Embedding subject guides at NUS Libraries

• Main Author: TAY, Chee Hsien Aaron (ZHENG Zhixian)
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2010
• Subjects: Library guides; Subject guides 2.0; Web 2.0; Library and Information Science
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/library_research/110; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1112&context=library_research
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Librarians around the world have begun to experiment with dynamic subject guides, dubbed “Subject Guide 2.0” (Farkas, 2007; Kroski, 2007; Yang, 2009). They took their cue from Web 2.0 sites by incorporating interactive features, social sharing and dynamic layouts to appeal to users. In this paper, t...