We are now held strictly to LibGuides.  Printed bibliographies and Pathfinders are a thing of the past here at the University of Pittsburgh Libraries.  I still have the 50 I created during my 25 ½-year career here at the Frick Fine Arts Library on my hard-drive and saved to my flash drive.  I consult them sometimes for LibGuides.  We use the LibGuides in Library Instruction or Library Literacy, whatever we each call it these days.  They are extremely effective for that and also for sitting down with a student for in-depth reference.  I alwso have told the faculty how to link to them via their blackboard pages.

Ray Anne Lockard 

Hi,

I’m trying to find other libraries who create bibliographies/pathfinders in large numbers for their patrons and/or faculty/staff in order to find out how other institutions create, store, and organize their collections of bibliographies.  Are you using strictly online methods (like LibGuides) or do you create bibliographies to hand out to patrons? Or both?  And what tools do you use to create these?  EndNote, RefWorks, LibGuides, etc. 

Our library has thousands of bibliographies, because, very often, the reference questions we answer require lots of digging and the bibliographies save us hours and hours of time when the patron is standing in front of the desk or contacting us via e-mail; however, they also take lots of time to format so they look like a finished product and we are searching for a way to streamline that part of the process.   If your library has found a good solution, I’d like to hear from you! Thanks,

Regan Brumagen

Education and Outreach Reference Librarian

Rakow Research Library

Corning Museum of Glass

5 Museum Way, Corning, NY 14830

W - 607.974.8710

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