New content boxes

The notes from the last LibGuides Committee meeting are now on JustUs for your information and/or action.

Many new content boxes were discussed and most have been given the OK for adding to your guides now or in the future. Some need further development when we have time, but feel free to use them now. Here's a summary of new content that you might like to add to your existing or guides under-development. If you're going to use any of it please link to it in the A-Z Template so that you can take advantage of any updates in future.

JCU images
Find maps
Find conference proceedings
Find government information
Find newspaper articles
Use reference materials
Search all JCU LibGuides [widget that searches full text]
Book chapters APA 5th
Book chapters Harvard
About taking notes
About reading
Tropicat subject search [This one needs editing for your discipline]
Getting started – Journal articles [This one needs editing for your discipline]
Quick eReference
Search Tropicat
JCU Bookshop
Working with Excel
APA style blog

Thanks to all the creative souls who have developed this new content or who have spotted it on someone else's guide and reproduced it (with permission I'm sure) for JCU students. If anyone else has new content they'd like to share please do it via this blog or tell me so I can add it to the LibGuides meeting agenda for the next meeting.

If anyone has comments or questions about any of this new content please discuss it via this blog.

Books & Readings: Search Tropicat

The Search Tropicat content box in the A-Z Template has been revised so that it:
- includes a search box
- includes help if needed
- includes info for off-campus users

This means that we no longer need the "How to use the Library catalogue" box because it's content has all been moved to the "Search Tropicat" box.

I've checked everyone's guides and your "Search Tropicat" boxes are all linked to the A-Z Template. This means I can delete the "How to use the Library catalogue" box from the A-Z Template and although you lose one box, you don't lose any information.

If anyone has any objections to this or has ideas about improving the "Search Tropicat" box please post it to this blog for discussion.

Link to whole page

Over time we have generated a lot of generic content so it may be sensible in some instances to link to a whole page in the A-Z Template, rather than linking to individual content boxes. The following pages are probably suitable for this:
About the Library
How do I find computing guides
How do I find lecture notes and readings
How do I find special collections
How do I start my assignment
All Subject Guides
+ a few other How do I...? pages when they are further developed.

Please don't do this if you feel you can add discipline-specific value with your own content boxes or by tweaking a generic content box.

Here's how do do it:
1. Add/Edit Pages
2. Copy Existing Page
3. Create a linked page that always shows the same content as the original page
4. Select the guides that contains the page that you wish to reuse ... (usually A-Z Template)
5. Select the page you want to reuse ... (e.g., About the Library)
6. Copy page

If you link to a whole page you will not be able to add extra content boxes, but any changes in the generic content boxes will be automatically updated in your guide.