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Creating web guides for a library portal

Creating web guides for a library portal. Jackie Wickham – Intute jacqueline.wickham@nottingham.ac.uk Martin Gill – University of Leeds m.r.gill@leeds.ac.uk. Introduction.

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Creating web guides for a library portal

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  1. Creating web guides for a library portal Jackie Wickham – Intute jacqueline.wickham@nottingham.ac.uk Martin Gill – University of Leeds m.r.gill@leeds.ac.uk

  2. Introduction Case Study – how the University of Leeds integrated Intute resources and services to create its subject guides to electronic resources.

  3. Presentation Outline • What is Intute • Intute’s Integration services • Background to Case Study • Implemetation • Results and benefits

  4. What is Intute • Intute is a national Internet service guiding you to useful Web resources for education and research. • It offers an online catalogue and interactive subject tutorials. • It is a free service aimed at the UK’s higher and further education sectors and is relevant to students, lecturers, researchers and teachers. • Intute was formerly known as the Resource Discovery Network (RDN). • Funded nationally by the JISC

  5. Network of specialists Four subject groups comprise Intute: • Arts and Humanities • Health and Life Sciences • Science, Engineering and Technology • Social Sciences • Hand selected, quality assured content – Best of the Web

  6. The big headache! • Too many resources on Net • Keeping up to date with new ones • Link checking existing content • Assuring quality of resources

  7. How Intute can help Create your reading lists from Intute resources Put Intute search box on your library Web page, eg. for Intute: Social Science resources List latest resources added to Intute, on your library Webpage

  8. Integrate the Intute Search Box

  9. Search results

  10. RSS feeds

  11. Creating customised e-resource lists Use MyIntute to • Create your own account • Save records • Tag records with your own keywords • Export data into your web pages • Get automatic updates • Choose from Intute and add your own resources

  12. Customised e-resource lists A link to a resource not in Intute but added by the user in MyIntute. Links imported into blog from MyIntute using Javascript

  13. Leeds in the mid 1990’s • Pre Google • Yahoo was a directory site • Subject gateways in their infancy • Developed a ROADS database to list subject databases and websites • Broken down to a subject or even module level

  14. 2006 • Server needed replacement • Software no longer supported • Database indexes full • Workload issues of maintaining links • Databases now integrated into our catalogue • Wanted to avoid flat webpages of links • Approached RDN as they were re-launching as Intute for advice

  15. Pilot Project • To use MyIntute to embed Intute records in our website • Sample subjects: Education, Law, Engineering, Dentistry, East Asian Studies • Looked at: • Workload • Availability of Intute records • Technical integration

  16. Project results • Workload • MyIntute very quick and easy to use • Availability of records • Most subjects had few problems • Searching Intute found us better websites in many cases • Some issues of scope, some language issues • Technical integration • Accessibility issues

  17. Intute Search Box Intute RSS Feeds Records from Intute catalogue

  18. Cost savings (estimated) • No server replacement (£2k) • No software purchased (£10-20k) • Minimal systems development (£10k) • No link checking, no content checking

  19. Working with Intute • Very helpful and flexible • Accessibility issues addressed • Local resources – MyNonIntute records

  20. 2007 • MyIntute rolled out to all subjects • Replaced our general website listings • ROADS server decommissioned

  21. Questions?

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