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LibGuides @ SHU July 14, 2008 by patrickgavin 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.

I recently wrote an article for code4lib journal. The article is called WordPress as a Content Management System for a Library Web Site: How to Create a Dynamically Generated Subject Guide. It features my Ulysses WordPress theme as an example of how to use WordPress to create library Subject Guides.

Copy and paste the following into a new page. You may paste it as many times as you like, changing the <h3> Heading to represent the new sections and changing the category_name=SubjectDB to the corresponding section. Don’t forget to select the Subject Guide template.

CIL2008: Library Web Presence Widgets at Penn State Ellysa Stern CahoyEmily Rimland. Facebook application for the library. Led them to think about simple pages. Build "Research JumpStart" aimed at beginning users. Uses widgets -- little bits of content taken from their source and dumped into another page.