Launching an Intranet in LibGuides CMS at the Georgia Southern University Libraries

During the 2021-22 academic year, the Georgia Southern University Libraries launched an intranet within the LibGuides CMS (LibGuides) platform. While LibGuides had been in use at Georgia Southern for more than 10 years, it was used most heavily by the reference librarians. Library staff in other roles tended not to have accounts, nor to have used LibGuides. Meanwhile, the Libraries had a need for a structured intranet, and the larger university did not provide enterprise level software intended for intranet use. This paper describes launching an intranet, including determining what software features are necessary and reworking software and user permissions to provide these features, change management by restructuring permissions within an established and heavily used software platform, and training to introduce libraries employees to the intranet. Now, more than a year later, the intranet is used within the libraries for important functions, like training, sharing information about resources available to employees, for coordinating events and programming, and to provide structure to a document repository in Google Shared Drive. Employees across the libraries use the intranet to more efficiently complete necessary work. This article steps through desired features and software settings in LibGuides to support use as an intranet.