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Research Guides: Guidelines for Creating/Revising Guides: Reuse it!

Tips, suggestions, templates and best practices for creating libguides

Reuse it!

 

Almost everything in the LibGuides system is reusable - guides, pages, boxes, and individual content items. It will save time and effort when creating your guides by reusing existing content. There are two kinds of reuse:

  • Mapping / linking: this means that your reused versions are tied to the original. Changes you make to the original will update any "mapped" version. This is great for things like library hours, contact information, database widgets, etc.
  • Copying: the copied version is independent from the original. If you change one, it doesn't change the other.
Reusability by Content Type
  Map Copy
Guides NO YES
Pages YES YES
Boxes YES YES
Databases YES NO
Other Content Items
(Widgets, Books, etc.)
YES YES