Today I ran my semi-irregular link check of all our LibGuides. The result is a report which is basically a list of web pages and all the links on each page that don’t work for whatever reason. Please take some time to check your pages and see if any of your links are dead. Because of how LibGuides is organized, you will need to find your pages based on the “PID” (page ID) for each guide. To make a quick list of your PIDs, just open each of your Guides in turn and write down the PID that shows up in the URL for each one. Every tab within your Guide will have that same PID.
The report is in alphanumerical order, so you should be able to scroll down to each of your PIDs and check for dead links. If your PID is not listed, there are currently no broken links in that Guide.
Notes
- Links to IM programs that exist on your profile will show up as 404 File Not Found, but you may ignore them.
- Links that are 503 temporarily overloaded may also be ignored–what you’re interested in is links that are broken.
- “Forbidden request” links are probably okay as well.
- You may find an occasional image listed in your link report. If your images are displaying fine, you may ignore these.
- The page listed with just a PID and no SID is the main page of your Guide. The SIDs refer to the different tabs on your Guide.
- You may also choose to go through your LibGuide pages and manually check each link, if you find that easier. 🙂
The report is in html format and can be found on BUFiles under the Web & Multimedia folder.
Thanks.
Scott
I am pleased to have found out that Information Resources is working on a Guest Wireless system that will allow anyone who comes on campus to get online wirelessly and without any hassle.
Until that system is purchased and implemented, we now have a login to provide people who come to the library from off campus and want to use their own laptops instead of one of our lab computers. People like this may be parents of students or people visiting the campus for other reasons, such as waiting for their children who are rehearsing with the Indianapolis Children’s Choir or that kind of thing.
Login: DawgLib
Pswd: butler08!
Eventually, there will be a system in place for us to change this password whenever we need, which may be weekly or biweekly or maybe after every time we give it out to someone. For now, we will stick with this one password. This information will be kept at the Reference Desk as well as on this blog.
More is needed before people can login, though. To connect to wireless, they’ll have to go through the same process that students do: http://www.butler.edu/ir/cmsExternalDocuments/xp_wireless.pdf and then go to http://NetReg.butler.edu and register. This last site scans their computer and registers their computer’s ID number on our system, which is what allows their computer to “talk” on the Butler network. Once they’ve done these things, they’ll be able to use the login and password we give them and get online.
Scott
As of this afternoon, all of the publicly accessible computers in Irwin Library (upstairs, downstairs, Room 119, and all around the first floor) are running Windows XP and have the updated standard Library Lab image on them. I’m still checking on the Science Library.
This means all the computers have the same functionality, all are set up to print to IL_120_X, all can unzip files right from My Computer, all can burn CDs easily, and all have Write-N-Cite, Adobe Photoshop, Firefox, and all the other programs that the other lab computers have.
Even the computer with the scanner has been updated to Windows XP and the scanner reinstalled. Because of the new operating system, the process of scanning is slightly different from before. I have printed out new instructions and taped them to the scanner lid. The process is actually much more straightforward now and harder to mess up. 🙂 Choices III is NOT on this computer at the moment, but I’m told we’re renewing our license and should be getting a new version of the program (and new data) sometime this summer.
The Reference Desk computer is also running Windows XP, so people working there can more easily support the public computers.
Please let me know if you find (or hear about) any public computer that is not working right.
Thanks.
Scott
Here’s the logon info for anyone who (like me) misplaced Lewis’s email and couldn’t get in. 🙂
Title Analysis System (WorldCat Collection Analysis)
http://firstsearch.oclc.org
User Name –
100-152-241
Password – butleru
The “Collection Analysis” tab is the fourth one in.
Here are some statistics regarding student usage of the Tutorial Quizzes from within Blackboard:
Plagiarism Quiz: Average score 8.86 (out of 10), 339 students took the quiz 544 times
Library Basics Quiz: Average score 9.03 (out of 10), 113 students took the quiz 125 times
Music Majors Quiz: Average score 7.53 (out of 10), 29 students took the quiz 38 times
Faculty Requesting Quiz Scores: 18 classes total
13 full classes took the Plagiarism Quiz in Fall 2007
5 full classes took the Plagiarism Quiz in Spring 2008
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