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Blueprint Guide

Please use this guide as a template to ensure new guides you create follow the Instruction, Systems, and Public Relation team's style, branding and layout best practices.

Books Box Example

Book from the Catalog assets make it easy to profile books on your guides, with each book including cover art, bibliographic info, and a description. You can also include a link to the book in your own catalog, as well as the call number. If you provide an ISBN for your book, you can automatically retrieve bibliographic and descriptive data from Bowker and cover art from Syndetics.

  • Please note that book info and/or cover art may not be available for all ISBNs.
 Book assets are not connected to your library catalog. LibGuides is not actually connected to your catalog system, so you are not limited to only books in your own collection. This also means, though, that LibGuides does not retrieve any data directly from your catalog - so the link or call number will always need to be entered manually.

To create a brand new Book asset from scratch and add it to your guide:

 

  1. While editing your guide, click on the  Add / Reorder button at the bottom of the box where you want add this.
  2. Select Book from the Catalog from the dropdown menu.

Selecting Book from the Catalog from the Add/Reorder dropdown

  1. If you have the ISBN for the book you want to add, enter it in the ISBN field and click the Get Book Info button.
    • If data for this book is available from Bowker, it will automatically be inserted into your book asset.
    • Similarly, if cover art is available from Syndetics, it will also be added. (A Syndetics subscription is not required, but you can use your own if your Admin provided your Syndetics Client ID in your LibGuides system settings.)
    • Please note: the book description is only available with LibGuides CMS.
  2. Enter or edit the book's Title, Author/Editor, Publication Date, Call Number, and URL.
    • When a URL is provided, the book's title will serve as a link to that URL.
  3. If proxy authentication is required to view the book (e.g. a link to an ebook), set the Use Proxy setting to Yes.
    • When enabled, LibGuides will automatically prepend your proxy URL to the book's URL.
    • Note: this requires your Admin to provide your library's proxy URL in your LibGuides system settings.
  4. If you would like to add a description about the book, enter it in the Description field.
  5. To customize how the description appears on the page, choose your preference from the Description Display options.
    • Display beneath item title: this will display the full text of the description on the page, right below the title.
    • Hover over item title: this will display the description in a popover when a user hovers over the title.
    • Hover over "info" icon: an info () icon will appear next to the title. When a user hovers over it, a popover will appear displaying the description.
    • Hide description: if you would like to hide the description, select this option. This will not hide the More Info field.
  6. Use the Position option to choose where the new asset should be inserted in the box. (Don't worry: you can always reorder it later.)

Creating a new Book from the Catalog asset

  1. In the Cover Art box, you can view, change, resize, or remove the book's cover art image. Use the ALT Text field to customize the alternative text for the image.
    • None: if you select this option, no cover art will display for this book. (This is the default.)
    • Syndetics: this will display cover art from Syndetics for the provided ISBN, if available.
    • Default - White: this will display a while placeholder image that says "Cover Image Unavailable".
    • Default - Blue: this will display a generic blue book cover with a black spine (similar to a physical book dummy).
    • Other: this will allow you to enter a URL to your own image. This could be the URL of an image from your catalog, or an image you've uploaded to your LibGuides Image Manager library.
  2. Optionally, you can assign resource icons to your book. Click on the Assign Resource Icons panel to select the icons to use.
  3. Click the Save button.
  4. View an example of this type of box with excerpted book assets from our extensive "book recommendations" list found on the Social Justice Resource guide:

Video Box Examples

Media/Widget assets are ideal for embedding HTML content in your guides, such as YouTube videos, search widgets, or widgets from other Springy tools (like LibCal Hours widgets, for example). Unlike Rich Text/HTML content items, Media/Widget assets are stored in your assets library. As a result, once someone creates a Media/Widget asset, it can be reused over and over in other guides.

  • These widgets are intended for embedding HTML code, including <script> and <style> elements containing JavaScript and CSS code, respectively.
  • These cannot be used to embed PHP.

VIDEO BOX OPTION #1 - Using the Media/Widget Embed:

To create a brand new Media/Widget asset from scratch and add it to your guide:

  1. While editing your guide, click on the  Add / Reorder button at the bottom of the box where you want add this.
  2. Select Media/Widget from the dropdown menu.

Selecting Media/Widget from the Add/Reorder dropdown

  1. Give your asset a name in the Name field. This is how the asset will be identified in your assets library.
  2. In the Embed Code field, enter or paste the HTML code you want to embed. Unless you're creating your own code from scratch, this will often be provided for you from the content provider or vendor.
  3. Use the Position option to choose where the new asset should be inserted in the box. (Don't worry: you can always reorder it later.)
  4. Click the Save button.

Creating a new Media/Widget asset

VIDEO BOX OPTION #2: Using Rich HTML Editor:

 

If We So Choose

This 10 minute film documentary short film introduces audiences to the people in Athens, Georgia who not only lived through Jim Crow separatism but fought against it and won. Through the lens of a little known protest demonstration at the lingo laden fast food restaurant, The Varsity.

Old South (DVD available for checkout)

In Athens, Georgia, a college fraternity traditionally known to fly the confederate flag moves to a historically black neighborhood and establishes their presence by staging an antebellum style parade. Through the perspective of local resident Hope, this film follows the neighborhood struggle over three years, while both communities fight to preserve their historical legacies against an ever evolving cultural backdrop in the South.

University Homes: Building Communities, Building Hope

This virtual exhibition from the Atlanta Housing Archives presents the history of the first federally funded public housing for African-Americans in the United States. In it, you will find never before seen images, film reels, tenant newsletters, and an oral history from one of the communities earliest residents, Janet Crawl Shortt.

Below Baldwin Documentary

As more and more universities around the United States begin opening dialogues about their historical involvement in slavery, “Below Baldwin” chronicles the series of events that sparked this conversation at UGA.

RSS box

RSS Feed assets allow you to display the contents of RSS feeds in your guides. This could include feeds from various sources, such as blogs, news sites, discovery services, or databases, to name a few.

Add a new RSS feed to a guide

To create a brand new RSS feed asset from scratch and add it to your guide:

  1. While editing your guide, click on the  Add / Reorder button at the bottom of the box where you want add this.
  2. Select RSS Feed from the dropdown menu.

Selecting RSS Feed from the Add/Reorder dropdown

  1. Give your feed a name in the Name field.
    • This is how the feed will be identified in your assets library.
  2. Enter the full URL to the RSS feed in the Feed URL field.
  3. To limit the number of posts that will display at once, enter a number in the # Items to Display field.
  4. To customize how the description of each post appears on the page, choose your preference from the Description Display options. (Note: some feed providers may display full article content in their feeds, while others only display excerpts.)
    • Display beneath item title: this will display the full text of the description on the page, right below the title.
    • Click on "info" icon: an info () icon will appear next to the title. When a user clicks it, a popover will appear displaying the description.
  5. In the Proxy Options settings, select whether or not a proxy is required to view the feed and/or its posts.
    • This RSS feed is restricted and must be read via the proxy server: select this option if the feed itself requires your proxy URL in order to display.
      • When enabled, LibGuides will automatically prepend your proxy URL to the feed URL.
      • Note: this requires your Admin to provide your library's proxy URL in your LibGuides system settings.
    • Add proxy URL to the front of the links within this feed: select this option if a user has to authenticate via your proxy before viewing a full post in your feed.
      • When enabled, LibGuides will automatically prepend your proxy URL to the URL for each RSS feed post.
      • Note: this requires your Admin to provide your library's proxy URL in your LibGuides system settings.
  6. Use the Position option to choose where the new asset should be inserted in the box. (Don't worry: you can always reorder it later.)
  7. Click the Save button.

Creating a new RSS feed asset

Here is an example of an RSS feed box that pulls recent blog posts from our Law Library Wordpress blog:

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