To create a new guide, go to the LibGuides Home page and select Create Guide in the LibGuides Shortcuts box, or select Guides from the Content menu and select the +Create Guide button.
The Choose Layout or Reuse drop-down menu offers two options for creating a new guide:
Option 1: Start fresh with an empty guide
Option 2: Copy an existing guide
Choose Start fresh to create a blank guide from scratch.
The guide template, Side-Nav Layout - UCI Libraries, should already be selected by default and this drop-down menu should be inactive (unable to be changed). It is important that this template is used because UCI Libraries IT has customized this template to include additional features that should be present on all guides.
Choose Copy content / layout from an existing guide, then use the drop-down menu to select either a "Local Guide" (from the UCI Libraries) or "Community Guide" (from other libraries).
By default, assets in the guide you are copying will be mapped to the originals. If you would instead like to create copies of these assets (which you would own), select the Copy Assets checkbox.
For an explanation of copying vs. mapping, visit: Reusable Boxes, Widgets, and More > Copying vs. mapping a box.
Best practice: Guide owners are notified when someone else copies their guide, so it is strongly encouraged that you to obtain permission from the guide owner before you copy their guide.
After choosing to Start fresh or Copy content / layout from an existing guide, you will complete the remaining fields to create your new guide.
Enter a title for your guide. This will display in the guide's page heading and breadcrumbs, as well as in the guide lists on the Research Guides homepage.
Guide names should be brief and self-explanatory. Please do not add the word "guide" to the name of your guide; this is redundant.
For Course Guides, please use the following naming convention.
Format: [Subject Abbreviation] [Course Number]: [Course Title]
Example: NS 108W: Frameworks of Professional Nursing
Do not include the quarter and/or year in the guide title. A Course Guide should be updated quarterly and/or yearly as needed, rather than creating a new guide each time. The benefits of this practice include having fewer guides to maintain, as well as having a single, consistent URL that will continue to be available for users (rather than a URL that changes frequently and results in many broken and/or outdated links).
Alternatively, course-specific content can be added to a Subject Guide as sub-pages (example: Dance: Class Guides), or as tabbed-boxes (example: Nursing: Class Materials & Tutorials).
Enter a brief introduction to the guide. This will display below the Guide Name. Maximum of 255 characters. This field helps with discoverability.
For more information on guide types, please visit: Guide Classifications > Types.
For more information on groups, please visit: Guide Classifications > Groups.
With LibGuides CMS, you can require users to provide a password before they can view your guide. This feature is not in use by the UCI Libraries.
You have the option of whether or not you want others to be able to make a copy of your guide.