NEIT2011+OpenSpace4+M

Promoting Online Content - How do you provide access and promote databases, e-books, etc.

Portal page for Library on the school's web site -- available to students, teachers, parents (Friends Academy)
 * Library button is on main menu
 * Portal pages are password protected - great for database passwords
 * Contains links to catalog, link to library blog, database info & links, reading lists

Blackboard page (course management software) for library - used for database links and passwords (Brunswick School)

Moodle page for library for each grade in Upper School - has research help, catalog link and database password info (Chapin School)

Library page on the school's web site (Finalsite) but also want to put on Blackboard (School of the Holy Child)
 * has RSS feed to SLJ list of adult books for teens

Use LibGuides to promote resources (Berkley Carroll)
 * Requires subscription
 * Create LibGuide for each research project - you can create tabs for books, databases, websites
 * Each LibGuide has unique URL which can be given to teachers, emailed to students, etc.
 * LibGuide not password-protected

Library Web Page (Columbia Grammar)
 * Linked to school website but created from scratch by library
 * Has shelfari (free widget from Amazon)
 * Links to library blog, catalog, lots of photos,
 * Will be password protected
 * Using QR code to take students to library page

Asides: EasyBib vs. NoodleTools Uses of Questia (Friends Academy) Using Wordpress for library blog (Columbia Grammar) A "Library Minute" at every faculty meeting to promote resources (or "1 cool thing you should know") (Friends Academy)