Welcome to the Tools Guide. Here, you will find some tools that the LibGuides Administrators hope will be useful to you. When using these boxes on your guides, please "link" them instead of copying so that the boxes will be up-to-date.
Those who create and edit LibGuides will also want to refer to the LibGuides LibGuide, which includes documentation for using the system and also our local LibGuides standards and conventions.
With the closing of each academic year, it is ideal for us to prepare for the next academic year. In this spirit, we would like to focus your attention on one of the important resources that serve as instructional aids, and helpful reference points for our colleagues - our research guides. Over time, we have amassed a multitude of guides. It is time that we begin to take stock of these resources and determine how these guides have served us and how they can serve us better in the future. As we face staffing shortages and changes to our duties and responsibilities, it is necessary that we collectively engage in an effort to streamline our research guides and improve our overall design choices to enhance the user experience.
Each quarter, please review the guides you own. Update your guides regularly. Delete guides that are no longer needed.
Note that our local practice is to use one of the two side-navigation templates. However, we have left this guide with top navigation so that you can more easily browse the different boxes that are available to use on your guides.
For subject and course guides you must have your profile box displayed on the first page of the guide.
It is not required on lower-level pages in the guide, but you may include it is you want.
This guide was last updated by Annie Platoff on 1/9/2025.