Murdoch University Library

Murdoch University Library

Putting the library in your space

Helen Bronleigh

Sue Dowling

Joanne Richards

Kathryn Greenhill

http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au

Why? How? What?

Next?

Why?

How?

How?

• Destination by many paths

• Looking at what others are doing

• Taking staff along with us

What are we doing?

1. What are they saying?

Search library resources from your browser toolbar

2. LibX Toolbar

Off Campus Access

3. Google Gadget

What have others done?

Brainstorming!

Our Google Gadget

Telling our users

4. Add This

What’s Next?

Zotero

•Zotero is a free, Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. •Produced by Center for History and New Media at George Mason University

Libx for IE

• Not yet available

• 60-70% of our users still using IE – how do we include them?

Mobile Web

• What are people using mobile devices for?

• What type of information do we need to make available?

More Gadgetry?

Evaluation

• Feedback

• Statistics•Looking at Google Analytics•Other statistics

•More opportunities for staff development

Questions?

Acknowledgements

• Front Door.[Slide 2] Uploaded on January 23, 2007 by Cristiano Betta http://www.flickr.com/photos/cristiano_betta/366892415/. Accessed 25/11/08

• Google Gadgets [Slide 14]. http://www.google.com. Accessed 21/11/08• Add This [Slides 22, 23]. http://www.addthis.com/. Accessed 18/11/08 • OpenSocial image [Slide 28]. http://www.google.com. Accessed 23/9/08• Facebook graphic. [Slide 28] http://www.facebook.com. Accessed 23/9/08