LibGuides How-To Guide

LibGuides makes it very easy to reuse guides, pages, boxes, and content to save you time and work in creating and maintaining your guides. You can reuse an entire guide by selecting it as a template when creating a new one, or you can reuse individual pages and boxes, as well as assets including links, databases, media/widgets, documents, books from the catalog, and more.

When reusing content, you can either map to the original item, or copy it.

If you map to a page or box, you can:

• Change the page or box title.

For more editing options, you can copy an item and:

• Change the page title and add, delete, or reorder boxes on the page.

• Change the box title and add, delete, or edit content within the box.

For commonly reused content items, see the Reusable Content subpage in this guide.

For more information on reusing pages and boxes, see Springshare's documentation:

• Reuse or copy an existing page

• Reuse or copy an existing box

Map if:

• You want to use the exact original, without editing the content within it; you can still edit the title
• You'd like your item updated automatically when edits are made to the original

Copy if:

• You want to use another page or box as a template, but you want to add or edit content within it
• You don't want the new item to be updated when the original item is edited