LibGuides

Add, Reuse, Share - Leverage Your Content and Save Time

REUSE CONTENT

Everything in LibGuides is reusable. Share links, content, pages, and guide templates across your institution or with the community.

500,000+ GUIDES TO SHARE

Reuse guides from the LibGuides community and benefit from the knowledge and best practices of librarians worldwide.

COURSEWARE INTEGRATION

Our exclusive LTI Module for LibGuides CMS enables you to insert targeted library resources into any LTI-compliant courseware platform.

APIS AND WIDGETS

All content within LibGuides (links, RSS feeds, documents, etc…) can be integrated within any website using our easy-to-use widgets and powerful RESTful APIs.

DISTRIBUTE YOUR CONTENT

Turn your LibGuides into an easy-to-use repository of librarian-created content and distribute it into Courseware, Facebook, Blogs, Discovery Layer, OPAC, or into any other website.

Easy Maintenance, Tons of Features - What's Not To Like?

You're a busy bee, we know, so we made it easy and effortless to maintain your LibGuides content. With LibGuides, your users always have up-to-date information - about your guides, about you and your staff... and about the entire library!

Built-in Link Checker

View an actionable report of broken links inside your guides so you don't have to worry about your users uncovering broken or expired links.

Blogging Functionality

Create and maintain blogs inside LibGuides and keep your community up to date with news, information, happenings, etc.

A-Z Database Management

Create an A-Z list of databases and subject best-bets. Automatically include proxy info, manage trial databases, etc.

Librarian Profiles

Create profiles for librarians and showcase their subject expertise, guides, contact info, chat, etc. Mini profile boxes appear on every guide, too.

Promote on Social

Promote guides and blogs with our integrated social media publishing. Auto-capture screenshots of your guides & blog posts to visually enrich your social posts.

Search, SEO, API, XML

LibGuides SEO makes your content discoverable by Google and other search engines. Ingest LibGuides content into your own search via XML or RESTful APIs.

No HTML Required

Our point-and-click interface enables creation of great-looking content with no programming skills required.

Multimedia Support

Easily embed video clips, gallery boxes, book covers... or any media to make your content stand out.

Powerful Reporting Capabilities & Statistics (optional)

Real-time insight into your system usage, including hits on guides and individual assets. Drill down to individual guide reports to see how many times guides were accessed each month. Produce reports detailing the success of your Information Literacy and Library Instruction programs.

LibGuides CMS offers even more detailed statistics such as # of user sessions, browser, and OS breakdown including mobile devices, search terms stats, referring URLs, and more.

LibGuides CMS - LibGuides Supercharged! (optional)

LibGuides CMS takes your LibGuides to the next level. The CMS version has all the functionality of LibGuides plus many additional features. It includes fine-tuned access controls, content protections (IP ranges, passwords), groups for better organization, additional A-Z Database management, additional account levels, & granular user permissions. It also comes with LibWizard Lite, our forms/survey builder.

E-Reserves & Document Management Add-on (optional)

Our E-Reserves module is the most cost-effective way to manage course reserve readings at your library. The powerful built-in document management functionality integrates fully into LibGuides and enables you to manage it all while your users get a single point of access for all guides and e-reserves content.