While we value our role in supporting curricular and research needs, academic librarians should also support their students' needs for extracurricular, recreational, health, and other information, just as a public library does. We can and should provide resources about current and campus events such as visiting speakers, colloquia, festivals, and exhibits.

DePauw University's librarians are finding new ways to support campus activiites and engage with student and faculty interests. Using LibGuides, librarians are creating guides on topics such as global warming (for "Focus the Nation"), for campus speakers and visiting scholars, and for celebrations. These guides include RSS feeds of current news stories, links to reliable websites, embedded video and audio, and results of pre-constructed searches in our library catalog and subscription databases. Guides include surveys and allow comments, giving us feedback on their usefulness.

These guides show campus groups and the campus at large that librarians are interested in their activities, and can provide relevant, timely support to those who wish to learn more.