05-19-2020, 01:19 PM
These are the activities for colleges to complete by Wednesday, May 27:
· Ensure that your LibAnswers policy page is updated
· Verify that your staff are comfortable on the new system
· Review your Web presence to identify the location of all QuestionPoint/LRC Live links and chat widgets in advance of cutover to LibAnswers:
o College Web pages
o LibGuides
o Electronic handouts or exercises
o Canvas templates
o Quicksearch landing page
o Local e-resource integrations
· Identify and finish testing the LibAnswers chat widget(s) that you intend to use
· For those college libraries that do not control their website:
§ Provide info on website changes to college IT (or other appropriate department)
§ Provide go-live schedule to college IT
§ Make sure IT understands and agrees to make changes during the cutover window (After 5 p.m. on Thursday, 5/28 and before 9 a.m. on Friday, 5/29).
· Ensure that your LibAnswers policy page is updated
· Verify that your staff are comfortable on the new system
· Review your Web presence to identify the location of all QuestionPoint/LRC Live links and chat widgets in advance of cutover to LibAnswers:
o College Web pages
o LibGuides
o Electronic handouts or exercises
o Canvas templates
o Quicksearch landing page
o Local e-resource integrations
· Identify and finish testing the LibAnswers chat widget(s) that you intend to use
· For those college libraries that do not control their website:
§ Provide info on website changes to college IT (or other appropriate department)
§ Provide go-live schedule to college IT
§ Make sure IT understands and agrees to make changes during the cutover window (After 5 p.m. on Thursday, 5/28 and before 9 a.m. on Friday, 5/29).
Tara Cassidy
Director of Library Services
Virginia's Community Colleges - System Office
Director of Library Services
Virginia's Community Colleges - System Office

