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Getting started with Libguides: Adding Content

Getting started with Libguides: Adding Content

Creating a guide from scratch

Libguide menu with arrow pointing to home

1. Select: Home

2. Select: Create Guide (from scratch)

Libguide shortcuts: create new guide

3. Give your guide a name

4. Guide description is optional - 

5. Select: Guide type (default is general purpose)

  •  General purpose
  • Course guide
  • Subject guide 
  • Topic guide
  • Internal guide
  • Template guide

6. Select: Create guide

Libguide: Create New Guide

Adding content to a guide screencast

This 5 minute video shows (start at 45 seconds in):

  • How to create a guide by copying a template (we created one for a Libguide training that is referenced here)
  • How to add pages and rename them
  • How to change the URL to be user-friendly
  • How to add a document (Word, PDF, Excel, etc.)
  • How to add a book
  • How to add a database
  • How to add website links
  • How to embed videos (media/widgets)