Add content to your guides from anywhere on the web. Whenever you find a useful resource just click the "Post to LibGuides" button on your browser and - voilà - the link appears on your LibGuide. In addition, LibGuides can be integrated into the LibX Browser Toolbar.
Users can receive email alerts whenever new content is published (by tags/keywords, or by authors). Email alerts enable patrons to stay on top of new content, while giving libraries another means of connecting with their customers.
Use any guide in your system (or pick from 67,000+ guides in the community) as a template when creating a new guide. Share content boxes and resources across guides, and collaborate with other librarians. LibGuides has many content management and sharing features built right in.
LibGuides supports tagging, making it easier for patrons to find information. In addition, guides can be associated with any number of librarian-defined Subject categories.
Effortlessly embed multimedia objects inside your guides - videos, RSS feeds, podcasts, etc. LibGuides makes it easy to spice up your guides with multimedia to make them more useful and more attractive!
LibGuides provides full usage statistics for your guides. You can even track the usage of individual links & documents within your guides and embed external statistics-gathering scripts (e.g. Google Analytics).
The system automatically checks for broken links a few times per month, and creates an actionable broken links report. This enables you to effortlessly maintain content in your guides, ensuring links are up to date.
With a variety of options available, LibGuides enables you to fully customize the look-and-feel of your system. You can even replace the default stylesheet with your own, for complete control over your site's appearance.
LibGuides widgets enable you to embed your LibGuides content into any webpage, blog, courseware page, etc. You can select which guides you want to feature on your widget, and it will update automatically whenever there is new content. We also have a full set of APIs to distribute your library guides to other websites.
You can post guide news/updates on Twitter, and we have three different apps to make your LibGuides content available in Facebook. This increased exposure on popular social networking sites leads to increased use of your library content and services.
You can embed any web chat or instant message clients inside your guides (LibraryH3lp, Meebo, etc.) so patrons can reach out to you if they need help while doing their research. Also, every librarian has a full profile page which lists all their content, and their contact information. They also have a mini profile box on every guide they create.
Users can share their favorite LibGuides on any social bookmarking site, including Facebook, Digg, Delicious, etc. They can also email links to guides to friends. On the admin side, librarians can easily embed their delicious tag clouds and links inside their guides.