Best Practices Guide: Checklist

Tips, suggestions, templates, and best practices for creating a LibGuide.

LibGuides Maintenance and Publishing Checklist

LibGuides Maintenance and Revisions: Suggested Schedule
Also contains the LibGuides Publishing Checklist.

Checklist

Create a reminder in your calendar to review links and content on a regular basis
Colors and fonts are standard
Tab titles are standard and do not wrap
Columns have been adjusted to avoid empty spaces
Librarian profile is available on main page (with picture or image)
LibGuide has a standard title and URL
All external web links are set to open in a new page
Links to books have cover images
Websites have brief annotations
Lists are limited to 5 - 7 resources or less (or broken up and grouped thematically)
Online resources (excluding databases) are in link format not embedded within Rich Text Boxes (so that the link checker can be used)
Consider adding a backup editor
All text boxes have been proofread for spelling and grammar

Last Updated: Feb 21, 2021 12:26 PM
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