LibGuides Training: What is a LibGuide?

Is the "Lib" pronounced as in "liberation" or as in "library"?

Many people ask us this and - believe it or not - there were even bets being placed among some librarians (though we were assured that no money changed hands ;) Our official pronunciation is "Lib" as in liberation. -from the SpringShare Website

• LibGuides is a web 2.0 content management and publishing system created by SpringShare.
  
  
• LibGuides is a hosted system which is run on the SpringShare servers. The company provides support and upgrades. A library just needs to subscribe to the service.
  
  
• Libraries use it to:
  • integrate multimedia content into library services
  • promote library resources to their users
  • create subject guides, course guides, information portals, research help pages, etc.

There are now more than 12,000 users at over 750 libraries
worldwide using LibGuides.

They have created 40,000+ guides.