A quick scan of the conference program for the upcoming ACRL meeting in Seattle shows an impressive four sessions dedicated to LibGuides! Reinventing Research Guides: LibGuides at Two Academic Libraries Guides to Go: Using LibGuides to Deliver Information From Static to Dynamic: Using LibGuides to Create Discipline-Specific Research Guides at…
LibGuides / HowStuffWorks user webinar #6 – “Serving a New Generation: Exploring Web 2.0 and Beyond” – is scheduled for this Thursday at 3pm Eastern. For more information about attending this free webinar, please visit the events page at the Springshare Lounge.
Its time to wrap up 2008 – an exceptional year for the LibGuides community! In addition to the community totals, we have also included our 2007 totals and the percentage growth for each row, so you can see the progress we all made this year. 2008 Total 2007 Total…
Here are the most recent stats for the LibGuides community! Community Sites: 428 Librarian Accounts: 7201 Total Guides: 21,553 Total Pages: 134,521 Unique Visitors: 354,656 Page Views: 8.79 MM
The “Organizing Content for Success: Taxonomies for the Everyday User” webinar last week was a great success! For those of you that were unable to attend, the session video is available online at for no charge. Our 3rd webinar – “It’s all about the User: Practical Personas” – is scheduled for…
We are very happy to announce that with the addition of University of Illinois Chicago this afternoon, our LibGuides community has grown to 400 member libraries! Many of you will remember how excited we were to reach our 100th member library earlier this year, and since then our user base has…
Congratulations to the LibGuides community members – your unique visitors increased by 25% when compared to September and total page views were just a bit shy of 10 million! Community Sites: 396 Librarian Accounts: 6813 Total Guides: 21,189 Total Pages: 116,818 Unique Visitors: 337,795
Here are the most recent cummulative stats for the LibGuides community. Community Sites: 362 Librarian Accounts: 6218 Total Guides: 17,101 Total Pages: 112,669 Unique Visitors: 246,513 An important milestone was reached in the month of September – as a community, our members have now published over 100,000 pages of content…
LibGuides is now OpenSearch compliant! From the OpenSearch Wikipedia page: “OpenSearch is a collection of technologies that allow publishing of search results in a format suitable for syndication and aggregation. It is a way for websites and search engines to publish search results in a standard and accessible format.” What…
We have not highlighted a LibGuides related blog post in some time, but when we saw the post on the Gonzobrarian blog today, we couldn’t resist! One of the fruitions of my library’s attendance at a recent conference was to become more fully introduced to the increasingly popular service called…
