Campus Guides Policies

Wed Oct 7 15:28:57 EDT 2015

Thanks. I think that this is an excellent point. And frankly, I couldn't, nor do I want to replace subject librarians! However, as i say, we do need some technical guidelines (accessibility, responsive, etc...).

I appreciate your response, it really made me think!
:-)

Lisa
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From: Web technologies in libraries [WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Hess, M. Ryan [MHESS8 at DEPAUL.EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2015 3:21 PM
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Hi Lisa,

We too have had guide content standards and best practices in places since LG1. In fact, we learned quite a bit from LG1 which informed out current guidelines for LG2.

You've probably been inundated with guidelines by now, but I would add the following to the conversation:

I think its very common to have different cultures in an organization that view web content differently. It became a chief concern of the LG2 Project to establish an understanding that certain parties should have authority over certain decisions by virtue of their professional focus. For example, Library Instruction should have ultimate say over pedagogy (guidelines for guides), but Digital Services should over Info Architecture/Usability and Tech Services should over organizing the resources. I think we all need to be better at learning to lean on the expertise around us and not think any single person knows it all. Well, anyone except Neil deGrasse Tyson....

To illustrate this, I've noticed that most librarians still don't think in terms of responsive design and so their guides are often designed with full-screen users in mind. Because of this issue, we enshrined the concept of simple, linear narratives within our guide creation guidelines and locked-down templates to keep people from missing this critical usability issue with a responsive site. At the same time, we allowed the subject expert total freedom in terms of how many pages they create and how they label/organize those pages.

M Ryan Hess
Digital Services Coordinator
DePaul University
JTR 303-C, DePaul University, Lincoln Park Campus, 2350 N Kenmore Ave., Chicago IL 60614
office: 773-325-7829 | cell:  650-224-7279 |  fax: 773-325-2297  | mhess8 at depaul.edu<https://outlook.depaul.edu/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx>
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From: Web technologies in libraries [WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Henley, Michelle R. [gerry.8 at OSU.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2015 3:35 PM
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Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Campus Guides Policies

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.

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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