Control Your Presence: Using LibGuides as a Template for Library Websites

Control Your Presence: Using LibGuides as a Template for Library Websites
Using LibGuides to create a library website has multiple benefits:

• Allows the Library to control its own web content
• Easy to update
• Requires no training or specialized knowledge beyond basic LibGuide creation
• Requires no special software
• Provides good navigational design
• Allows multiple forms of user interaction
• Automatically enables mobile and ADA-compliant view
• Can be designed to fit within the main website's look 

Using LibGuides allows a library to easily maintain its own site, redesigning and updating quickly as needed. Because many librarians are familiar with using LibGuides for research guides, any of them can take on the responsibility for the library site's content. The flexibility allows ease of navigation design and limits the necessity of scrolling to find new information and links. Finally, the automatic mobile and ADA site functionality eliminates the necessity of becoming deeply-versed in these skills.