Libguides Help for Librarians: The Basics

Log On to Libguides

On the library website (http://library.elmhurst.edu/home) click Login to LibApps in the lower right-hand corner, and log on with your Libguides credentials.  

What do you want to do? 

Use the toolbar to navigate.  Go to Home for most non-administrative tasks.  

This list is not an exhaustive list of things you can do; see Help for tips and tutorials.

Home

• Create a new guide
• Edit existing guides
• Edit profile box
• Manage your images

Content

• See and edit all guides
• Manage assets
  • links, databases, etc.
• Manage all images

Tools

• Create widgets to embed
• Data exports
• Link checker (this only works if links are formatted as a link in LibGuides)
• Search & Replace (make mass edits across a guide, page, content box, or item)

Statistics

• track and export usage statistics for the system, guides, and assets

Admin 

• System settings
  • system information, proxy, defaults, social media
• Look & feel
  • banner, footer, tab & box options, custom JS/CSS, page layout (templates)
• Subjects, tags & friendly URLs
  • subjects link to A-Z guide subject categories and to lists of guides
• Accounts
• Alert boxes
  • we haven't used these

Help

• links to Springshare documentation & support

Log into LibGuides and select Home from the toolbar.  Choose Create Guide.

You have two options: Start fresh (default), or Copy an existing guide.

• Enter a guide name
• Select the guide type
  • ​If you want your guide to show up in the list of course guides, select Course Guide.

Click Create Guide at the bottom.

Once your guide has been created and filled with content, it needs to be published with a subject association so that it shows up on the library homepage's lists of course guides.

• If you did not select the guide type when you created your guide, click the gear in the small toolbar at the right and  select Guide Type & Group.  
• Choose Course Guide.

Click the red Unpublished button.  Change the status to Published.