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Hi Deb,

Welcome to the LibGuides community! With LibGuides, your library becomes part of our global community where more than 2,200 libraries and 32,000 educators share content, ideas, and collaborate on creating research guides. Here is the URL and login information for your dedicated and customized LibGuides demo system:

URL: @http://padc.libguides.com/ Login: dkachel@mansfield.edu Pass: dkpdc667sg

Your demo system has been configured with the LibGuides Add-on module, which adds the following three pieces of functionality that are not included with the standard LibGuides license:

a) The ability to upload images from librarians’ computers directly onto the LibGuides server to be included inside their guides. b) The ability for admins to get weekly XML exports of their institution’s entire libguides content. c) The ability for individual librarians to create local HTML-based backups of their guides (on their computer).

We have created a guide in our LibGuides Help system that should help you get started with the LibGuides software - @http://help.springshare.com/intro. We recommend that you read through the materials on that guide, especially the “Shared Resources” page which contains links to guidelines created by other LibGuides Community members. If you have created guides within the LibGuides demo system that you would like to copy to your dedicated site, please follow the instructions found at @http://libguidesfaq.com/a.php?qid=1988. Once you have copied your guides over to your new site, please delete the originals to help keep the demo site clean and running properly for the rest of our user community. To create user accounts for your colleagues, please see the instructions found at @http://libguidesfaq.com/a.php?qid=3799.

You may also want to become a member of the Springshare Lounge located at http://springsharelounge.com. The Lounge is a place for LibGuides users to exchange information, tips, ideas, and to help make LibGuides a better system for our entire community. Please invite all your LibGuides account holders to join the Lounge as well and participate in any discussions they are interested in.

If there is anything that I can do to help you get started with LibGuides, please don't hesitate to ask. Thank you and have fun!