Once you've built your guide and ready to publish, use this page to make sure that you've included all necessary components.
Profile/Contact Box
- Include a profile/contact box on the guide. Group pages may use a “contact us” box where appropriate.
- Apply an appropriate label/title to your Profile/Contact Box.
- Include contact information on your Profile/Contact box (phone, email, library building/room location).
- Use a profile photo. Resize the photo as needed.
General Guide Settings
- Home page: Include a 'home' tab that serves as the homepage for your guide.
- Off-Campus Proxy Access: Include off-campus access information on your guide (box or page). Off-Campus Proxy boxes can be copied from the toolbox.
Publishing
- Associate subject(s) with your guide.
- Use the most appropriate subject(s) for your guide
- Assign tags.
- Tags are additional access points for your guide; Use as many as needed and make them as specific as you like
- Create a Friendly URL. http://guides.libraries.uc.edu/________
- Friendly URLs make it easier for users to search and find your guide (http://guides.libraries.uc.edu/nursing)
- Add your LibGuide to a group
- Each library location has a corresponding group. The sandbox group is available to use as a testing ground only.
- Add co-editors to the guide.
- Add co-editor(s) to your guide who can edit your guide in your absence if needed. If you do not appoint co-editor(s), the LG Administrators will edit your guide if needed during your absence.
- Review. Before you publish, ask several people to review your guide.
- Others may catch misspellings, suggest helpful changes, or notice what may have been left out inadvertently.
- Test your guide from off-campus in order to check Proxy issues and access.
- Search for your guide (browse by subject, group, etc.) once you’ve published and make any needed changes.
Publish
- When your guide is published it is: 1) Available to everyone 2) Indexed for searching.
