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Presentation: Hot Topics: LibGuides - Part 1: What are/is LibGuides?

Part 1 of an Ask A Librarian webinar hosted by Tampa Bay Library Consortium on October 4, 2011

LibGuides are webpages & websites at over 2,500 libraries

LibGuides Community Site
Search and explore 194,681 guides by 36,428 librarians at 2510 libraries worldwide!
Introduction to LibGuides (Springshare)
Best of! (Springshare)
"showcases some of the best of what the LibGuides community has to offer."

An online system for creating webpages - LibGuides...

is an annual subscription service
is remotely hosted, but locally branded
does not require special software
does not require HTML knowledge to use...(but)
organizes resources into boxes within 1, 2, or 3 columns -- visually digestible chunks
uses tabs & subtabs to group pages about a topic together
adds ezproxy to links by checking a box
makes reusing content easy