Poster presented at American Library Association 2008 Annual Conference
Anaheim, CA - June 2008
by Tiffany Hebb (thebb@depauw.edu) & Kathryn Courtland Millis (millisk@depauw.edu)
Academic librarians have long maintained general pathfinders for subjects like art, biology, and sociology, and course-specific guides to support instruction.
While we value our role in supporting curricular and research needs,
academic librarians should also support their students' needs for
extracurricular, recreational, health, and other information, just as a
public library does. We can and should provide resources about current
and campus events such as visiting speakers, colloquia, festivals, and
exhibits. DePauw University's librarians are finding new ways to support campus
activiites and engage with student and faculty interests. Using
LibGuides, librarians are creating guides on topics such as global
warming (for "Focus the Nation"), for campus speakers and visiting
scholars, and for celebrations. These guides include RSS feeds of
current news stories, links to reliable websites, embedded video and
audio, and results of pre-constructed searches in our library catalog
and subscription databases. Guides include surveys and allow comments,
giving us feedback on their usefulness. These guides show campus groups and the campus at large that
librarians are interested in their activities, and can provide relevant,
timely support to those who wish to learn more.
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Check out ALL our LibGuides at http://libguides.depauw.edu or see how other libraries are using LibGuides at the LibGuides Community site.
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