-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: LibGuides and map libraries COMPILATIONS
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 15:25:46 +0000
From: McEathron, Scott R <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
I like the fact that you can set it up (using the "links and lists" or
"web links" boxes) to get very detailed statistics on each and every
link on the guide. Thus, it is easy to see which resources and guides
are getting the most use.
For my promotion dossier, I was able to make a table that list all the
guides I have created with their hits by year.
The Maps, Atlases, and Gazetteers guide: http://guides.lib.ku.edu/map
Best wishes,
Scott McEathron
University of Kansas Libraries
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: LibGuides and map libraries COMPILATIONS
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 09:26:54 -0400
From: Marcel Fortin <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
CC: Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee
<[log in to unmask]>
I asked the same question about libguides a few weeks ago on
[log in to unmask] and got a few responses to where guides
were, but my most important question though to people who use libguides
was whether or not libguides are more useful than other web pages or
content management systems? I never did get an answer then so the the
discussion on guides on maps-l has been valuable.
I do have other questions/concerns about libguides though. For
instance, what happens to them in a few years when we decide the next
great platform has arrived? And the most important question is, has
anyone done any studies or surveys, or asked students or researchers
what they think of Libguides, or are they like many other library tools,
and that is, they are mainly meant to be (or end up being) used by
librarians and library staff mostly?
I have started a few Libguides but never finished one. I always find
that much of the information I would include in a guide is either found
easily elsewhere or I cover already with web pages. Should the libguide
be seen as an aggregator then? A few colleagues have told me they are
great for specific classes. Maybe.
I am still open to creating guides, but I am really worried about
investing alot of time on a system my institution must pay for, when I
could use a tool like Drupal or another content management system to
make my library information look unique, rather than the same as
everyone else's libguides.
Thanks again for the great discussion, but I would like to hear more
opinions, rather than more locations for guides.
--
Marcel Fortin
GIS and Map Librarian
Map and Data Library
University of Toronto
On 5/18/2012 09:11, Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library,
UW Milwaukee wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: LibGuides and map libraries
> Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 08:01:29 -0500
> From: Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee
> <[log in to unmask]>
> Organization: American Geographical Society Library
> To: Maps-L <[log in to unmask]>
>
> Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this request. Here is a
> list of all the responses - only one or two off-list. Feel free to
> keep conversing about the different role of a libguide in a
> map/geography library...
>
> Angie
>
> LIBGUIDES
>
> Michigan State University
> General map links: http://libguides.lib.msu.edu/maplinks
> GIS Guide: http://libguides.lib.msu.edu/gis Guide to Clason Road Maps
> and Atlases http://libguides.lib.msu.edu/Clason
> Using Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps http://libguides.lib.msu.edu/sanborn
> Early Mapping of Michigan and the Great Lakes, 1744-1862 (an online
> map
> exhibit) http://libguides.lib.msu.edu/earlymaps
> Guide to Detailed Land and Property Information in Michigan:
> http://libguides.lib.msu.edu/land
>
>
> University of Pittsburgh
> Here is our topographic maps guide at Pitt:
> http://pitt.libguides.com/topo
>
> And here is a more general (still "unpublished") guide to our map
> collection that I'm still working on:
> http://pitt.libguides.com/hillman_maps
>
>
> U of Saskatchewan
> http://libguides.usask.ca/content.php?pid=111791&sid=841825
>
>
> University at Buffalo Map Collection has a website with many guides.
> http://library.buffalo.edu/maps/
>
>
> Miami University (Oxford, Ohio)
> http://libguides.lib.muohio.edu/maps I manage another for Geographic
> Information Science
> http://libguides.lib.muohio.edu/content.php?pid=54782
>
>
> University of Utah's Marriott Library:
> http://campusguides.lib.utah.edu/content.php?pid=96645&search_terms=Ma
> ps
>
>
> University of Regina
> http://libguides.com/community.php?m=i&ref=www.libguides.com
>
> University of Alberta
> http://guides.library.ualberta.ca/maps
>
> Brigham Young University
> lib.byu.edu. Just click on "Maps & Gazetteers" on the lower right.
>
> Once you get the page with my mug shot, you have the options of
> clicking the various tabs across the top and searching for files and
> sites topically or geographically. You can also click the "A to Z
> Resources in Maps" tab and search alphabetically. I've been working on
> this guide bit by bit every day, so its look may change slightly from
> one day to the next. The tab with the most is probably Maps Online.
> You'll notice that some of the lists are Utah, Utah County, BYU, and
> LDS Church specific. But others are pertinent to all.
>
>
> University of Kentucky
> http://libguides.uky.edu/maps
>
> Western Michigan University
> http://libguides.wmich.edu/maps
>
>
> UW Milwaukee
> Milwaukee Neighborhood Maps
> http://guides.library.uwm.edu/content.php?pid=85854
>
>
> University of Kansas
> http://guides.lib.ku.edu/gis
>
>
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: LibGuides and map libraries
> Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 16:55:39 -0400
> From: Grabach, Kenneth A. Mr. <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
> <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
> Angie, thanks for asking this question.
>
> Early on in my library's foray into the Springshare LibGuides
> resource, I decided that a guide devoted to a material format and
> collection was needed. My colleagues were looking mostly at subjects
> related to the academic departments here. As a map librarian I
> recognized a constituency that was not limited to a single department
> or subject as far as materials classification is concerned.
>
> It is reassuring to see that others think the same way. I have not yet
> had time to take a look at the links to guides that others have shared.
> But I will be doing so. It would be interesting to get ideas of what
> works, why things were included, whatever. Maybe even discussion of
> what you like of others' guides that you might be tempted to try. I am
> always "under the hood" on mine and my other guides, tinkering around,
> or adding new items. One of the things I particularly like is to use a
> Books from the Catalog box to highlight newly received items. That, of
> course, entails regularly updating the listing, removing older
> materials and adding new things of potential interest.
>
> Again, I look forward to some discussion.
>
> Ken Grabach <[log in to unmask]>
> Maps Librarian Phone: 513-529-1726
> Miami University Libraries
> Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Angie Cope, American
> Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee
> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 10:33 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Libguides and map libraries
>
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone use Libguides to promote their collections and services
> specific to their map/gis library? Will you share a link to your guide
> with me?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Angie
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