Creating a New Library

An Author-it Library contains all of the books, objects, relationships and other information you work with. Unless you work with a variety of different standards (for different clients, for example), you will usually only need one Library. So, creating a new library is not something you will have to do often - but we need one for this Tutorial.

Note: If Author-it is already running, please close it before beginning this Tutorial.

To Create a New Library:

1. Start Author-it. The Create/Open Library window appears.

   Note: If the window does not appear it means that you have turned off the "Show Open Library Dialog" option. In this case, choose File > New Library, then go directly to Step 3.
   If the New Library command is grayed out, choose File > Close Library, then try the New Library command again, then go to Step 3.

2. Click the New Library tab. It should look something like this:

   

3. Choose the Default(A4).adl or Default(Letter).adl Library template, then choose OK. The Save New Author-it Library as window appears.

   

4. Type Tutorial as the file name for the new Library, then choose Save. A new library is created.