What’s the key to successful library research? Sure, you can use Google, Bing, Safari, or Wikipedia to find information. But for successful research, nobody knows better than a librarian where to find the facts, statistics, arguments, and evidence that you didn’t even know existed.
Librarians are information gurus, and the LBCC Library’s latest innovation, LibGuides, promises to provide not just a medium for alerting the library’s customers to important information resources, but also a way to continue the dialogue, and to deliver much of the information directly to the student and faculty desktop.
The LibGuides approach to enabling library research:
• Has been embraced by over 1500 libraries in 25 countries
• Uses the latest web 2.0 technologies
• Enables content to be reused and shared within and across institutions
• Can be used to create multimedia guides that share knowledge and information and promote library resources to the campus community
• Is available on Facebook and can be integrated with Twitter to connect with customers wherever they are
• Can distribute content into other websites, blogs and courseware systems
• Allows embedding of videos, RSS, and podcasts
LBCC librarians have compiled and published “subject guides” for as long as the library existed, first as paper handouts, and more recently on the web are the basis for LibGuides content, but now the librarians have access to publishing tools that will take them to the next level, benefiting the entire LBCC campus community.
See examples of the library’s first LibGuides publications, including guides for Statistics, Anthropology at http://lbcc.libguides.com/ and look for others, as the transition to LibGuides continues throughout the coming months.
For more information about LibGuides, contact Dena Laney.
Library Update #76
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