Campus Guides Policies

[Steven Turner]

Sure thing:

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Gross, Jill <jgross at iona.edu> wrote:

> Please share with me too. We are doing the same. Thanks!!
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> *Jill Gross*
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> *Media & Digital Resources Librarian, CELTIC*
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> Office: 914.633.2353
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> *From:* Web technologies in libraries <WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU> on behalf
> of Steven Turner <sjturner at GMAIL.COM>
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 08, 2015 12:34 PM
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> *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> *Subject:* Re: [WEB4LIB] Campus Guides Policies
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> Sure thing!
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> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm) <
> haitzlm at ucmail.uc.edu> wrote:
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>> 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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