing us to provide links to
local newspapers and other features.  We also promote databases for the
various disciplines in our Subject Guides.

We use a Spotlight <http://spotlightaccls.blogspot.com/> feature on our library
home page <http://library.austincc.edu/> to draw attention to specific
resources.  The spotlights change every two weeks.

Teresa Ashley

Teresa K. Ashley, Faculty, Librarian (Professor)
Northridge Campus Library
Austin Community College
11928 Stonehollow Drive, Austin, TX 78758-3101
512.223.4742 | tashley (at) austincc (dot) edu


On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Stokes Lauren P. <stokesl at lvccld.org> wrote:

>  I use a blog – The Librarian’s Brain -
> http://librarianbrain.wordpress.com/ for databases. I started this in
> 2008, to promote our databases. What’s neat about it, posts show up in a
> Google search.  We also have one for downloadable content – eRead Me Vegas
> http://www.readmevegas.blogspot.com/
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> We also promote these blog posts on our Facebook page
> https://www.facebook.com/LVCCLDLibrary?sk=wall and Twitter account
> https://twitter.com/lvccld. They are automatically feed to the social
> media tools via the blog.
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> Last year I also started using LibGuides – http://hottopics.lvccld.orgwhich replaced a home grown system which was not very flexible. This allows
> for more discovery via Google as well.
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> We use to have a Discovery tool (WebFeat) but discounted it and have not
> added one back.
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> Lauren Stokes, Virtual Library Manager
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> Las Vegas-Clark County Library District
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> 7060 W. Windmill Ln.
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> Las Vegas, NV 89113
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> 702.507.6302
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> eBooks & eAudio available at http://ebooks.lvccld.org
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> eRead Me Vegas at http://www.readmevegas.blogspot.com/
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> Free Music every week to keep! At
> http://www.freegalmusic.com/users/idlogin
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> *From:* Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] *On
> Behalf Of *Ferdman, Glenn
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 05, 2013 2:29 PM
> *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> *Subject:* [WEB4LIB] Access to Non-Discovery Databases
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> How do you advertise and provide access to licensed content that your
> discovery service does not currently include?
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> Do you post a notice near the discovery search window containing that
> information, along with a link to a separate databases page?
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> Thanks in advance for your replies.
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> Glenn
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> Glenn Ferdman, MLS
> Director of Library Services
> Park University
> 8700 NW River Park Dr., Box 61
> Parkville, MO 64152
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> P: (816) 584-6707
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> F: (816) 741-4911
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> gferdman at park.edu
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> http://www.park.edu/
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