CampusGuides: A Solution for the Hospital Library

Abstract

Our large nonprofit health system consists of one main campus and several regional hospitals, each with varying degrees of library services, access, and staffing. When our free wiki-based Web site platform went down unexpectedly, we needed a quick solution for our library Web pages. This article details our transition to LibGuides content management system (CMS; formerly called CampusGuides). Library Web sites across the hospital system now have a much more consistent "look & feel," are easier to update, and resource use can be tracked in new ways. Popular among academic libraries, we show that CampusGuides can be a valuable tool for hospital library systems.

Thinking Like a Student: Subject Guides in Small Academic Libraries

“…However, since then, all three have been discontinued or replaced by other software (Boeninger 2011). Woody (2015, 1-12) describes a case study of a multi-site hospital library that migrated from freely-hosted wiki software for the library website to LibGuides CMS. Surveying use of Web 2.0 tools in 120 public and academic libraries, Chua and Goh found that wikis were only used in ten of those libraries, primarily for collecting subject-matter related material (2010,208).…”