Checklist tips and how-to for getting started in LibGuides 2.0.

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LibGuides 2.0 Post-Migration Checklist
and Guide
Liz Johns
emjohns@jhu.edu

2. Checklist: tinyurl.com/kumspsd
Dashboard:
jhu.libapps.com/libapps/
 Update Account
 Update Profile
 Explore the new system
 Review the checklist
 Work on a guide
Open These Links:
Today:

3. +Getting Started in 2.0
 My Account
 My Profile
 Image Manager

4. Update your Account
1. Email Address and Password
• Update if necessary
2. Account Settings
• Change your name to your preferred
name if necessary.
• Add your title
• Add your email signature if desired.

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Update Profile
1. Update Profile Box
2. Update Profile Page

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Update Profile Box
a) Box Title: Give your box a meaningful
title: “Your Librarian” or “Engineering
Librarian” etc.
a) Profile Image: Upload a new profile
image as necessary. Image must be a
picture of your face.

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Update Profile Box
c) Contact Info:
• Enter phone number if desired
• Do not enter address, Skype,
website/blog
• Display Options: Select Page Only
d) Social Media, Social Cataloging, Widgets:
Leave blank.

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Update Profile Page
a) Select “Enabled”
b) Add to Personal Statement Section

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Image Manager
1. Upload and organize images as needed.
To move images to a new folder, click the
truck icon.

10. +LibGuides
 Accessing LibGuides
 Dashboard & Toolbar
 Assets
 Edit Existing Guide

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Accessing LibGuides
1. Click Home
2. Click “LibGuides” (center of page)

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Dashboard & Toolbar
1. Bookmark this page for easy access to
your guides.
1. Review and explore the toolbar
1. Check your assets

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Check your Assets
1. Delete your duplicates.
2. Delete your unused assets.
3. Make sure names, descriptions and links
are correct for your assets.
4. Check links for ebooks and books. Switch
links to the catalog record.

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Click Home
Pick a guide to edit.
Edit
Existing
Guide

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Add subjects
1. Click the pencil icon next to “Subjects.”
2. Select at least one subject from the list.
You may choose more than one subject
as appropriate to your guide.
3. Fill out the form to be listed as an
“expert” for any particular subject:
http://goo.gl/forms/JkRa4chXzb

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Add profile box
1. Click Add Box.
2. Name your box appropriately (“Your
Librarian” or “Business Librarian”).
3. Under “Type” select “Profile.”
4. Save.

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Add Ask Us Box
1. Click Add Box.
2. Click Reuse Existing Box.
3. Find the Toolbox
4. Select the box to reuse.
5. Save.

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Reorder boxes on page
1. Select Page.
2. Select Reorder/Move Boxes.
Note that this is also where you can
rearrange pages, content within boxes,
and edit the page properties.
3. Grab and drag boxes as necessary.

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A few more things…
 Check boxes for missing content.
 Check for any really out of date or incorrect information.
 Delete information about dissertations.
 Hide any pages that do not have content.
 Remove or unpublish inactive course guides/pages.
 Remove all non-ADA compliant formatting such as colors,
boldface, all caps and underlining.
 Review the Post-Migration Checklist for more!

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LibGuides 2.0 Top Tips
Create boxes
(and pages) in
draft mode -
hiding them from
public view until
you are ready for
them.
Dazed and confused? Just ask Liz: emjohns@jhu.edu
Refrain from
copying boxes as
much as
possible. We want
to keep content
consistent. Instead,
reuse content.
The URLs for the beta site are
jhu.beta.libguides.com right now,
but will become
guides.library.jhu.edu on the week
of January 26th. When linking to
other guides, use relative links
(/refworks not full URL) OR use the
“Add a Guide” content feature.

21. + More reusable content in
the toolbox
 New guide on “How to
find books, articles, etc.”
 Philosophical and
pedagogical discussions
about content and
organization of guides.
 More guidelines and
content standards to
suite the new system.