1. Research Support through…
Needs with LibGuides

2. West Morris Regional High School District

3. The Library Media Centers

5. Digitally Platform for Your Library Services

6. Great vehicle for Removing outdated Stereotypes of
your Library

7. Quick Introduction
http://goanimate.com/videos/0hvDU57GlCQk?utm_source=linkshare&utm_medium=linkshare&utm_campaign
=usercontent

8. LEGOS FOR LIBRARIES

9. Add and Edit Boxes and Pages
Pages Boxes

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All Together, pages and boxes look like this…
http://www.wmrhsd.libguides.com/content.php?pid=626766

11. Search LibGuides Homepage
http://www.wmrhsd.libguides.com/
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12. Integrates Social
Media Google Apps
• Shelfari Virtual book list
•GoAnimate videos
•YouTube Playlists
•Voicethreads
•Google Slides
•Voki
•Google Lit Trip
•Blogs
•Surveys
•and much, much More

13. Box types allow you to do different things

14. LibGuide Community
http://libguides.com/community.php?m=g
Best of LibGuides
http://bestof.libguides.com/home
LIBGUIDE COMMUNITY IS THERE TO
HELP YOU!

15. Search and explore 422,683 Guides at
4,788 libraries worldwide!
http://libguides.com/community.php?m=g
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16. Don’t
Reinvent
the
Wheel…use
templates!

17. Ask and you shall receive…!
• http://wmrhsd.libguides.com/aecont
ent.php?pid=570055

18. What Students and Faculty See:
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19. What I See:Index of Published and Unpublished Guides

20. How do you go about
getting the Support You
need for your Classroom Needs…?

21. How to you go from
feeling like this?
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22. To this…?
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23. Just Ask!
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Can you list databases
that deal with
controversial issues?
Can you show my
students how to
search for
ebooks?
Can you give a library
orientation that
focuses on the project
we are starting in
Health, English, Hitory,
etc?
Can you create a
playlist of videos
related to my topic?
Can you show my
students how to
do an in-text
(parenthetical)
citation?
Can you host our
finished projects on the
LibGuide?

24. Customize, Customize, Customize…
Request specific instructional
content that will support your
class project and save you time!
Example
Renaissance Art
History guide
http://wmrhsd.libguides.com/content.php?p
id=539470
Anything
Goes!

25. Share as Much Information about Research
Project as Possible
• Get the assignment*
• *If it’s a Google Doc, share it
with me
• Ask me to link the assignment
to the LibGuide
• Communicate via email
• Meet me in the library, or invite
me to your classroom to talk

26. The Crucible – Mendham Sophomore
Orientation
• Demonstrate book and
database searching
instructions
• Includes assignment
• Add a survey
• Add related instructional
points
http://wmrhsd.libguides.com/aecontent.php?pid=525789

27. Request help on a Unit that the whole
Department can Use…
Night by Elie Wiesel
Wow…this will
save me hours
of work!
http://wmrhsd.libguides.com/aecontent.php?pid=543848

28. British and
World Poets Research
http://wmrhsd.libguides.com/aecontent.php?pid=454463&sid=3723733

29. Historical Investigation
for IB Assessment
http://www.wmrhsd.libguides.com/content.php?pid=596
985

30. Macbeth Research
http://wmrhsd.libguides.com/macbeth

31. Night
By Elie Wiesel -
Resources for Personal Projects
http://wmrhsd.libguides.com/wiesel

32. Career Research
http://wmrhsd.libguides.com/content.php?pid=468261

33. IB Dance
Investigation
http://wmrhsd.libguides.com/dance_investigation

34. Merchant of Venice
Research
http://wmrhsd.libguides.com/merchantofvenice

35. A Work in Progress
- Gear Robots
http://wmrhsd.libguides.com/aecontent.php?pid=59703
7&sid=4922803

36. Debate Team at WMCHS
http://wmrhsd.libguides.com/debateteam

37. Time to Press the Publicity Button!

38. Tweet About it….

39. Register for email Alerts
• Send teachers the link to
Register for email alerts
when new LibGuides are
Published
• http://www.wmrhsd.libgu
ides.com/register.php?gid
=0

40. BONUS FEATURE….DATA!
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41. Show off your Usage Data…
and use it as SGO artifacts too!

42. View Individual Guide Usage Data

43. What do other Librarians have to Say?
• http://dlpierce2litguide.blogspot.com/2011/11/libguides-growing.
html

44. • http://www.learningandleading-digital.
com/learning_leading/20110910/?pg=33&pm=2&u1=friend - pg33

45. 1 # Request a guide on a general topic or theme of
interest to the your classes, (e.g., Banned Books,
Dystopia)

46. #2 Request a tab/page back your teacher website
or haiku page

47. #3…Have students follow a guide presentation
using chrome books or laptops. This gives them
hands-on experience!

48. #4… link your new guide to your class Website

49. #5…Request that your guides boxes (or pages) be
prioritized according to your desires. You can even
request to collaborate directly on the guide.

50. #6… Request that I introduce a guide to your class in
person, or if you prefer, I can embed a brief
screencasted tutorial into your guide!!

51. 19th Century Library

52. 21st Century Library

53. Contact Me
• Mary Beth Davis
• West Morris Regional H.S. District Library
Media Specialist
• mdavis@wmrhsd.org

54. Explore Other LibGuides:
• http://libguides.com/community.php
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55. Please Complete This Survey
• https://docs.google.com/a/wmrhsd.org/forms
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