Monthly Archives: February 2011

More about indexes and objects

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Mita Williams

The more that I’ve been thinking and consulting with others about how to handle indexes in our new website, the more I think that using URL shortners or PURL or Handle urls are not the way to proceed. Ideally, the … Continue reading →

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Can we turn indexes into re-useable objects?

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Mita Williams

So, one of the reasons why I’m frequently so down on LibGuides is that I feel that it’s a manifestation of weak social software. Weak social software, to me, is just regular old 1.0 software plus a star rating system … Continue reading →

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Ebooks in and out of the library catalogue. Umlat in and out of the catalogue

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Mita Williams

So while we have been talking about what we would like our new website to look like, we’ve also been having conversations at MPOW about how to handle our growing number of ebooks.  And it was only through thinking through … Continue reading →

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Research Guides v. Subject Guides

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Mita Williams

What’s the different between a library subject guide and a library research guide? From my observations, a page of just indexes and article-finding tools is a ‘subject guide’ but a page (or set of pages) dedicated to the a select … Continue reading →

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Design problem: how to handle indexes

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Mita Williams

Library indexes are strange birds. They are not serials nor are they books, and so they are not assigned ISSNs or an ISBN. Their coverage and scope are documented in detail in the  library’s link resolver but this information can’t … Continue reading →

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