Since my last blog post, I have become more familiar with
the desk and have begun to answer questions that are more in depth and make use
of the reference skills that I have been learning. This week, I have even started working the
desk by myself! I was a little nervous
at first, but once I had my first patron, I realized that I felt confident in
what I had learned in my training and I was able to help!
Aside from familiarizing myself with the desk, I have
started working on a project which has me redesigning the History Libguides
page. I researched into the libguides of
other schools to get a sense of how different schools were organizing their
databases in the most efficient, user-friendly manner. After getting a sense of what works and what
did not, I have started designing a new page, incorporating what I have learned
from my research.
In organizing this new page, I have discovered that there
are so many amazing databases that Musselman library subscribes to that not
many students know about or can easily find.
I am attempting to design the new page so that the students doing
historical research will have easy access to these numerous databases, in the
hopes that they find the best information we can offer. It was a bit of a struggle to categorize the
variety of databases so that it is clear to researchers where to find the
information they need. Some of the new
categories will include searching by time period or by region.
Hopefully soon the page will be ready to be
tested by students or other librarians so that we can move forward with the
redesign!
--Megan
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