NU SpringShare Playbook
Overview
Viewing and Opening Guides
Click on Content > Guides to view a list of all NU guides.
You can open any published or private guide, see the guide owner and filter and sort the list in various ways.
You can open your own guide for editing (or delete it) (Admins can edit or delete any guides)
Easiest way to find a guide > enter a keyword or staff name in the box at top of that column.
You can view a list of only the published guides, or one person's guides or list guides by type - e.g. Subject, General Purpose or Internal guides.
Default view shows 25 guides per page, or scroll to bottom of list and increase the number of guides per page (i.e. to 50 or 100 guides per page).
To access your own guides - 2 options
1 - Open your guide from the Content > Guides screen. Start typing your guide or own name in the search box. When your guide displays in the list - to open the guide click on the Edit icon under ACTIONS. Tip: to open guide in a new tab, center click or right click on the edit icon.
WARNING - you can also Delete your guide from this screen - be careful!
OR
2 - On your LibGuides Home page > LibGuides Shortcuts > Edit Existing Guide
The default order here is Published guides first, then Private and lastly Unpublished guides.
Note - Opening guides this way will always open the guide in the current tab - there is no option to center or right click to open in a new tab.
Guide Types:
- General purpose- explanatory guides, tool related guides, services guides, resource center guides
- Course Guide- Course guides
- Subject Guide- for guides related to degree programs and specializations
- Topic Guide- do not use, use general purpose instead
- Internal Guide- for internal use only, will not be displayed to students and faculty. Process and how-to for admin of Springshare.
- Template Guide- for templates only - are the blueprint guides set as template guides? How do we use?
LibGuides Groups
The NU Library has several Groups they use to manage different LibGuide content (How-To, Course Guides, Services, etc).
Each Resource Center has a Group created to house related LibGuides, provide a Resource Center homepage, and custom styling and breadcrumbs.
