Tisch Library website documentation manual

This manual provides guidelines for maintaining information on the Tisch Library website, and documentation for creating and editing content on the Tisch site. You can also view step-by-step training videos on how to add and edit content.  (Disclaimer: These videos are out of date. Update coming soon.)

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Last update: July 2023

Table of contents

Policies & Style Guide

1. Guidelines for maintaining information on the Tisch website. Includes:
   • Page ownership
   • Content audits
   • Adding, deleting, or modifying content
2. Tisch Library Style Guide

Creating and editing content on the Tisch website

1. Getting started. Includes:
   • The difference between your Drupal profile and Staff profile
   • How to log into the Tisch website
   • Staff profiles
2. What can be edited vs. can't
3. Content types
4. Entering content
   1. The text editor. Includes:
      • Inserting media
        • Images
        • Documents
        • Remotely-hosted videos
      • Creating anchors
      • Inserting iframes
   2. Special paragraph types
5. Editing content
   • Editing existing content. Includes
     • Revisions
   • Editing branch library homepages. Includes:
     • DDS
     • Music
     • SMFA
   • Editing content on specific pages. Includes:
     • Library jobs for students
     • Connect with a librarian
     • Staff profile liaison, service & focus tags
     • Bookplates honoring graduating student assistants
     • Website image credits
6. Adding new content
   1. Add new content to the site. Includes:
      • The URL path for a page
      • Related content
   2. Details for adding specific types of content. Includes:
      • Basic page
      • News
      • Events
      • Workshops
      • Subject guides
      • Explore Tisch & Exhibits
        • Explore Tisch feature
        • Featured books & media ("booklists")
        • Physical or online exhibits
      • Alerts
      • Hours
7. Best practices for linking to library resources. Includes:
   • Creating proxied links to databases
   • Creating proxied links to journals, articles, ebooks & book chapters

Training videos

(Disclaimer: These videos are out of date. Update coming soon.)

• Adding a new basic page to the website
• Staff profiles
• News
• Featured books & media
• Explore Tisch
• Subject guides

Getting help

You can contact your department’s Web Team representative or get in touch with the chair(s) at any time if you have questions about managing content on the Tisch site.

The Web Team can also help facilitate communication with the LTS Web Developer if technical help is needed, but departments can also contact the Web Developer directly if they prefer.

Viewing content on the old Tisch Library site

If you need to refer to a page on the old Tisch website, there are two ways to see the old site:

1. Browse the web archive of tischlibrary.tufts.edu collected by TARC. Choose a date to view the site prior to the launch of the new website (August 6, 2021).
2. Enter a link to a specific page from the old site in the Wayback Machine.