At the suggestion of the Department of Research Services, the Ryan-Matura Library has recently purchased a subscription to LibGuides, a platform for the delivery of our subject guides. Subject guides have traditionally been a great help to those students who find out about their existence. There are so many students, though, who never stumble across them. The LibGuides platform will not only allow us to make our guides more accessible (widgets can be dropped in Blackboard, facebook, and any web site), but it will also allow us to present these guides in a more user-friendly way, one that takes into consideration all of the benefits of the social web (ability for users to leave comments, rating system, social bookmarking tools, email updates, rss, fully-integrated virtual chat, ability to allow users to submit useful resources, etc., etc.).
Click the picture above to view a guide that I am currently working on, check back here for updates over the summer, and look for many more such guides this fall!
