LibGuides: LibGuides 2.0 Toolkit (NPU): Publishing/Maintaining

Key Terms

Published: Indexed on the public website and accessible by everyone

Unpublished: Not indexed and only viewable by owners, editors, and administrators when logged into LibGuides

Private: Not indexed and only available to those with a URL.

Publishing your Guide

When you create a new guide, in order to have it become visible to our users you need to change the status of the guide to "Submit for Review." Your guide will be reviewed to make sure all the necessary tagging, title format and metadata elements are in place and then its status will be changed to "Published" to make the guide visible.

STEP 1: Before publishing, make sure to preview your guide by clicking the

STEP 2: Use the drop down menu in the upper right corner to change the status of a guide.

STEP 3: Change the guide status to "Submit for Review" and click Save.

Publishing Checklist

LibGuides Account (contact person or subject librarian)

Your profile box has a photo (preferably of you) and includes your contact information (office address, email, phone number)
Your profile box is available on the main page
Your profile box is located on the left side of the page

Creating a Guide

Your guide has a friendly URL
Your pages have friendly URLs
Your guide has been assigned a subject and/or tags

Adding Content

You've reused pages, boxes, and assets when possible
You've used the A-Z Database list to link to databases (if applicable)
You've included short descriptions under your links