Libguide Vision, Goals and Guidelines
Last update: November 17, 2014 (NK)
The following document was created by the 2013-14 Libguide Team as a way to define the creation and maintenance the Library Portal system.
The purpose and goals of the MMSD library portal system is to provide:
●the primary virtual tool by which the school’s library program and resources are shared and communicated with staff, students and families
●a uniform web delivery system for district and school e-resources
●a site-based web content management system for all district and school library programs
●teaching and learning tool for all with 24/7/365 access collaboration opportunities with teaching partners
●a collaboration tool by which all district library staff can share and reuse another library media specialist’s content
●data gathering for usage statistics
The following are guidelines to consider when creating content on your library portal:
●The school library portal should be created by the current school library media specialist. It is the responsibility of the current library media specialist that all portal content is compliant with the current district Acceptable Use Policy (AUP).
●If the current content is inherited from a previous librarian, the current librarian should make sure that all portal content is compliant with the current district AUP.
●It is strongly recommended that decisions made by the Libguide District Team around standardized portal content be adopted and delivered the same in all school portals. The current librarian owns and controls the non-standardized portion of their site portal.
●The primary focus of a library portal’s content should be the library program and resources. Content, communication and information on the site should be library centric with linked content focusing on collaboration partnerships with librarians. Secondary focus to be considered are links to other school or classroom content. All portal content or linked content is at the discretion of the current library media specialist, with the exception of the uniform standardized content decided by the district Libguide Team.
●Individual classroom and/or other division web content should be hosted by other web content management systems (ie Google site, a Blog or link to a Google Doc). It is the responsibility that the original author of the web content is compliant with the district Acceptable Use Policy. This content may be linked to a library portal at the discretion of the library media specialist.
●Editing rights to a library portal page should be carefully considered so that the librarian has the ultimate control of the page. These rights are at the discretion of the library media specialist.
●Appropriate collaborations with library media specialist to create content could include research guides, curricular connections, text collections, linking to teacher curricular requests, instructional technology tools and resources. The collaboration and content would be at the discretion of the library media specialist.
The following are guidelines to consider when maintaining your library portal:
●It is the responsibility of the current library media specialist that all links are working and that all content is accurate and reasonably current.
●It is the responsibility of the current librarian to evaluate any linked content from other authors to check for validity, appropriateness and AUP compliance. The current librarian has the responsibility to contact the original author, if possible, to change or remove a link from their portal. All links on the portal are at the discretion of the current library media specialist.
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