LibGuides for Authors

Creating a new guide:​

To keep our guides looking professional we should keep fonts the same throughout our LibGuides. When you paste text into the Rich Text Editor it will bring formatting that may not immediately appear different from the default. To fix this:

• Paste text, highlight what you have pasted, then click on the Remove formatting icon

When you first create a guide, its status is Unpublished. Other LibGuides authors at JCU can see what you've done, but it is not visible outside JCU Library.

You are thus free to learn as you go along without worrying that your initial efforts are visible to the world.

When you're ready to get feedback, you can change the status of your guide to Private. It still won't be listed among JCU's LibGuides, but can be viewed by anyone to whom you give the URL: other librarians, teaching staff, friends, colleagues at other institutions, etc.

When you're ready to make your guide public, there are several steps you need to take. For more on that and on changing a guide's status, see the Review/Publish page.

If you need to add your contact details along with other librarians you are able to do this more neatly (i.e. take up less room) by using the 'Books from the Catalog" box type and your existing record that is on the resusable content guide. So follow the steps on the adding a content box page to do this by reusing the relevant item. 

NOTE: make sure to regularly check your profiles across the system to see if you need to update any information.

To delete a guide:

• Go to your Dashboard, click Guides, select View/Edit My Guides
• Now select the guide you want to delete by clicking on the red cross (note you can only delete guides that you own) 
• WARNING - once a guide is deleted Springshare will not be able to restore the guide. Make sure you have a copy of the guide and an offline backup.
• You will be warned that deleting is permanent. If this is what you want click OK