The layout of Subject Guides homepage on Libguides is now updated to what was agreed upon at the meeting on Tuesday 21st April. See Heather’s summary.

The only slight modification is to the Featured Guides box – in the mockup it looked as if we could have 5 guides featured at any one time while still allowing for the tags box below to be visible on most screen, but in the live version we only have room to feature 3 guides.

There are only 2 guides left to be fully published in LibGuides, and these should be ready this afternoon. Once these are completed the link to subject guides that is on every page on the Library’s website will be changed to go to the homepage on LibGuides.

Any questions or comments ASAP, either here or to Library IT

Catherine

This posting has now been transferred to the wiki page – LibGuides Sandbox area

I’ve just added a new category to the Statistics page on Camelot – statistics for hits on our subject guides now hosted on LibGuides.

These are displayed as the number of hits by subject guide by month. This is the total number of hits on all pages (tabs and subtabs) on each guide. It does also include hits on unpublished and test ones like “Catherine’s experimental page” which should mostly be ignored. You can also see the most popular 10 guides on the Subject Guides homepage on LibGuides.

Authors can see more detail about hits on their own guides by looking at the Usage & Statistics tab. You can see hits by each page within your guide.

Catherine

Just a reminder that once you have published and linked your subject guide on LibGuides, you should NOT change its “friendly url” without consulting Library IT. There are big implications for links, redirects and bookmarks.

Catherine Jane

If you want Library IT to create a report please use the new Report Request form A link to the form is available on the Horizon Reports page.

Please provide as much information as possible.

If you find the form does not fit your needs please notify Library IT

Margaret

There is a bug in the UC People & Research Database that results in your department being added to the department list of records when you edit records as part of the verification process. So, if you’re verifying records over the next few days, could you please make sure your department is removed from the department tab at the end of the editing process.

Fingers crossed, this should be cleared up swiftly – I’ll post an update when the problem has been resolved.

Grant.

Pre-overdue notices are now being emailed each morning. These notices will be sent to students and staff 3 days before an item is due, and only for items that have been loaned for longer than 3 days.

At the moment we are not offering an “opt-out” service. However, please inform Library IT if there are any complaints from borrowers.

Donna

Now on the Camelot wiki – Creating a backup of your subject guide

I’ve been asked to put up some instructions for creating anchors in LibGuides. I do suggest that you use them sparingly – if your page is only about 2 screens in length they are probably unnecessary and just added clutter, and if your page is longer than that, you might want to consider dividing it into shorter pages.

However, there may be times when you want anchors, so this is how you create them.

It’s a 2 step process.

First you have to create an anchor in the box that you want to link to from the top list.

1) To do this click on edit text in the target box.
2) In the second line of the menu bar you’ll see an icon for an anchor. Click on this.
3) An “insert/edit anchor” box will appear. Give your anchor a name – very brief, one word, but something reasonably descriptive.
4) Click on insert.

Then go to where you want the link to this box to appear

1) Create an html link in the usual way.
2)The url for the link should start with a # followed by the name of the anchor eg #myanchor. You don’t need anything else (no http:// etc).

Contact Library IT if you are having problems

Catherine

You may have noticed that the image uploader in LibGuides was not working. It ishould be now – let me know if you are still having problems accessing it.

It is part of a LibGuides add-on that we would have to purchase – apparently it was available for a time as a trial, and we missed the messages that said the free trial was about to end. SpringShare have very generously allowed us more time to evaluate whether we want to purchase it or not.

It may be that we change the way we manage images in LibGuides, but if that happens, we’ll give you plenty of notice and instructions on what to do.

Catherine