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.

1. LibGuides for the
Absolute Beginner
Josh Clark
Outreach Librarian, UCD
joshua.clark@ucd.ie

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

6. libguides.leedsbeckett.ac.uk

7. PAGES
BOXES
(Content)

10. Content
• Guides listing/ Create a new guide
• Assets –documents, PDF, excel, etc
• Image Manager – all images
(graphics, photos, etc.)

13. All content items
are stored here
for sharing

15. Links to your
databases for
subject guides
would go here

16. All images are
stored here for
sharing

17. Tools
• Create widgets that can be
embedded in any website, blog,
etc.
• APIs
• Link checker – run reports
• Search & replace

19. Statistics

20. Admin
• Manage accounts
• Customise look and feel
• Manage groups
• System settings – options for
guides, stats, default layouts
• Subjects, tags, URLs

24. Creating a
guide

34. Editing an
existing guide

38. 25 50 25

39. Content boxes

40. Edit or delete

41. Add various types of
content, or reorder
content within a box

43. Various
content
types in
one box
1
2
3

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

45. Thank you
Josh Clark
Outreach Librarian, UCD
email: joshua.clark@ucd.ie
@jclark923