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Creating a LibGuide

This guide will help you design an accessible, user-friendly LibGuide.

Guide Structure

Everything Together

guide is composed of one or more pages that are each made up of content boxes which contain content items such as textboxesimages, or assets like link assetsdatabase assets, or books from the catalog, among others.

visual of the basic elements of a LibGuide and how they relate to each other

A Guide

Here is the Finance guide.

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A Page

This is the Introduction page of the of the Finance guide.

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Content Boxes

Here you can see the individual content boxes that make up the Introduction page of the Finance guide.

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Content Items

The information within a content box is called a content item which could be a number of things from textboxes, images, or assets.

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