Library Guides Nov 23, 2015 to December 4, 2015

With Library Guides also known as Program Guides, I went back to my love of Braille and expanded on it. This assignment was hard, largely due to the difficulty of finding proper databases, books, and people to follow on social media. Other components of library guides are websites. Once I learned your way around the site it became rather intuitive but I found it difficult getting started despite the video tutorial and the presenters.

Databases were a problem as not too many Braille based databases are out there that I could find. In order to get my required amount of databases I ended up falling back on educational databases. I also had to learn how to make my own database feed as only the educational ones were already on the site.

Books were difficult because, books for people with a visual impairment are not available to the general public. I was able to receive help with this part by R**** letting me browse through the Saskatoon Public School Board’s collection of Braille related books and items. That was fun. However, even when I had taken pictures of the title page and the copyright page, so that I could type them up later, many of the books did not have an ISBN, I could not find an annotation or summary online, or even other standard/ necessary information.

For people on social media, I ended up just following Braille related groups such as the CNIB, Braille Literacy and Braille Works as I could not find actual people to follow.

Some of the other things that Libguides taught me was how to embed a video, a RSS feed, or a twitter feed. I also learned how to insert a photo, yet I wasn’t able to figure out how to make my pictures a uniform size.

The website component I found to be the easiest part to do. Most of the sites are very text heavy and not very visually appealing. This makes sense for the visually impaired population who would be primarily using these sites.

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