Tiffany was nice enough to send us an email this week, showing an innovative way that DePauw University has expanded their LibGuides system beyond subject-based research. She describes the project focus as follows… “While we value our role in supporting curricular and research needs, academic librarians should also support their students’…
We are thrilled to introduce a new chapter in the LibGuides (r)evolution – LibGuides community site, at http://community.libguides.com. You can also access this site by clicking on the “Community” tab on the LibGuides admin screen. The community site makes it possible to search guides of all our member institutions. Imagine the possibilities…
We wanted to take a moment to highlight two of our newest community members, and the innovative ways they are using LibGuides to provide more than just subject-guides. Scottsdale Community College has both a “traditional” LibGuides system, as well as a second site which they are using as their library…
Widgets are the unsung heroes of LibGuides. They are a great way to embed your LibGuides into blogs, course management systems, social networks, etc. We’ve made an enhancement to the statistics package in LibGuides to enable you to track the number of visits to your guides from widgets. In other words, when…
We recently came across a post from Sara at the world famous Tactless Librarian blog, that presents an interesting use for LibGuides. Sara has been creating research guides for course-specific instruction sessions held at the library. These “class shortcut pages” contain all the information presented during the instruction session, including reference tools, polls,…
Thanks to a recent software update from Mr. Jobs and the rest of the brilliant minds at Apple, iPhone users are now able to add custom icons to their homescreen. To add a nice and shiny LibGuides icon to your nice and shiny iPhone, follow these simple steps: 1) Open…
Librarian “Mick” is an avid LibGuides user of North Eastern Illinois University’s LibGuides. He has put together several great LibGuides-related posts on his blog. One post reveals his (excellent and very timely) thoughts about what Pathfinders 2.0 should look like – check it out at “LibGuides and my Philosophy of Pathfinders 2.0” In addition, Mick has…
