CofC LibApps Best Practices: LibApps Profiles

To change your profile information, be sure you are in LibApps, not LibGuides. Switch between Springshare products by clicking on the blue rectangle in the top left. Once you are in LibApps, you'll see My Profile in the orange menu bar.

Box Title

• Title, Full Name, or both

Box Contents

• Professional looking headshot: CofC offers professional headshots a couple times each year--watch your email for when these events occur.
  • Resize your photo to a width of 225 pixels and save it as a JPEG. Lock the aspect ratio when resizing to keep the image proportional. If your photo is a CofC  headshot, this will result in a photo with dimensions of about 225x281. If you do not have image editing software, you can resize and save as JPEG with an online tool such as resizeimage.net. 
• Contact Information: Include phone number, email, and physical location
• Schedule Appointment button if you do research consultations. Instructions are below. 
• Social media -- optional, links to various social media sites if you need them
  • Facebook: CofC Libraries: https://www.facebook.com/CofCLibraries
  • Twitter: CofC Libraries: http://twitter.com/CofCLibraries
  • Youtube: CofC Libraries (Access & Instruction Desk): https://www.youtube.com/user/CofCReference
  • CofC Libraries News RSS feed: http://library.cofc.edu/about/news-events/feed/

Do not include the Ask Us chat widget in your profile box. It pushes your contact info down the page, making it hard to find. It is also a little misleading because someone initiating a chat this way will not be able to reach you specifically. Previous instructions said to include the chat widget--if you had done so, please remove it. 

Use these instructions to add a Schedule Appointment button to your profile. 

• Open LibCal and go to Appointments. 
• Select the Widget/Embed Code tab.
• Change the Button Text Color to #FFFFFF (white). 
• Change the Button Background Color to #660000 (maroon).
• Change the Button Border Color to #000000 (black).
• DO NOT check the box to include jQuery Library.
• Click inside the Embed Code box to highlight the code. Copy and paste this into your LibApps profile, under LibCal Widget Code. 

• When you add a profile to a guide, leave the title blank and LibGuides will pull in the title you've set for your Profile Box. If you've set your Profile Box Title as your name and you'd prefer the box on the guide to have a more general title, you could use Librarian or Archivist.
• Please do not use your own name as the Box Title for a specific guide--this must be changed manually and it is difficult to track when guides are reassigned to new owners. If you want your own name to appear as the box title, set this up in your LibApps Profile, instead of on an individual guide. 
• For similar reasons, select Display the guide owner's profile instead of selecting your own name, unless you have a good reason. Leaving it set to the guide owner means that the profile will automatically be changed if the guide is reassigned to a different owner.