NU SpringShare Playbook
Best practices and guidance for creating and maintaining LibApps and guides at NU. Created by cross-functional resource centers.
Create a New Guide
Create a New Guide
- Go to LibGuides Home
- Select Create Guide – Select the appropriate template guide (Blueprint/Storage guide for your Resource Center)
- Assign your guide the following: Give your guide a name, Guide Type: Subject Guide, Share guide content? Community
- Click Create Guide
Mapped Pages and Boxes
Note: there are many boxes in this guide that are mapped to the STORAGE GUIDE. If you see this icon 
that means it is mapped. These boxes can be deleted, but not edited in the new guide.
- To edit a mapped box, go to the STORAGE GUIDE and make any edits to the box there – these edits will filter to all locations where the box is mapped.
- To create a box to be used in all guides, that may need to be edited later, go to the STORAGE GUIDE and create the box and contents there.
Guide Home – Areas to Edit
- URL – create a friendly URL using your guide’s specialization name (Resource Centers, if the guide is a subset of your center consider hierarchy. For example if Zoom is a subguide for the CTL, then the custom guide URL should be "ctl/zoom")
- Add Subject(s) – To add a subject not listed go to Admin > Metadata & URLs (verify with governance - currently limited to set Library topics)
- Home Page box – edit/add your specialization name
- Start Your Research Here! box – cannot be edited because it is mapped to Storage Guide (May not apply to Resource Center)
- Librarian profile – click the Gear icon to change the profile. (May not apply to Resource Center)
