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LibGuides Repository

This guide collects commonly used resources.

Using the Repository

Purpose:

The LibGuides Repository is the main bank of library learning objects. Its purpose is to facilitate quick and easy guide construction to support online learning and to ensure learners are exposed to consistent language and accessible learning objects as they develop their information literacy. Having a centralized mapping location also helps the Teaching and Learning team manage online instructional content, ensuring that materials meet a high standard for web accessibility, functionality, and relevance.

Using the Repository:

Boxes and objects in this guide should be mapped into your course and subject guides, so that instructional content and links will be uniformly updated and ready for guide users. Discipline-specific boxes and resources should be maintained in personal guides or repository accounts; the purpose of the repository is to house scalable content. If you'd like to suggest a box or resource to be added to the repository, contact Heidi at hanoszko@uwm.edu

LibGuide Basics

What is an Asset?

Assets are reusable content (widgets, links, databases, books from the catalog, documents).

Reusing Assets

There are two ways to reuse an asset.

  • Mapping: Connects the reused asset to the original. Any updates made to the original will automatically appear in the mapped assets. Mapping is the default when you reuse a link.
  • Copying: the original and the duplicate are not connected and any changes made to the original will not appear in the duplicate.

For more information on mapping and copying, check out Springshare's explanation of mapping versus copying an asset.

Asset Quirks

  • Assets may only be edited by the original creator (or an admin), even if they are used by multiple guide owners.
  • An asset that has been deleted from all guides will remain in the asset management system. These assets are listed as having zero mappings. If you would like to erase them completely, you will need to do so in the asset manager.

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