LibGuides Best Practices: Assets

Asset Types

Rich Text/HTML

• Your standard WYSIWYG-based rich text content item. Add your own custom HTML, images, tables, etc. The possibilities are nearly limitless.
• Note: Rich Text/HTML assets cannot be reused and are not included in the Assets repository

Database

• Add a link to a database that you have added to your A-Z list.
• Databases are managed in the Databases repository and cannot be created directly from a guide.

​Link

• Add a web link. Any link. 
• Create a brand new link or reuse on of your existing links.
• Included in Assets repository.

Media/Widget

• Add a widget for a video, search box, an iframe of another webpage, or anything else you can embed!
• Adding your widget code through this asset type (instead of adding it to the Rich Text/HTML type) allows for the widget to be reused across your system.
• Included in Assets repository.

Example of a Embedded Video

Book from the Catalog

• This one is pretty self explanatory. Add a link to a book from your catalog!
• Add a brand new book or reuse an exisitng book from your system.
• Included in Assets repository.

Document/File

• Upload a document to your guide that your users can quickly access and download.
• Files can be up to 10MB in size
• Add a brand new file or reuse an existing one from your system.
• Included in Assets repository.

RSS Feed

• Pull an RSS feed from your library's blog, a website, or something else.
• The RSS feed asset has a built-in feed validator!.

Guide List

• Quickly create a list of guides from your system.
• Manually select a list, or choose guides for subject, user or group.

Poll

• Want to share a quick poll with your users?
• You can poll a class, workshop or group that you are teaching on anything that you want.
• Define up to 10 poll choices and add an optional link for each of them.

Google Search

• Add a Google search box.
• Choose from a standard search, Google Books, Google Scholar, or Google Patents.

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In general, try not to overwhelm the user with lots of database links

In general, try not to overwhelm the user with lots of links

This widget takes the user into Browzine, to a list of Business & Economics journals.