Presentation given by Joshua Clark, UCD Library Outreach Librarian, at the ANLTC Seminar entitled "Using LibGuides: from simple online guides to complete library websites" at University College Dublin (Dublin, Ireland) on March 25, 2015.
2. LibGuides - Main Points
• Create, edit & customise guides
• Guides consist of tabs (pages)
containing boxes of various content
• LibGuides holds assets (documents,
PDFs, PPT, Excel, links, etc.) and
images
• Guides can be grouped together
• Mobile-friendly
3. Main Points, cont’d
• Create templates
• Guides & parts of guides can be
duplicated & reused
• Content can be mirrored
• Content can be embedded outside
LibGuides via widgets
• Different permissions for different
users – admin, regular, editor
4. LibGuides CMS
• Organise guides into groups
• Customise look & feel of individual
guides
• Enhanced statistics package
• Surveys
• 10mb file upload (5 in regular
LibGuides)
• Password protect guides and restrict
access by IP
• Enhanced database management
44. Wrapup/ considerations
• LibGuides can be as simple or as
complex as you like
• Relatively easy CMS for creating &
maintaining information
• Choose between regular LibGuides &
CMS version
• Relationship with Library website can
become blurred