LibGuides CMS
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LibGuides CMS expands the functionality of base LibGuides to give libraries a comprehensive, easy-to-use content management platform. Its flexibility makes LibGuides CMS an ideal solution for many use cases within your organization.
Get Your Group On!
Improve site organization, showcase exhibits and departments, create a staff intranet, streamline site setup and maintenance, and create targeted customizations using LibGuides CMS Groups. System Administrators, rejoice!
Look & Feel
Customize the look & feel of each group, independently - everything from headers & footers to banners & box colors and shapes. Create independent mini-sites with their own identities, under one common platform umbrella.
Access Controls
Define who can access which group, with full access controls at the group level including passwords and IP restrictions. Connect users via LibAuth to your authentication system for automatic access control mechanisms based on various user roles.
User Permissions
Define which users can do what inside each Group. It's a great way to fine-tune user permissions inside your CMS platform and ensure that the right people can edit the right content, without worrying about overwrites and mixups.
Unlimited Templates
Create as many templates as needed and apply them to groups, or let users pick any one of the group-specific templates.
Security & Protection For Your Content
IP Restrictions
Restrict access at the system level, group level, or for individual guides. Route users through your LDAP, ADFS, CAS, Shibboleth, or SIP2 authentication layer.
Password Protection
Password-protect individual guides and entire groups. Useful for sharing copyright-restricted content, 'eyes-only' content, or content intended for special groups.
Secure Document Access
Secure file storage ensures that access can only happen as defined. Optionally password-protect documents for another layer of security.
Granular Account Permissions
Define account-specific permissions and even create a ‘login-required’ group for your staff intranet, where access is fine-tuned for each user.
Publishing Controls & Write APIs
Make LibGuides CMS your content publishing platform and repository for the entire organization. With Publishing Controls, admins can review and approve any content before it's published. The Write APIs enable your technical stuff to automatically update LibGuides content at scale.
With these advanced publishing and content updating controls, LibGuides CMS is a true repository of librarian-generated content. You can then use widgets, feeds, indexing, and APIs to make this content fully distributed and available anywhere and everywhere.
LibGuides is one of the most flexible platforms I use. Not only can it do almost anything, the interface is so intuitive that anyone can skillfully use it. I've taught many folks at my school how to use LibGuides for their course-pages, project descriptions, photo galleries, and more! Plus working with the folks at Springshare is always a pleasure!
Embed Library Resources Inside Courseware
Our LibGuides CMS LTI tool enables you to offer tailored, subject-specific resources natively, inside your Blackboard, Moodle, Sakai, Canvas, Desire2Learn, and other LTI-compliant courseware tools. Embed subject-specific and course-specific resources into your courseware, at scale!
Subject-Specific Guides & Databases
The system automatically matches relevant metadata and displays guides and A-Z databases related to the subject and course the student is accessing.
Point of Need Reference Help
The LTI module in LibGuides CMS enables you to automatically embed LibChat and LibAnswers widgets inside courseware, so students can get help from librarians at the point of need, whenever they need it.
Subject Expert Librarians
Promote the expertise and knowledge of your subject librarians. The LTI tool displays the profiles of relevant subject librarians right inside courseware pages.
Study Rooms & Consultation Bookings
Embed LibCal booking widgets inside the LTI module and your students can book study rooms or research consultations with their subject librarian - all from within the courseware system.
Discussion Boards for Collaboration & Feedback
Collaboration with colleagues at work often takes place over email. Conversations are hard to find, are easily lost, and can go on and on. Final decisions can be hard to, well, finalize. Get out of the email rut and keep your discussions contextual with internal discussion boards that are searchable and tag-filterable.
Start a Public Forum Public discussion boards allow you to engage with your community right in your site, with a system-wide board for general conversation and discussion boards on individual guides.
See What's Possible
Browse the LibGuides community site and see what librarians the world over are doing with LibGuides. Or, check out "Springy Picks" which showcase a selection of best-of guides. Note that both links below open in a new window.
Create an Amazing Website
The LibGuides' ease-of-use and flexibility make it an ideal website-building platform. Check out a few examples of beautiful, functional, feature-rich library websites built with the LibGuides and LibGuides CMS. Note that the link below opens in a new window.
Detailed Statistics Which Go Above And Beyond
LibGuides CMS builds upon the LibGuides' statistical package and provides additional statistics which give you detailed insight into how your content is being used and by whom.
Plug & Play Integrations With Other Tools
LibGuides plays nice with others. Integrate LibGuides content into any other web-based system, and the other way around. Use additional tools from our #librarianfirst platform and super charge your LibGuides experience!
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LibGuides / CMS
Curate and showcase library resources. Create guides, build websites, A-Z lists, or a staff intranet. Embed library resources anywhere. And that's just a start! More >>
LibAnswers +Social
Communication and Social Media for Libraries. LibChat, Email ticketing, SMS, Twitter, etc. Build a knowledge base & FAQs. Detailed reference stats. More >>
LibCal
Manage Library Hours, Online Event Signups, Room & Equipment Bookings, Research Consultations, etc. Integrations with Calendars, Outlook, gCal, iCal... More >>
LibInsight
An affordable tool to gather & analyze all library statistics. SUSHI harvesting, COUNTER statistics, Cross-dataset analytics, custom dashboard builders... More >>
LibCRM
CRM platform tailored for the needs of libraries. Your users are your most important asset. Build and cultivate strong relationships with your community. More >>
LibStaffer
Move away from paper and spreadsheets. Manage staff schedules, service point staffing, student-worker, and volunteer hours. Powerful reporting to boot. More >>
LibWizard
Create web forms, conduct surveys & solicit feedback. Build interactive tutorials and test users' research skills with quizzes & assessments modules. More >>
E-Reserves
A cost-effective solution for E-reserves, Reading Lists and Document Management. Integrates with LibGuides, and with courseware via LTI module. More >>
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