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Style Guide & Resuable Content

A place to find information on our overall style formatting, reusable boxes and pages, and tutorials

Overview

To create a brand new Book asset from scratch and add it to your guide:

  1. While editing your guide, click on the Add / Reorder button at the bottom of the box where you want to add the asset.
  2. Select Book from the Catalog from the dropdown menu.

Selecting Book from the Catalog from the Add/Reorder dropdown

  1. If you have the ISBN for the book you want to add, enter it in the ISBN field and click the Get Book Info button.
    • If data for this book is available from Bowker, it will automatically be inserted into your book asset.
    • Similarly, if cover art is available from Syndetics, it will also be added.
  2. Enter or edit the book's Title, Author/Editor, Publication Date, Call Number, and URL.
    • When a URL is provided, the book's title will serve as a link to that URL (use Koha public catalog link). 
  3. If you would like to add a description of the book, enter it in the Description field.
    1. To display additional descriptive information about the book, click on the Bowker Enhanced Content tab and make your selections.
  4. To customize how the description appears on the page, choose your preference from the Description Display options.
    • Display beneath item title: this will display the full text of the description on the page, right below the title.
    • Hover over item title: this will display the description in a popover when a user hovers over the title.
    • Hover over "info" icon: an info () icon will appear next to the title. When a user hovers over it, a popover will appear displaying the description.
    • Hide description: if you would like to hide the description, select this option.
  5. Use the Position option to choose where the new asset should be inserted in the box. (Don't worry: you can always reorder it later.)
  6. In the Cover Art box, you can view, change, resize, or remove the book's cover art image. Use the ALT Text field to customize the alternative text for the image.
    • None: if you select this option, no cover art will be displayed for this book. (This is the default.)
    • Syndetics: this will display cover art from Syndetics for the provided ISBN, if available.
    • Default - White: this will display a white placeholder image that says "Cover Image Unavailable".
    • Default - Blue: this will display a generic blue book cover with a black spine (similar to a physical book dummy).
    • Other: this will allow you to enter a URL to your own image. This could be the URL of an image from your catalog, or an image you've uploaded to your LibGuides Image Manager library.
  7. Optionally, you can assign resource icons to your book. Click on the Assign Resource Icons panel to select the icons to use.
  8. Click the Save button.

*You can also add a previously created "Book Asset" by selecting "Reuse existing Book" and typing out the book title, similar to searching for an existing database!