Gallery Box

A Gallery Box is a special type of box which allows the research guide creator to provide a formatted, scrolling slideshow of multiple items with captions related to the topic of the guide. The display of the Gallery Box is controlled by the CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) created for Library of Congress LibGuides. You will not need to change the settings for the Gallery Box, because they will be overridden by the Library of Congress styling. This styling not only controls the behavior of the gallery when viewed on your computer, but also on mobile devices.

Video Tutorial - Adding an Image Gallery

Begin by watching a short video tutorial that provides instructions for adding an image gallery to a LibGuide. This video is 03:46 in length.

View all LibGuides Tutorials on the LS Training website.

Adding a Gallery Box

To add a Gallery Box, you will need to add a new box to your page.

Select + Add Box - Column 1
In the "Add Box" window, give the box a name; from the "Type" drop-down window select "Gallery"; make other selections in the window as appropriate
Your Gallery Box is now created, but you will now need to add content to the box

To add items to your Gallery Box:

Click on the "Gear" icon in the upper right corner of the box to add content to the box
Click on the Add New Slide button and select the appropriate item from the drop-down menu

Adding Images to a Gallery Box

From the drop-down menu, select "Image" to add a slide image to Gallery Box. Complete the following fields in the Add Slide window:

Slide image URL - use the medium-sized image from the Library's digital collections online
Link URL - use the Project One (P1) "item" record URL for the image
Slide Title - follow the standard caption format (see https://guides.loc.gov/manual/images/images-with-captions)
Do not provide Image Alt Text (the Slide Title serves as the image caption) or Slide Details (this information will not display)
You must change the following items in the Gallery Settings (leave all other settings at the default)
- Slides per row - 1
- Slides to show - 3
- Slides to scroll - 3

Add additional images to the Gallery Box following the same steps as outlined above.

Example Gallery Box

"I've found the job where I fit best!" find your war job in industry, agriculture, business. 1943. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Julia Obear, messenger girl at the National Women's [i.e. Woman's] Party headquarters. 1922. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

[Three young women at work in an unidentified Washington, D.C. office. The girl at the left is operating an addressograph]. 1922. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Frances Benjamin Johnston, photographer. [Women coming from work, Cal.?. Store window reads T.B. Reardon, heating and plumbing]. 1903. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Frances Benjamin Johnston, photographer. Wooden Box Industry: women in work room of box factory. ca. 1910. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Section of Vital Statistics (Census). [between 1909 and 1940]. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Other Uses for the Gallery Box

The Gallery Box can also be used to highlight and display Research Guides. When adding content to the Galley Box, simply choose the option for "LibGuide" from the menu.

Then type some words from the title of the guide that you wish to include. The guide will come up automatically, using the title and description information.

Some further editing can be done to include more information for the title of the guide in the Gallery.

Gallery Box Featuring Research Guides

Television Commercials in the Moving Image Collections - This guide describes several collections of television commercials and provides search strategies for finding television advertising materials in the Library's moving image collections.

This guide describes several collections of television commercials and provides search strategies for finding television advertising materials in the moving image collections of the Library of Congress.

The National Broadcasting Company at the Library of Congress - A guide to researching the radio and television broadcasts of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) in the Library's collections.

A guide to researching the radio and television broadcasts of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) in the collections of the Library of Congress.

Women's Suffrage in the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Collections - A guide that explores the women's suffrage movement and offers an exciting glimpse into the struggle for the vote.

Presented in this guide are collection materials found in the Library's Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division that explore the Women's Suffrage movement and offer an exciting glimpse into the struggle for the vote.

LibGuides Manual