This document discusses how Tri-County Technical College Library used LibGuides to improve communication between faculty and the library. It overhauled its website using LibGuides' templates and features. This allowed library staff to create subject guides for faculty and departments. It also used LibGuides to demonstrate library resources during interviews and give faculty sandbox accounts to explore the tools. The new site design helped promote library databases and services to faculty and better support their instructional needs.

1. Evolution of the Elevator Speech:
Using LibGuides to Springboard
Communication Between Faculty
and the Library
SCTCS Plugged In: Reboot, Redefine,
Reconnect, September 2012

2. LibGuides: Not just for subject
web pages
Marla K. Roberson
Library Director
Tri-County Technical College, SC
mrobers1@tctc.edu

3. TCTC Library web page 2007
We were overcome by events. Tri-County colors and logo were changing.
We purchased EZ Proxy to help us with our databases.

4. Review of Options
• Cost
• Flexibility of product
• Created for libraries
• American Library Association
annual meetings
• South Carolina Library
Association annual meetings
• Network with Librarians in
SC, NC, FL, GA, OK, TX,
OR, CA

5. Current incarnation of page
Utilized TCTC’s color palette
• Red
• Black
• Tan
New TCTC Logo

6. Faculty Use
• Get faculty to use our
website
• Add their subject content to
our site
• Utilize new or underused
databases
• Be proactive with the faculty
on what we have that will
make their instruction easier

7. Departmental Meetings and
Workshops Use
• IET Departmental Meeting
• A&S Departmental Meeting
• The Literary "Lady of the
Evening": The Graphic
Novel in Academia
• Computer Literacy

8. Interviews
• Professional Library staff
need to be familiar with
creating a web presence.
• Easy to give an interviewee a
stripped down password or
collaboration so that they
can create a LibGuide as
part of the interview
process.

9. Sandbox
A place to “play” and test your ideas.

10. Options
Use LibGuide options to their fullest.
Even add your own profile box that you
create from input information.

11. Thanks!
Any Questions?
Next Springshare session: • Michelle Rubino, GTC
LibCal, LibAnalytics, and LibAnswers in
the Library and Beyond. 3:45 to 4:45 In
Newberry A-Lab 1
• Michele Gregg, TCTC
• Marla K. Roberson, TCTC
• Evolution of the Elevator
Speech: Using LibGuides to
Springboard
Communication Between
Faculty and the Library.