Instructions for optimizing libguide format; How to add RSS feed to libguides; How to add podcasts to libguides; How to link libguide book lists to library catalog records; How to upload book cover images to libguides for out-of-print books or rare books with no ISBN; How to link to catalog records for books and videos with no ISBN; How to resize widgets and videos to fit libguide column widths; How to create overflow boxes to scroll vertically down long lists;

1. OPTIMIZING THE
LIBGUIDE FORMAT
Libguide extras
Valinda S. Carroll
Preservation Manager
William R. and Norma B. Harvey Library
Hampton University

2. Optimize Your Guides
 Link “Books from the Catalog” list to individual
entries in HU library catalog
 Upload or link to images from other sources
 Embed dynamic content: rss
feeds, podcasts, “xyz of the day”
 Embed and reformat videos
 Modify large box with slider

3. Books From the Catalog
Link to a single title with a known ISBN or ISSN:
http://domain/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=ISBN
http://huwebcat.hamptonu.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=ISBN
http://huwebcat.hamptonu.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=9780415603409

4. Custom Title Search
Link to book that has no isbn (or DVD)
Link to multiple editions of same book
May link to other works with same
title (sometimes related works, such as
film version of book)

5. Link to book by title
 http://huwebcat.hamptonu.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?
searchdata1=title+words{TI}
 http://huwebcat.hamptonu.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?
searchdata1=american+decorated+publishers'+bindings{TI}

6. http://huwebcat.hamptonu.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=american+decorated+publishers'+bindings{TI}

7. Custom Search link
author search
http://huwebcat.hamptonu.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=author{AU}
subject search
http://huwebcat.hamptonu.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=subject+words{SU}
call number browse
http://huwebcat.hamptonu.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=class=LC&searchdata1=LCnumber

9. Upload image
90 pixels x 140 pixels
Images can be
added directly
into the image
manager on
the
DASHBOARD or
from the rich
text interface
(“edit text”) in
most boxes

13. Linking new picture to book title
 Right click on image to get URL
 Copy URL
 “Add New Book”
 Select “Other” for cover art
 Paste URL into box under the word “Other”
 Save and close

14. Multimedia
•RSS FEEDS
•PODCASTS
•VIDEOS

16. Adding RSS feed URL
1. Expect to see RSS in the URL
2. Valid RSS links should end with .xml
3. Copy and paste URL after creating the multimedia box
EXAMPLE:
French television TF1:
 http://www.tf1.fr/xml/rss/0,,77,00.xml

17. Adding Podcast Feed
French television TF1 podcast
 http://www.tf1.fr/xml/rss/0,,204,00.xml
Embedding a podcast feed is exactly the
same as embedding a regular rss feed

18. Embedding a widget or video

23. Overflow box
<style>div #boxatt9425112
{height: 585px; overflow: auto;
}</style> <p>Find DVDs on the 2nd
floor of the Harvey Library<br
/>Look for the description "French
with English subtitles" </p><hr />

24. Modify the code
•Copy box slider code into plain
text (Wordpad or Notepad)
•Insert box number
•Insert desired box height
•Copy code and paste into “plain
text” in the desired box