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LibGuides CMS
LibGuides CMS builds upon the base LibGuides platform to provide you with even more features.
- Groups - organize guides into groups that contain their own look & feel functionality. visually and logistically separate content.
- Access Controls - Limit access to your system, a group of guides, or a single guide using IP Restrictions and Guide-level passwords.
- Templating - Create an unlimited amount of templates to give unique groups of guides a distinct look & feel.
- Courseware Integration - deliver a customized library landing page with subject-specific LibGuides, Databases, and more.
- Real-time, RESTful API - pull any piece of content from your system and display it on any website using our robust API.
- Enhanced Statistics - LibGuides CMS gives you even more information and details about how your system is being used.
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LibGuides CMS is perfectly designed to host your Library website, so if you're looking for a
fully-featured and yet simple-to-use CMS system - Power Your Library Website with LibGuides CMS.
Academic Library Examples
- LibGuides CMS as Website, Berea College Library (Kentucky)Located in Kentucky.
Beautiful customizations and integration with LibCal: Scheduler & Hours and LibAnswers. - LibGuides CMS Groups, Wake Tech Community College Library (North Carolina)Located in North Carolina, Wake Tech uses Groups to separate out groups of guides by type. Search Course Guides, How-to Guides, and Subject Guides.
LibGuides CMS Groups - Public Library Examples
- LibGuides CMS Groups, New Hanover County Public Library (North Carolina)NHCPL uses Groups staff intranet purposes. Restricted Groups are used for sharing library information and communicating important security and safety information.
- LibGuides CMS Groups, State Library of North Carolina (North Carolina)The NC State Library uses Groups extensively for sharing information about Continuing Education for NC Library Staff, Training Resources, Toolkits, and more!
LibGuides CMS Groups - K12 Libraries & School Districts Examples
- LibGuides CMS as Website, Brisbane Grammar School Library (Australia)Brisbane Grammar School Library uses LibGuides CMS to power their library website. They also use Groups for different assignment topics and to restrict access to their paid subscription content.
More K-12 (School) Library Examples:
- "The Raven" LibGuides CMS Group, Scotch College Library (Australia)Brad Tyrrell created a highly-customized group, The Raven, to showcase student literary work at this Australian K-12 school.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes! It is possible to route your off-campus users to a proxy authentication login.
LibGuides CMS is the platinum package of LibGuides. It can do everything that basic LibGuides can do, plus a whole lot more!
>> Learn more in our Why Upgrade to LibGuides CMS LibGuide.
Custom domain mapping (CDM) allows you to choose your own URL for your LibGuides CMS system. Here are a few examples of real custom domains used by clients:
Basically, it's one more way you can brand your LibGuides CMS site as coming from your library.
We perform nightly backups of all our databases, so in the case of a catastrophic system crash, the most data you could lose is the current day's worth of new content. Please note that we have NEVER had a system crash.
The data is backed up to network attached storage, so it doesn't reside on the same servers as the production environment. We also regularly check the integrity of our daily backups.
LibGuides CMS is a fully hosted package, and we don't offer the option to host your content on your own local servers. There are many advantages to this method:
- Our system uptime is near-legendary, and while we don't guarantee an uptime percentage, we go to great lengths to make sure that LibGuides is available all the time.
- You'll never need to worry about installing system updates or system maintenance - we take care of that. You're always running the latest-and-greatest system and you'll always have access to new updates.
- Since all systems are hosted, cross-system communication is a breeze making it easy to reuse and copy guides between libraries.
Yes! You absolutely can add search boxes and widgets of any kind.
Your content is your own. If you ever decide to cancel your LibGuides CMS subscription, we'll give you all of your data in an XML format within 30 days of canceling.
LibGuides CMS is a yearly subscription.
LibGuides CMS is priced based upon the number of users in your demographic accessing the system.
- For Academic Libraries - this would be your total FTE
- For Public Libraries - your total registered card holders
- For School Libraries - your total number of students
- For Special Libraries - this would be your total number of intended patrons accessing/using the system
We don't like the word 'limit'. You can create an unlimited number of guides and accounts. You can build an unlimited number of:
- Guides
- Groups
- Accounts
- Custom Templates
From 3” smartphones to 28” monitors, your users have a variety of tools at their disposal. LibGuides CMS automatically delivers the optimal display – whatever device they’re on.