CIL2008: Library Web Presence

Speakers (Emily Rimland & Binky Lush) from Penn State University Libraries talked about doing a Research Jump Start page geared toward undergraduate students - primrarily incoming freshmen - who would be better served by something simpler than their main page.

They created several widgets for the page - and for use on external pages such as iGoogle, Netvibes, or Pageflakes using Widgetbox.

I like that the widgets can be put on student's own pages. Widgetbox also provides analytics. While it offers widget creation for Facebook, it does not offer Facebooks social aspects.

The other speakers (Kristina DeVoe & Derik Badman) were from Temple University Libraries discussing their implementation of the LibGuides product from Springshare. It offers an easy out of the box solution for staff to create interactive, modular subject guides. I've looked at Springshare a bit and will be investigating further, although it may not be necessary with the upcoming Drupal installation.

Temple's Guides

Other guide creation options were mentioned:
MyLibrary
SubjectsPlus
LibData
ResearchGuide
LibCourseBuilder
Social Bookmarking
Wikis

Presentation at MadInkBeard