There are several ideas that I want to try to implement for our website in the near future. The first of these is to transfer our existing guides into LibGuide format. Once I’ve done so, I can replace our current subject guide page with the LibGuides homepage we have. Any new guides will be automatically added to this LibGuides homepage. The other benefit of this switch, besides having the automatic update, will be that our new banner will appear here, getting us closer to a more cohesive look on our website.
Another idea, which I got from the University of Washington libraries, is to use Vodpod to collect all of our videos and podcasts in one place. According to the librarians at UW, you can get an ad-free account for $30 a year, which includes the ability to add branding. We could pay the $30, put our banner at the top, change the color scheme and have a ready-made multi-media page for our site. Of course, we may be able to use the SFCC streaming server without paying any extra money. That would mean maintaining the page ourselves, but that would also be a good thing, if more difficult.
