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Proposal
Make the three research guides links on our home page (screenshot) into one link that goes to one gateway page for course, subject, and format guides. To do this we need to do three things:

1. Name the link
Problem of naming: what do we call the link? suggestions have included:

• Research guides by class & subject
• Class web pages and research guides
• Class web pages and subject guides
• Library guides by class & subject
• Guides by course & subject
• LibGuides

2. Delete the Research Guides CMS page
We have found new homes for most of the information that is on this page (http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page39965.html)

• Class web pages – will have list of current on new gateway page; link to older
• How to use guides – migrating to Tutorials page, which will have a link on new gateway page under Formats
• Library basics – also migrating to Tutorials page
• Manuscript collections – list in their own box on the new gateway page
• Topic – changing to subject listing like we have for the databases

That leaves the Formats page: http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page39828.html, which we have a plan for. This page is referred to below as 39828.

3. Make the new gateway page
Here is the mockup of the new gateway page: http://libguides.bgsu.edu/aecontent.php?pid=80040. Class pages from the current semester will feed in from the Course Guides LibGuide. Subject guides will collate beneath top-level headings listed, as in the databases-by-subject pages. Other guides are linked in the “Formats” box.

Each ACB has its own link for collection guides by format in this box:

• BCPL: called “Popular Culture Collections” – goes to http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/page38347.html
• CRC: called “Curriculum Collections” – goes to http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/crc/page40028.html
• Music: called Music & Sound Recordings” – goes to http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/music/page37959.html
• CAC: called “Archival Collections” – goes to http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/cac/index.html

Formats Page
We propose to break this page apart so its contents are either linked from the Formats box on the new gateway page or deleted. The below accounts for every link on 39828. Please look at the section for your area. If the link into your collection in the Formats box on the new gateway page does not provide adequate access to all of the links for your collection formats from 39828, is there a way you can make adjustments to accommodate those guides from somewhere on your site so we no longer need to maintain 39828?

BPCL
Most of the BPCL formats on 39828 are also linked here:
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/page38347.html
(referred to below as 38347). 38347 is now the page linked from the Formats box on the new gateway page. 38347 includes the following links from 39828:

Alternative/Underground Press collections
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/page38839.html

Bridge Tally Cards
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/page49844.html

Calendars
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/page38718.html

Catalogs
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/page48038.html

Comic Books
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/page38347.html#comics

Fanzines, Popular Culture
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/page38356.html

Greeting Cards
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/page43163.html

Little Blue Books
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/page39175.html

Little Leather Library
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/page48172.html

Mail-order catalogs
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/page48038.html

Personal Growth Leaflets
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/page48047.html

Pin-Back Buttons
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/page42761.html

Postcards
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/page50755.html

Realia
http://maurice.bgsu.edu/record=b2651639

Trading Cards, Non-Sport
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/page54647.html – “not found”
should be: http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/page53647.html

Trading Cards, Sport
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/page52806.html

Underground Press Publications
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/page38839.html

Five formats from 39828 are listed on 38347 but with different links than on 39828

***Movie Posters – on 38347 under “Posters” and with link: http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/page53645.html
On 39828 as:
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/page39123.html
(Popular Entertainment Collections page)

***Movie Press Kits – on 38347 as “motion picture press kits” with link to catalog.
On 39828 as:
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/page39123.html
(Popular Entertainment Collections page)

***Posters – listed on 38347 unlinked with description.
On 39828 as:
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/page39123.html
(Popular Entertainment Collections)

***Press Kits – on 38347 as “motion picture press kits” with link to catalog.
On 39828 as:
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/page39123.html
(Popular Entertainment Collections)

***Vertical Files – on 38347 with link to catalog.
On 39828 as:
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page54193.html

Two formats from 39828 are not listed on 38347 (add there?)

***Advertisements (movies, TV, etc.)
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/page39123.html
(Popular Entertainment Collections page)

***Periodicals (BCPL)
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/page38460.html

Music
Here are the Music links from 39828:

CDs (music)
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/music/page37826.html

Fanzines, Music
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/music/page37959.html#Fanzines

Music Theses
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page68663.html#musictheses

Recital Tapes
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page68663.html#recitaltapes

Recordings
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/music/page37793.html

Record Sleeves
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/music/page37959.html#Sleeves

Scores, Musical
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/music/page37827.html

Sheet Music
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page68663.html#sheetmusic

Sound Recordings
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/music/page37793.html

Vertical Files
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page54193.html

Here is the “Music & Sound Recordings” formats link on the new gateway page:
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/music/page37959.html
Is there a better page to link there? Can the information from the links above be incorporated here or elsewhere into the Music site?

CRC
Here are the CRC links from 39828:

Computer Software – candidate for deletion
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page68663.html#software

Curriculum Guides/Courses of Study
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page68663.html#curicguides

Globes – candidate for deletion
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page68663.html#globes

Pictures
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page68663.html#pictures

Puppets
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page68663.html#puppets

Teaching Aids
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page68663.html#teachingaids

Videodiscs
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page68663.html#videodisc

Here is the “Curriculum Resources” formats link on the new gateway page :
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/crc/page40028.html
Is there a better page to link there? Can the information from the links above be incorporated into this page or elsewhere on the CRC site?

CAC
Here are the CAC links from 39828:

Government Records, Local
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/cac/lr/page38418.html

Marine Architecture Drawings
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/cac/page39533.html

Navigational Charts
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/cac/ms/page41835.html

Newspapers, Local
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/cac/page40400.html

Pamphlets
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page68663.html#pamphlets

Photographs
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page68663.html#photographs

University Archives
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/cac/page40001.html

Here is the “Archival Collections” formats link on the new gateway page:
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/cac/index.html
Is there a better page to link there? Is the information in the links above represented in the CAC site?

Pages moved to formats
The following pages from 39828 have been listed separately in the Formats box on the new gateway page:

Dissertations & Theses
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page41674.html
fold in the information from Dissertations, BGSU: http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page41994.html

Government Documents
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/govdocs/page42432.html

Microformats (film, fiche, etc.)
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page45209.html

Videos (both streaming and physical)
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page68663.html#video

Other
The following link from 39828 got its own box on the new gateway page:

Manuscripts
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page42575.html

Links from 39828 I don’t know what to do with:

Finding Aids – fold into “Guides to Manuscripts” box?
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page54173.html

Maps
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page68663.html#maps

Delete
I feel that these links from 39828 do not need new homes:

Almanacs
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page68663.html#almanacs

Archives
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page54180.html

Articles
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page68663.html#articles

Assessment instruments
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page68663.html#assessment

Atlases
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page68663.html#atlasses

Books: see BGSU Libraries Catalog

CD Roms
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page68663.html#cd-roms

College Catalogs
http://maurice.bgsu.edu/record=e1000251 – “no such record”

Computer software
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page68663.html#software
(CRC mentioned here)

Databases: goes to databases-by-subject landing page

Dictionaries
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page68663.html#dictionaries

Electronic books: see BGSU Libraries Catalog

Electronic journals
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page68663.html#ejournal

Encyclopedias
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page68663.html#encyclopedia

Films
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page68663.html#films

Gazeteers
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page68663.html#gazeteers

Globes
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page68663.html#globes
(CRC mentioned here)

Indexes
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page68663.html#indexes

Journals, Magazines, Periodicals, Serials
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page68663.html#serials

Maps
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page68663.html#maps

Magazines
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page68663.html#serials

Newspapers
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page68663.html#newspapers

Periodicals
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page68663.html#serials

Photocopiers
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/duphbind.html#copying

Reference Books
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page68663.html#refbooks

Reference Materials
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/additional/refbook.html

Reserve Materials
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/circ/reserve.html

Serials
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/assistance/page68663.html#serials

Theses – became Dissertations & Theses and moved to Formats box

Theses, BGSU – same as Dissertations, BGSU: to be combined with Dissertations & Theses in Formats

Videos, VHS & DVD – part of Videos in Formats

Videotapes – part of Videos in Formats

Next steps:

1. Please take a look at the link to formats guides for your area that is listed in section 3 above. Is it the page you would choose to get people to the guides to your collections by format? If not, please suggest an alternate link.
2. Please take a look at the links from 39828 listed for your area. Are these pages or the information in them linked from your site in such a way that it is no longer necessary to use 39828 to get to that information? Let me know if that is not the case.
3. Please look at the links from 39828 that I have suggested are no longer needed. Do you agree?

Please respond by 12/30 if you can. We can also arrange to meet in person (PIC, Instruction folks and ACB folks) if there are concerns about moving forward.

Thanks!

Amy