LIBRARY RESEARCH GUIDES “LIBGUIDES” What is a LibGuide?

Types of guides, examples

Stats on guides at UAS

Benefits

Connecting with e-learners, new and innovative uses

How to get one for your program, class, or assignment

WHAT IS A LIBGUIDE? Library Research Guides

“Web 2.0 library knowledge sharing system”

Ability to share widgets for search and chat, RSS feeds, podcasts, ebooks, tutorials, videos, etc.; all can be made available through LibGuides

“Research made simpler” – collections cultivated by a librarian liaison with faculty subject expertise

http://uas.alaska.libguides.com/index.php

TYPES OF GUIDES AND EXAMPLES Course Guides

ENGL 418 Travel ED 627 Education Grant Funding Sources CHEM 104 Organic and Biochemistry

General Purpose Beginning your Research Advanced Researcher Tools

Subject Guides Government, Political Science, and Law Technology and Computing

Program Guides Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement

STATS66 GUIDES, 1440 VIEWS, 77 DAYS (FALL 2015)

BENEFITS OF GUIDES

Increase student use of library & improve access to library

services

Embedded

Librarian

Easy access to databases, articles & ebooks

More online

tutorials

MORE BENEFITS

Easily adjusted to your needs, Flexible contentOnly the most useful information tailored to what you are teachingImprove student awareness of scholarship and university privileges

CONNECTING WITH E-LEARNERS / NEW INNOVATIVE USES

“I didn’t know I could use the library” – meeting the needs of students online. Joe Hardenbrook, UW Green Bay Meeting the needs of students online https://mrlibrarydude.wordpress.com/category/libguides/

Lack of awareness Uneven student preparation Research tips forum in class

Student art submissions, “Distance Learning Week” Berkeley College http://berkeleycollege.libguides.com/content.php?pid=417

407&sid=3411863

Student collaborative authoring Link to surveys

HOW TO GET ONE FOR YOUR PROGRAM, CLASS, OR ASSIGNMENT – LIAISONS

REFERENCES & IMAGES

Image slide 1 – created in Canva.com, by Jennifer Ward Do the Outcomes Justify the Buzz?: An Assessment of LibGuides at

Cornell University and Princeton University http://www.slideshare.net/smadams/do-the-outcomes-justify-the-buzz-an-assessment-of-libguides-at-cornell-university-and-princeton-university Student art submissions, “Distance Learning Week” Berkeley College http://berkeleycollege.libguides.com/content.php

?pid=417407&sid=3411863

Meeting the needs of students online https://mrlibrarydude.wordpress.com/category/lib

guides/