Comments on: Subject guides on web 2.0 startup pages – 12 widgets

By: Gino Carpio

Gino Carpio — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:31:31 +0000

i dont see anything bad of search engines / wikis coming in replace of books…. sad, but online really gives more information and more resources.

What do you think guys?

gino – clickTRUE
http://www.clicktrue.biz

By: Aaron Tay

Aaron Tay — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:14:40 +0000

Yvonne, what type of global changes? I suspect it’s not possible.

Jeff sorry for the late reply.

You are right some of the examples are a bit cluttered, too many tabs etc, or too much material on one tab.

The examples I point to technically try to be more than subject guides, they also seem to double as portal pages, which perhaps explain the clutter.

Thanks for reading and commenting.

By: Yvonne

Yvonne — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:49:12 +0000

Is it possible to make global changes across several subject guides using a service like NetVibes?

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By: Jeff Karlsen

Jeff Karlsen — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:31:31 +0000

I’m getting a lot out of your posts–thanks so much for being so generous with examples here (and in previous posts). It’s interesting how LibGuides seems to have hit upon a very marketable formula simply by gearing a widget-based start page toward library uses. While I’m attracted to the idea of adapting an all-purpose service to these purposes, I’m not sure how well it works in practice–most of the examples are visually pretty cluttered/busy; perhaps best directed toward advanced users rather than those requiring basic orientation in a particular research goal. It may be that these start pages don’t provide enough flexibility in layout, or it may be that one just needs to work a bit harder to optimize them than happened in the cases you point to.

By the way, I was intrigued by the idea of using iGoogle–then learned that you cannot make iGoogle pages public. You can of course use Google Sites, but in some ways Sites is a very restrictive wiki environment, since any scripting must be done via Google Gadgets–not a difficult environment to work in, but still an extra step to take before including any widget content (unless it already exists as a Google Gadget).

By: Lisa Philpotts

Lisa Philpotts — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:16:49 +0000

Thanks for the post, Aaron! I’m actually writing up a report right now on how US/Canadian academic libraries are using Web 2.0 to create/promote their subject guides, as our library is thinking about switching over ourselves so we don’t have to churn out all our pages in DreamWeaver. I looked at about 25 large academic libraries and they all seem to be using either LibGuides or wikis. Your post certainly gives me some other options to consider, though.