This document provides tips for updating subject guides, including updating resources like OneSearch and AskUsNow, and deleting unused widgets. It recommends using paragraph, bullet point, or numbered list formatting to keep guides mobile-friendly, and avoiding tables and large images. When reusing or borrowing boxes and pages from other guides, contributors should check the "make a copy" box or ask permission from content creators. Embedding videos or widgets can make guides more engaging, and media codes can easily be copied and pasted into boxes. New guides can optionally be tweeted to spread the word.

1. Tips and Updates

2. We all need to update our subject guides for …
 OneSearch
 Maryland AskUsNow
 Current content
We can delete …
 The Research Port Cross Search widget
 The WorldCat FSU box
This will require a separate meeting in August

3. Our LibGuides are part of our mobile website
platform. Formatting is important to keep the
guides mobile-ready.
 Use paragraph format, bullet points, or
numbered lists
 Avoid the use of tables, especially pasted
from MSWord
 Avoid manual tabbing
 Avoid overly large images

5. When adding a box to a LibGuide, you have the
option to reuse an existing box from another guide.
Make sure to check the “make a copy” box to put a
copy of the box you can edit on your LibGuide

6. You have the option to borrow pages and boxes
from the entire LibGuide community, but only if
“Community” is selected when you create a new
LibGuide:
Make sure to
ask the
content
creator for
permission
when
borrowing!

7. Embedding videos and widgets can make your guide
more dynamic and appealing and it’s easy to do if
you select the right box type when you add a new
box!

8. Media Sources like YouTube, SlideShare, etc.
give you code to copy in order to embed in
your LibGuide. Just paste it in!

9. When you publicly publish a new LibGuide, you
have the option to spread the news of Twitter!
Ask me for our
Twitter
password!