I just read the following article on best practices for
Libguides:
Ouellelte, D. (2011). Subject Guides in Academic
Libraries: A User-Centred Study of Uses and Perceptions. Canadian Journal Of
Information & Library Sciences, 35(4), 436-451.
Purpose and context: The articles I skimmed in the
literature indicate that most Libguides users have the same
mission/vision/definition problem we do – they are used for courses,
disciplines, entire library websites, information literacy tutorials, library
marketing, you name it.
Design of content: the focus group results I conducted in
May replicated (almost) everything in the article—and I’ve modified my guides
accordingly to the best of my ability. One of the things that is disabled in
GVSU's Libguides that students told me they wanted (& so did students in the
article) is left navigation, instead of tabs across the top.
The article has
a lot of very useful student feedback on design.
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