The LibGuides Guide

You can use this guide as a how to when creating a new guide. This list can serve as a final quality assurance check list for you to make sure you have your guide optimally set up.

• LibGuide type
• Friendly URL
• Subject Tags
• Pages are named accurately
• Pages are ordered logically
• All resources you've linked out to are created with the proper asset type
• You've used Gallery and Tabbed boxes are strategically with the user in mind
• Major content is in the main content column
• Only navigation, contact information, and disclaimers are in the left side column

A LibGuide, like all online content, can get stale after so long. When a user perceives the content to be outdated either through broken links or references to years or cultural events long past, they lose trust in the rest of the content. This is why its necessary to do an annual review of all content on your LibGuides. Here are some things to check in your annual quality assurance

• Every link goes to where you intended. URLs change and that can either kill the link or redirect the user to a page you weren't intending
• All content is still relevant to the field
• Check for any accessibility issues
  • All visual elements contain alternative text
  • Headings still follow hierarchical structures
  • Lists are formatted with either a bulleted list or a numbered list