LibGuides 2 Implementation Group: 7/8/2015

• 20 min: LibGuides 2 home page
• 10 min: General Research Tools box
• 10 min: Known issues list
• 10 min: Remaining Tasks

Decisions:

• Remove the "Alphabetical" / "Most popular" pull-down from the home page
• Insert some explanatory text as to what the guides are and what they're for into the home page
• Ask Emily what to call "Using Sources"
• Rename General Research Tools' "Citation Management" to "Citation Tools", make change in LibGuide as well
• Get all databases to open in a new tab/window

Discussion:

Home page

• Can we override the home page and insert the guide list as a widget?
  • No, the guide list isn't a widget.
• Pull-down for "Alphabetical" / "Most popular":  Get rid of it
• Some explanatory text about what the guides are and what they're for?
  • "Find research guides created by Yale University Library Staff.  Browse through the categories below."  -- from Cornell University
• Keep Databases A-Z

General Research Tools

• "Using Sources" -- call it Citing and Using Sources?
  • Emily wants it for undergraduates
  • Contact Emily and find out what she'd like to call it from an undergraduate perspective
• "Citation Management" guide is called "Citation Tools" in the YUL header "Services" pull-down main menu
  • Should the name of the guide and the General Research Tools box link change?
  • Yes.

Known issues

• Would prefer that Databases open in a new tab