Campus Guides Policies

Tue Oct 6 16:35:37 EDT 2015

Hi Lisa,

Here is some information from someone who was involved in our LibGuides 2.0 rollout:

The Ohio State University Libraries policy recommends reusing provided widgets/database links for ease of maintenance and also limits the scope of the system to subject guides for a novice audience. Our concern was very much that people would try to use LibGuides for everything, rather than using our blog system and library website for non-guide content.

We don't have a policing policy around layout or navigation choices - however, the training committee has worked with a few individuals when best practices aren't being followed.

[The Ohio State University]
Michelle (Gerry) Henley
Integrated Library Systems Manager
Libraries, Information Technology Applications Development & Support
320 18th Avenue Library, 175 W 18th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210
614-688-3512 Office / 614-292-3062 Fax
gerry.8 at osu.edu<mailto:gerry.8 at osu.edu>

From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm)
Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2015 12:27 PM
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Subject: [WEB4LIB] Campus Guides Policies

De-cloaking to ask the collective a question.

We have many, many Springshare Campus Guides: about 676! Our guides live at : http://guides.libraries.uc.edu/.

We just migrated to Version 2 this summer. However, many of our folks are starting to put more and more content on "guides" that we feel don't belong on a guide, but should reside on our main website. (http://libraries.uc.edu/). The concern is inconsistent navigation (from the main website, but also from one guide to another), incorrect information (url's not updated, etc...), and just plain lousy layout.

So- as we begin this holy war discussion ( there is discussion here as to whether the web group (which sets policies and standards for the web SITE), should even be able to set standards on our Guides pages as some feel it is interfering with their faculty right of "freedom of speech". Others use their guides as 'publishing' for tenure requirements and feel no one should be telling them how to present the info.) I wonder-:

Do you have policies/standards covering campus guides? Are these different than the rest of your web content? Is there a separate group?

Any examples of guidelines or standards, as well as words of wisdom would be appreciated

Thanks!

Re-cloaking

Lisa Haitz
Web Developer
Interim- Chair- Web Management Group
University of Cincinnati Libraries
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