Campus Guides Policies

[Steven Turner]

Sure thing!

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm) <
haitzlm at ucmail.uc.edu> wrote:

> Wow, sounds fabulous! If you can share any specific policies, that would
> be great!
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> Lisa
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> *From:* Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] *On
> Behalf Of *Steven Turner
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 08, 2015 12:22 PM
> *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> *Subject:* Re: [WEB4LIB] Campus Guides Policies
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> Hi Lisa,
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> At the University of Alabama, we were concerned with the same trend, which
> reached an apex about 4 years ago, prompting the creation of a very
> specific polcies and guidelines document, detailing what could and could
> not be placed into a libguide as content - essentially we decided that the
> content had to support a class, or general departmental subject area, and
> we removed the content that did not match these criteria and placed it back
> into the website.
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> Fast-forward 4 years, and we have gone through a massive redesign of the
> website, with a renewed focus on the website as a tool for resource
> exposure and library information. All 'intellectual' content has been moved
> to either wordpress blogs or into libguides 2.0, creating a distinct
> separation between website content (resources, research, library info),
> libguides content (class and subject support), and blog usage (kitchen
> sink, news, personal, etc.). We also stipulated very specific design rules
> based on our own usability research, and the available literature - we do
> not feel that design and navigation have anything to do with intellectual
> freedom, and are furthermore of such importance in terms of providing the
> user with a consistent experience that we really needed to specify
> navigation, layout and what a page should consist of in terms elements,
> blocks, etc.
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> We do have a single librarian who manages and admins libguides, and that
> is very helpful when it comes to compliance and interaction with the rest
> of the librarians for compliance and enforcing standards / best practices.
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> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm) <
> haitzlm at ucmail.uc.edu> wrote:
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> De-cloaking to ask the collective a question.
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> We have many, many Springshare Campus Guides: about 676! Our guides live
> at : http://guides.libraries.uc.edu/.
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> 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.
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> 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-:
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> Do you have policies/standards covering campus guides? Are these different
> than the rest of your web content? Is there a separate group?
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> Any examples of guidelines or standards, as well as words of wisdom would
> be appreciated
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> Thanks!
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> Re-cloaking
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> Lisa Haitz
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> *Web Developer*
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> *Interim- Chair- Web Management Group*
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> *University of Cincinnati Libraries*
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