Thanks Patricia and welcome to ETKN!
I’m not sure what the cost is, but I’ve
monitored the rise of LibGuides across academic libraries for a couple years.
I really have gained a lot from using them.
These days I almost don’t know of any
University libraries that don’t use them. J
LibGuides are EXACTLY the kind of thing
that transportation librarians could be using to help the transportation
research community.
Perhaps this is something the NTKN/NTL would
care to sponsor?
I suspect it would be affordable.
Ken
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From:
etkn-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:etkn-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Patricia Elaine Kirkwood
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011
10:33 AM
To: Eastern
Transportation Knowledge Network
Subject: Re: [etkn-forum] Today's
ETKN Meeting
Thank you all for your warm welcome.
Here is an example of the LibGuide I mentioned – An
example of a resource that can be used to create nice web pages quickly
-- as we were speaking, I uploaded the
pdf you sent out with the agenda. http://uark.libguides.com/CVEG5463
The service we purchase this product from is: http://springshare.com/libguides/
They have other products that might be more appropriate for your environments
and apparently (I haven’t done it yet) you can tweet when you publish or update
a guide.
Patricia
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