Monday, February 8, 2010

Libguides

This is a slight aside from my usual ramblings about information literacy, but my library is considering adopting Libguides. Right now, we make a static webpage for each class we see (here's one of mine for this semester), to the tune of about 1000 webpages. In an attempt to lessen our workload, increase our flexibility (right now, we're unable to edit pages unless we're at our work computers), and take up less server space, we decided to take a look at Libguides. Of course, the coolest thing about Libguides is the ability to pull in RSS feeds, tag stuff, and create polls. All this sounds great, though the prospect of migrating all these pages makes my head spin a bit. Luckily (?), our whole library website will be moving to a CMS soon, so it's not a matter of moving vs. not moving, but more a matter of where we'll be moving. Either way, sounds like a fun summer project!

1 comment:

  1. Ooo, I'm jealous! I've heard a lot about LibGuides and would love to try them out. Alas, my library doesn't use them. You'll have to keep us posted on how it goes!

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