[OPLINLIST] It's time to give up

[SWON Info]

*When a student visits your LibGuides page, how quickly can they find 
what they’re looking for?* The best way to find out is to watch them 
work. Give them a task like, “Find an article about separation anxiety 
in children.”

You’ve given them the search, but since you didn’t tell them to look in 
a database, will they know that’s where they should look? And if they 
know they should look in a database, can they find that link?

*Welcome to the student brain, which in this regard is just like yours.* 
Head to the website of an unfamiliar library and you too would be 
hunting for the place to run a database search. Only you’re at an 
advantage: you know the lingo libraries use.

You don’t need a big neon sign pointing to database links, since you 
know very well where they are. But if that’s the primary reason students 
visit your main LibGuides page, links or directions to the databases 
should probably be the most prominent links on the page.

It’s a real challenge to create web pages that work for your patrons. If 
you’re using LibGuides, come to our LibGuides Level-Up Lab, October 15, 
and learn how to use its features to help your students. Sign up today: 
http://tiny.cc/libguides-lab

Nathan Swartzendruber, SWON Technology Educator

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    OKI Children’s Literature Conference

The Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana Children’s Literature Conference is 
coming to Thomas More College in Crestview Hills, Kentucky, on Saturday, 
November 2. Register before October 1st to catch their Early Bird 
discount. For information on speakers, workshops, and more, head to the 
conference website: http://oki.nku.edu/

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Connect to SWON online: Website <http://www.swonlibraries.org/> : 
Calendar <http://oh.evanced.info/swon/lib/eventcalendar.asp> : Facebook 
<https://www.facebook.com/SWONLibraries?sk=wall> : Twitter 
<http://twitter.com/swonlibraries>
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Calendar excerpts from the next two weeks. (Please register for online 
classes at least two days before they take place.)

  * *Level-Up Lab: LinkedIn
    <http://oh.evanced.info/swon/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=620>* -
    (9/12/2013) - SWON Conference Room
  * *Time Management Tune-Up
    <http://oh.evanced.info/swon/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=604>* -
    (9/12/2013) - Online
  * *Library Directors & Personnel Directors (SIG) Meeting
    <http://oh.evanced.info/swon/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=636>* -
    (9/13/2013) - SWON Conference Room
  * *Delegating: When, How, and To Whom?
    <http://oh.evanced.info/swon/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=605>* -
    (9/17/2013) - Online
  * *Technical Services (SIG) Meeting
    <http://oh.evanced.info/swon/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=634>* -
    (9/18/2013) - Boone County Public Library, Main Branch
  * *Writing for the Library Website
    <http://oh.evanced.info/swon/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=606>* -
    (9/19/2013) - Online
  * *Academic Retention Series: Ensuring Happy Student Library Workers
    <http://oh.evanced.info/swon/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=632>* -
    (9/23/2013) - Gateway College in Edgewood, KY
  * *What You Don’t Know about Body Language
    <http://oh.evanced.info/swon/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=607>* -
    (9/24/2013) - Online


SWON Libraries - http://www.swonlibraries.org
10250 Alliance Road, Suite 225
Blue Ash, OH 45242
phone (513) 751-4422 - fax (513) 751-0463
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