Reference Librarians' Page

I came across this example of an academic library using a blog to solicit and respond to suggestions from patrons. The responses are very well done and, to me, it looks like a useful way to engage students and promote library services. We could do something like that here. What do you all think?

There’s a service available called LibGuides and I think we should seriously considering subscribing to it. The cost is $899.00 per year plus an optional $60 per year domain hosting fee (so that we can have the knox.edu domain associated with it). This service allows librarians to easily create guides to resources based on subject or course or whatever. The service’s premise is that it’s based on web 2.0 features–it integrates with Facebook, allows for tag clouds, chat widgets, etc. I think the attractive thing for us is that you don’t have to have any skills or training in web design or html/css or anything to get a page up and running in a short period of time. I encourage you to visit the site and check out the real-life examples from libraries using LibGuides. There’s also a video demo on the site that you can look at.