LibGuides @NCC: Getting Started: Help & More Info

This guide provides NCC LibGuides authors with the basic information needed to create a new guide. It does not attempt to cover everything you can do with LibGuides or to answer every question you may have.

The sources on this page provide other means of getting help and ideas for your guides. They include both internal and external sources, and more will be added over time.

Don't forget some of the best sources: your NCC and SUNY LibGuides colleagues. You can always ask me for help but be sure to lean on and learn from one another as well.

- Marsha

Basic Standards

and or & = use and
catalog or catalogue= use catalog
e-book or ebook = use e-book
e-journal or ejournal = use e-journal
e-mail or email = use email
internet or Internet = use Internet
web or Web = use web
Nascat or NASCAT = use NASCAT

Review Process

Reviewing your guide:

• To see what your guide will look like when published, click on Preview on the yellow command bar at the top of the page. The preview page will open in a new window.

Getting feedback:

• When you are ready for others to review your guide:
  • Change the status from Unpublished to Private.
    • Click on Status on the command bar.
    • Select Change Guide Status.
    • Select Change to Private from the status drop-down menu (the bottom menu in the box).
    • Click on Save Status.
  • Send a request for feedback, with the URL, to me or a colleague on the Library Curriculum Committee. (Make sure the URL has "...content.php..." in it, not "..."aecontent.php..."; the aecontent is the edit mode.)

Publishing your guide:

• At the end of the feedback period and after you've made any changes, you can publish the guide.
  • Give it a "friendly URL."
    • Click on Status on the command bar
    • Select Change Guide Status.
    • Enter a single word or words running together in the top box. (It will be appended to ncc.libguides.com as the friendly URL for the guide. (i.e. ncc.libguides.com/communication)
    • Assign the guide to a subject catetgory. (Also done by clicking on Change Guide Status.)
  • Change the status from Private to Published.
  • Optional: Add tags (under Guide Options at the top right). (Do not add tags until you are ready to publish.)
  • Send a message to the LibGuides Administrator that the new guide has been created.