LibGuides: Best practices

Under Libguide Shortcuts choose Create New Guide

1. Choose Use an existing guide as template under Start Fresh...
2. You can copy a guide you have created, another guide from your insitution, or a guide from a different institution under Community. You can search by title or type in the URL
3. Name and describe your guide under Guide Settings

Reusing a Template

1. Under My Admin choose Create New Guide
2. Choose Use an exisiting guide as template under Start Fresh...
3. You can copy a guide you have created, another guide from your insitution, or a guide from a different institution under Community -you can search by title or type in the URL
4. Name and describe your guide under Guide Settings

CREDIT: Adapted from the Creating and Editing LibGuides Best Practices: Getting Started  pages created by Purdue University.

Once you have completed your guide, we can create a table of contents. Here are the steps.

1. First make sure each guide page has a readable Page URL (Click pencil editing icon in box above side navigation).
2. Go to live version of your page in a new tab/window
   • Click the "eye" icon to get a preview of your guide.
   • Click the guide name in the breadcrumbs menu (above the guide title). 
3. ​From your live guide, highlight and copy the entire left column menu.
4. Go back to the edit screen and create a box for your table of contents
   • Create a Rich Text/HTML content item.
5. In the editing toolbar, click on the "Paste from Word" icon (W on clipboard)
6. Paste the menus into this window.
7. Once you click OK, the list of links will appear ready for editing.
8. Delete second level list items as needed. 
9. Provide descriptions of the pages and save.​