LibGuides allows you to easily create a copy of any research guide...even if that guide exists in another system. This is a very useful way to share information with colleagues or to copy a guide from one site to another.

1. Login to your LibGuides system.
2. Select Create New Guide from the My Admin screen.
3. On the Create New Guide screen, select the last option: Use a guide from another institution as a template (1).
4. Enter the URL of the guide that you want to copy into the Template guide url box (2).
   Please note, if you are going to copy a guide created by another user, it is recommended that you first contact them to ask their permission.
5. Enter the new guide title and description (3).
6. Click the Create New Guide button to copy the guide to your new site.

After the guide has been copied, you will automatically be taken to your new guide, where you will find all of the same pages and content boxes that were in the original guide. (Please see notes below.)

Notes:

• Since this process creates a copy of the original guide, any changes made to the original will not be reflected in the copied guide, and vice-versa.
• If any boxes or links are "linked" (meaning the creator of the guide added a linked box to the page or reused a link in their system), the best and safest thing for you to do is recreate those boxes (so you can edit them) and then remove the "linked" box from the guide.
• If you are using this process to "move" a guide from your demo account to your live account, please remember to return to the demo system and delete the original guide if it is no longer needed.
• After the guide has been copied, you can reassign the guide to another user (if needed) by going to the Admin Toolbox area from the My Admin screen, and using the Change Guide Owner function.

Answered by Anna Burke (328) on Nov 25, 2009Email answer