Fun with LibGuides

Our library just got a trial account with LibGuides, and I find this to be a very useful way for librarians to get needed data up on the web. They provide you with a template for adding links, podcasts, rss feeds and heaven knows what else in an attractive 3 column format. I did my page as a guide to the digitization projects that we are pursuing at Quinnipiac. After doing the obvious, I found this to be a good way to experiment with things like podcasts and widgets.

There were a couple of things that wouldn't work for me at first. I dropped a note into their support link and was startled to hear from Slaven Zivkovic within about an hour. One of the problems was a caching situation on my machine. The second was actually a problem in accepting scripts from picturetrail.com. They had the whole thing fixed by the end of the afternoon. If they maintain that level of service, they'll make a lot of friends in a short time. Here is the cube that is also displaying properly on my LibGuides page:

Finally, here is a link to the page I created:
http://libraryguides.quinnipiac.edu/content.php?pid=3066

LibGuides is a very useful way for librarians in universities to get their data out without worrying about stepping on the toes of webmasters at their schools. A great product.