Using LibGuides to Enhance Library Services: A LITA Guide

Aaron W. Dobbs Ryan L. Sittler Douglas Cook Library and Information Technology Association (LITA)

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978-1-55570-880-1

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2013

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ALA Neal-Schuman

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328

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Softcover

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Table of Contents
About the Authors
Reviews

The easy-to-use tools in Springshare's LibGuides help you organize webpages, improve students' research experience and learning, and offer an online community of librarians sharing their work and ideas. Editors Dobbs, Sittler, and Cook have recruited expert contributors to address specific applications, creating a one-stop reference. Readers will be able to create subject guides that achieve the full potential of LibGuides with advice on such topics as

Learning from the best—a showcase of 28 LibGuides with exceptional design and pedagogy
Collaborating with faculty to embed LibGuides in course management systems
Creating a customized look to your LibGuides with design flair and enhanced functionality
Getting ready for smart-phone users with a plan for the mobile web
Setting up Google Analytics on a LibGuide site
Teaching with LibGuides

Preface

Acknowledgments

PART 1: A Brief Introduction to Libraries and the Internet

1 A Short History of Library Guides and Their Usefulness

to Librarians and Patrons

Jennifer Emanuel

PART 2: Administering and Maintaining LibGuides—for System Librarians

2 Making the Case Campus-wide

for Purchasing LibGuides

Stephanie DeLano Davis

3 Administering LibGuides:Planning, Implementation, and Beyond

Beth Larkee Kumar and Tabatha Farney

4 Strategies and Techniques for Administrators

Aaron W. Dobbs and Rich Gause

5 Developing LibGuides Training: A Blended-Learning Approach

Laura Westmoreland Gariepy, Emily S. Mazure, Jennifer A. McDaniel, and Erin R. White

PART 3: Creating LibGuides—For Guide Creators

6 Design: Why It Is Important and How to Get It Right

Nedda H. Ahmed

7 Integrating LibGuides into the Teaching-Learning Process

Veronica Bielat, Rebeca Befus, and Judith Arnold

8 Creating Your First LibGuide

Kenneth Liss

9 Adding Some Pizzazz to Your Guides

Kathy Gaynor

PART 4: Making Better Use of LibGuides

10 Helping Users Help Themselves: Maximizing LibAnswers Usage

Aaron Tay

11 Using Statistical Gathering Tools to Determine Effectiveness and Accountability

Lora Baldwin and Sue A. McFadden

12 Using LibGuides to Promote Information Literacy in a Distance Education Environment

Barbara J. Mann, Julie Lee Arnold, and Joseph Rawson

13 Why Go Mobile?

Mark Ellis, Leslie Adebonojo, and Kathy Campbell

PART 5: Technological and Pedagogical Exemplars from Academic, K–12, Public, and Special Libraries

14 Showcase of Exceptional LibGuides

Sharon Whitfield and Claire Clemens

About the Editors and Chapter Contributors

Index

Aaron W. Dobbs

Aaron W. Dobbs is systems and electronic resources librarian and assistant professor at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. He received his master's degree in management from Austin Peay State University and his MSLS from the University of Tennessee. Dobbs is heavily involved in the American Library Association as councilor-at-large on the ALA Council, chair of the ALA Website Advisory Committee, and as an ACRL legislative advocate. His current professional interest is in creating student-centered library websites, particularly with LibGuides.

Ryan L. Sittler

Ryan L. Sittler is the instructional technology/information literacy librarian at California University of Pennsylvania. Ryan holds an MLS from Clarion University, an MSIT from Bloomsburg University, and is ABD in communications media and instructional technology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Sittler has coedited two other books with Doug Cook: Practical Pedagogy for Library Instructors (2008) and The Library Instruction Cookbook (2009). He is also part of a team that developed the educational information literacy game A Planet in Peril: Plagiarism, which won the Caspian Learning 2010 Serious Games Challenge.

Douglas Cook

Douglas Cook is an instruction librarian and professor at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. He received his MLS from the University of Maryland and DEd from Pennsylvania State University. He has recently coedited five books: with Tasha Cooper, Teaching Information Literacy Skills to Social Science Students and Practioners (2006); with Ryan Sittler, Practical Pedagogy for Library Instructors (2008) and The Library Instruction Cookbook (2009); with Lesley Farmer, Using Qualitative Methods in Action Research (2011); and a children's book with Carolyn Cook, A Hike on the Appalachian Trail (2010). His current research interests are web-centered pedagogy and real-world definitions of information literacy.

Library and Information Technology Association (LITA)

The Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of ALA, educates, serves and reaches out to its members, other ALA members and divisions, and the entire library and information community through its publications, programs and other activities designed to promote, develop, and aid in the implementation of library and information technology.

"Although there have been many journal articles and conference papers written about LibGuides, this is the first attempt to pull this information together in a published volume. This is a readable and accessible guide and one I would particularly recommend to academic librarians."
— Australian Library Journal

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