Best Practices for Librarians using Libguides

Once you are satisfied with a guide, be sure to publish it so that it is visible to everyone.

New guides are unpublished by default, so be sure to choose the appropriate publication setting once you're ready to publish.

• On the right-hand side of the screen you'll see three publication statuses:
  • Unpublished — visible only to the guide owners and administrators
  • Private — visible to anyone with the url, but will not appear in search results (in Research Guides or general search engines)
  • Published — visible to anyone on the web

Associate your published guide with a Subject.

Be sure to associate your guide with both a group and a guide type:

Either as you're creating your guide or after, you should associate it with both a group and guide type:

• Groups:
  • Current (current or future course guides)
  • Previous Semesters (course guides from past semesters)
  • Topics (subdisciplinary guides not associated with a particular course)
  • How-To (general guides not applicable to any particular discipline)
  • Subject (for Research Guides administrators only)

• Types:
  • Course Guide (all courses)
  • Topic Guide (all topics)
  • General Purpose (for How-To Guides)
  • Subject Guides (administrators only)
  • Internal Guides (administrators only)
  • Template Guides (administrators only)

Once you've created a guide you can choose or change your group and guide type by clicking on the gear icon on the right-hand side of the screen:

As you're creating your guides, you can also select guide and group types from the following dropdown menus: