Skip to Main Content

LibGuides Standards and Best Practices

Overview

There are two different fields in your LibGuides Profile in which you can specify some form of your job title:

  • A title for your system-generated Profile landing page (see Allison's profile as an example).
    • Examples of where Profile pages are linked from include clicking on your Profile box image when it appears on a guide you own and the "Your Librarian" links in Research by Subject accordions.
  • A title for your system-generated Profile box, which displays on many guides (see Patricia's *Music guide as an example).
    • By default, LibGuides will populate a new guide you create with your profile box.
    • Note:
      While you can override the Profile box title in your account settings on a per box basis, by clicking the "Edit this box" pencil icon, if you do that it will be very difficult to manage that exception going forward. Overriding the Profile box title breaks  LibGuides' default behavior to automatically display the guide owner's profile box title. So if a guide you own is transferred to another person, that person's profile box would display on that guide, but your box title exception would display above the new guide owner's profile.  This could lead to a picture of one person displayed below the name of another person. These situations are difficult to track down (how will you remember all of your box title exceptions?) so it's best to think through a sustainable strategy for your profile titles.

Editing Your Profile Titles

Here is how to edit these two title fields (which you can use to display some form of your job title):

  1. In LibGuides staff mode, click the edit profile link on the far right of the orange toolbar in the staff mode banner area of the page header.

My Account edit page with a red arrow pointing at the edit profile link

 

  1. Under the "Additional Settings" heading, edit the "Title" field to define your LibGuides Profile title.

My Account staff edit page with a red arrow pointing at the text edit box for the Title field

 

  1. To navigate to your My Profile page, click the "My Profile" link (preceded by a smiley face icon) in the orange toolbar in the staff mode banner area of the page.

 

  1. Under the "Title / Pronouns / Image" heading, edit the "Box Title" field to define your LibGuides Profile box title.

My Profile edit page with red arrow pointing at the Box Title field under the "Title / Pronouns / Image" heading