We would like to acknowledge the University of British Columbia Library's excellent LibGuides @ UBC as the inspiration for much of the content on this guide!
To create a new guide, log in to LibApps and, in the LibGuides Shortcuts box, choose "Create Guide."
You can either create a guide from scratch by choosing "Start Fresh," or you can make a copy of an existing guide to use as a template.
You can also visit Springshare's Get Help with LibGuides for more information and find step-by-step instructions for creating guides from scratch or from an existing guide.
General Purpose: The default guide type and a useful category for guides that do not fall into the other types listed below, e.g. Fake News, 3D Printing, International Games Day @ SJSU
Course Guides: Guides created for a specific course, e.g. ART100W
Subject Guides: A starting point for research on a specific academic discipline, department, program, or major, e.g. Child & Adolescent Development.
Topic Guides: Guides created about a specific research topic, e.g. Cybersecurity or Clinical Trials.
Internal Guides: For guides intended only for internal use, e.g. this guide! These guides do not appear in SJSU Library's research guide lists, but are accessible to those with the guide's url.
Template Guide: Some librarians create templates to make creating future guides more efficient, and these can be categorized as template guides. We currently do not have any template guides.
This is where they will appear:
Giving your guide a friendly URL can make it easier to find:
Subjects and tags are assigned to guides for organization and discoverability.
Subjects: Assigning a subject to your guide will make it appear under the appropriate subject on the LibGuides homepage. Assigning subjects also makes guides discoverable in OneSearch. Subject names are predetermined; you won't be able to create a new one.
Tags: You can assign any tags you'd like to your guides to aid with discoverability, but there are two that are important to use if you want your guides to appear in the Research Guides widget on the library website:
Springshare help: Assign subjects & tags to a guide
Although each LibGuide has only one owner, multiple users can still collaborate on guides. By default, regular-level users cannot edit guides they do not own, but if they are added as editors, they can do almost everything that guide owners can on a guide.
More information is available from the Springshare LibGuides Help: Assigning editors to a guide.
Click on the Guide Layout dropdown and select Guide Navigation Layout to edit the settings for the left navigation menu:
The options are to show all subpages in the navigation, and to show box-level navigation for the current page:
When you create a new guide, the default status is unpublished so the guide is not available for the public to view. When you're ready to share your guide:
