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LibGuides: Multipurpose Guides for your Institutions  

Some Examples, Lessons Learned, and Best Practices Revealed.
Last Updated: Sep 27, 2011 URL: http://libguides.nl.edu/Libras_Presentation052010 Print Guide

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LibGuides by Springshare

  • Launched April 2007
  • Content management tool that incorporates Web 2.0 applications.
  • Specifically designed for libraries
  • Customizable with institution's brand
  • Links to more than 30 social networking applications (Facebook, Twitter, Digg. etc).
  • Hosted remotely

As of April 2010

  • Total Librarian Accounts: 19,754
  • Total Guides: 85,260
 

A Little Background

  • NLU started using LibGuides in March 2008.
  • Used as a way to work around our Library Web site, which was in desperate need of a redesign…
  • Didn’t have Subject/Research Guides, so we basically started from scratch

 

Old Library Web site

Old WEb site

 

What our old Web Resources pages looked like:

CMB biz links

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Other SpringShare Products

  • CampusGuides
    CampusGuides extends the library's LibGuides platform to other groups in your campus/community.
  • LibAnswers
    A question and answer service with a library twist.
 

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Guide originally created by
Larissa K. Garcia,
May 2010 

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