Monday, June 2, 2008

Use of wikis & blogs for subject guides

Meredith Farkas, in her May 2007 American Libraries article, points out that wikis can make "a subject guide easier to update, searchable, and collaborative” (Farkas 2007, p. 33). Here is an Early Childhood Education Subject Guide Built Using a Wiki: http://www.lib.fsu.edu/wiki/index.php/Early_Childhood_Education

Other libraries have used blogs to create and maintain subject guides. Plymouth State University in New Hampshire is using Scriblio, which is a customized version of the WordPress blogging software for their subject guides as well as their library OPAC. Here is an example of their Graphic Design Subject Guide Built using Scriblio: http://library.plymouth.edu/by-subject/graphic-design

1 comment:

Maggie said...

Such great and simple examples of subject/research guides. No need to "navigate" through text based instructions...thank you for not being anonymous - saves the "blogossips" wasting time guessing who you are!