All of this, plus SpringShare has great support. Like, the best of any library
vendor I've dealt with. I've had them implement features within an hour of me
sending the email suggesting it.
The big downside of LibGuides is that it's ease of use (and ease if reuse)
leads to content sprawl like
I have to say that I loathe LibGuides. My library makes extensive use of
them, too. Need a web solution? The first thing out of someone's mouth is
Let's put it in a LibGuide!
Shudder
This fall, I'll be moving our main site over to Drupal, and I'm hoping that
eventually I can convince people to
Your best bet is to get a clear mandate from administration on what should go
where. i.e., Writing a subject guide for faculty and students to use? Put it
in a LibGuide. Creating a departmental, unit, or committee site? Use the new
fancy, shiny web content management system!
Barring that,
If you look at the subject guides plugin for Drupal, you will see that
mimicking LibGuides is possible. That might be a way to appease, however
the biggest issue I saw with LibGuides was too many librarians making
something and never updating, or starting a guide, publishing it, then
never
For Wordpress versus LibGuides, both are kind of miserable and unsatisfying
unless you are with a large library with in-house systems staff.
LibGuides was clunky and extremely limited when I used it a few years ago.
I also found Springshare tech support was not at all responsive to
questions or
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Heather Rayl 23e...@gmail.com wrote:
I have to say that I loathe LibGuides. My library makes extensive use of
them, too. Need a web solution? The first thing out of someone's mouth is
Let's put it in a LibGuide!
Shudder
This fall, I'll be moving our main
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I've found that librarians gravitate towards tools like LibGuides and
WordPress because they want to use what they've seen other libraries using,
putting me in a strange position when try to explain that we (with more
tech resources) can actually do better.
Several times I've had the experience
Hello?
Soringshre's link-rot tool has gotten much better. Even at alerting admins
about broken links. I think $999 a year for the basic package is worth it since
most librarians aren't coders like we 'ALL' should be! Maybe an open source
solution created by librarians is needed. However
There are open source solutions created by librarians: SubjectsPlus and
Library a la Carte.
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Cornel Darden Jr. corneldarde...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hello?
Soringshre's link-rot tool has gotten much better. Even at alerting admins
about broken links. I think $999
Technology tools are a non issue here. Straightforward documented open
source technology is readily available. What is missing is technology
skills. Someone can't buy those if they don't already have technology
skills, or else they are a sitting duck for scammers.
With a basic pricing of about
I don't get this argument at all. Why is it counter productive to try to
look at open source alternatives if the vendor's option is relatively
cheap? Why wouldn't you investigate all options? Maybe the vendor option
makes sense, maybe the open source option does.
The technology skills for open
On 12/08/13 12:20, Andrew Darby wrote:
I don't get this argument at all. Why is it counter productive to try to
look at open source alternatives if the vendor's option is relatively
cheap? Why wouldn't you investigate all options?
If you have no in-house technical capability, the cost of
Andrew Darby writes
I don't get this argument at all.
I breathe a sigh of relief. I didn't understand it either, but
I blamed my brain fog.
Maybe the vendor option makes sense, maybe the open source option
does.
The vendor option may be based on it just hosting the open source
stuart yeates writes
If you have no in-house technical capability, the cost of looking at
an open source alternative can easily outweigh the multi-year
licensing fee.
Yeah, but if you don't have an in-house technical capability you
condemn yourself to history. I bet that in the middle
I've worked at a small, under-resourced institution that had LibGuides,
despite the fact that as a staff member I did have the technical know-how
to install and maintain an open-source solution. So why didn't we? My
existing job duties without an open-source guide project already demanded
120%
I don't think the remedy to a lack of technology skills is to make
librarians into shade tree sysadmins.
*That's* the expense that gets swept under the rug in the open source
argument. Most advocates have systems administrators and infrastructure to
support implementing things themselves and
no one has mention the integration of LibGuides into other packages. Anyone
here involved with Summon 2.0? it is integrating libguides... but we are not a
libguide site. curious if others would put that into the consideration bucket.
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