Want to use content you or someone else has created to save yourself some hard work?
You can either copy (creates a new copy of it that you can edit) or link to (puts the item on your page but you can’t edit it, and if it’s changed in the original place it changes on your page too) boxes or pages from other LibGuides.
To do this:
click “Add new Side Box” or “Add new Box”
under “Type of Content” select “link to another box” (if you want changes in the original to show on your page) or “copy another box” (if you want to edit it)
select the guide you want to find the box on
select the box you want to use
click “Create Box”
As examples, you might be interested in:
copying “Finding Chemical Engineering books” from my Chemical Engineering guide (then editing the title and text in your own copy) – this includes a course code search box that links directly into the catalogue
linking to “What’s a call number?” also from my Chemical Engineering guide – this has a picture and a link to the call number tutorial pages.
Wait for it to load – it should eventually give you two rows of icons – things like ‘paragraph’ and B for bold and so forth.
Click the one in the middle of the bottom row showing a picture of a tree.
Click on “Click to upload” and browse for it (unless it’s already online, in which case just paste in the URL)
Give it a description (this will display if a user has images turned off, or is using a screenreader) and you can add in alignment, size, borders and spacing if you want.
Click “Insert”
You can see a preview. If you want, you can add text here to say more about the photo.
Hi from everyone up here in Auckland for LIANZA 2008!
Conference started yesterday with comics and dancing. Three of us were live-blogging the two keynotes at “Conference Launch” on the conference blog and you can still read up on it there.
We’re about to start the Monday keynote (at 9am), and we’ll keep live-blogging – check in at the conference blog throughout the next few days to see what’s going on as it happens.
A couple of things discovered while working with a student this evening:
If a Mac user is having trouble downloading references, first check their browser. Safari doesn’t recognise Endnote files as ‘safe’ so won’t open them automatically. Users will need to:
note the name of the file which will have saved to their Downloads folder;
in Endnote, go to File > Import;
select the correct file in the Downloads folder;
change ‘import options’ to RIS-filter.enf;
click “Import”.
In Firefox the user needs to tell the browser to open the file with Endnote, and check the “do this every time” box. If this doesn’t fix it then:
in Firefox go into Preferences > Applications;
search for “CGI file”;
set it to “Use other…” and find Endnote in the list of applications;
search for “RIS file”;
set that to “Use other…” > Endnote as well.
If the user has Endnote X1 and Word 2008, they need to follow instructions here to get the two working together. I haven’t tested this myself but if the Library gives me a license for Word 2008 on my Mac I will. 🙂
Edited to add – the student reports back that the patch linked from these instructions seems to be US-only and doesn’t work on his NZ Mac. Does anyone have Endnote X1 and Word 2008 and can play with this to work out an alternative solution?
Meg and I ran one trial of Library on Location (taking library books and DVDs etc and reference services out to student areas) in term 4 last year, and another one in term 2 this year.
For the second trial we compared our statistics with EL and PSL statistics at the same time – the branches did much better on circulation, unsurprisingly, but during term time our On Location service did better for reference statistics, and we met a number of people who for various reasons hadn’t been aware of library services or hadn’t been aware they were entitled to access them for free. It was a great experience getting to chat with people informally and let them know about what we have to offer.
We’re presenting on our findings at the Lianza conference in November, and afterwards we’ll be looking at setting up Library on Location here on a more regular basis, giving more librarians the chance to be involved. If you’re interested in knowing more, please email me or Meg, or post a comment here.
Library on Location is essentially a mini-bookmobile — wireless-enabled laptop, books and DVDs, etc on a book trolley — that Meg Upjohn and I (and occasional other helpers) took out to student areas during two trial periods as an outreach service. We’ll be presenting our results to the LIANZA conference in November.
Due to popular demand 🙂 we’ll be giving a ‘draft’ presentation next week for anyone interested. It’ll be a few days before we need to send our slides to LIANZA, so this’ll be your chance to tell us which parts are boring and which parts you want to hear more on.
Date: Tuesday 14 October Time: 11am Location: E4 (Engineering Library)
Thanks to everyone who came and especially everyone who presented ideas last Thursday! We got some good discussion going on, including: Continue reading Blue Skies #2 report-back→
BYO coffee to the second Blue Sky Forum! The forum will be held in Central Library level 4 training room this Thursday 14th August at 10:15-11:30 – please RSVP to Maureen Ruki if you’re coming.
This session will be a smorgasbord of topics – we’ll listen to a 3-4 minute on each one, and then discuss what we’ve heard in groups. Part of the goal of this session is to get ideas about what we want future Blue Sky sessions to be about.
The first Blue Skies forum had a great turnout – it was heaps of fun and we got a lot of thought buzzing around the room about catalogue interfaces.
Next week’s topic (Thurs 14th 10:15 – 11:30) is “the most exciting thing you’ve read about libraries this year” – we’d like to get a quick look at a whole pile of things and then talk about which ones we could explore in later Blue Skies forums and/or adapt for use at the library here.
So — seen something neat in a journal article, a blog, a newspaper, a website, some other library, or anywhere else? This is your chance to get the rest of us excited about it too. Send me an email by the end of the week and we’ll talk. 🙂
