Converting an Intranet Site to the Cloud: Using CampusGuides to Refresh a Library Portal

Abstract

After a major redesign project in 2002, Mayo Clinic Libraries' heavily used intranet portal remained largely static. Library staff were unable to make substantive design changes or introduce tools that would make the content more dynamic. CampusGuides offered a practical, user-friendly, web-based solution to add dynamic content to the library site. A task force was formed both to establish design and style guidelines that would integrate with the library site and to plan the conversion of content to CampusGuides. Converting intranet site content to CampusGuides gave the task force the opportunity to examine, re-imagine, and revitalize site content.

KEYWORDS:

• CampusGuides
• cloud
• content management system
• LibGuides
• library portal
• online guides
• pathfinders
• subject guides

Acknowledgments

This article is based on the contributed paper: “Converting an Intranet Site into the Cloud: Using LibGuides to Refresh a Library Portal,” by M. L. Rethlefsen, L. Osterhaus, A. Farrell, K. Larsen, D. Gerberi, V. Gajic-Zoric, and W. Elkharwily, presented at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, May 17, 2011.