LibGuides Best Practices

Best practices guide authors on creating course, subject, and how do I guides.

Questions?

Jackie Sipes - jsipes@temple.edu

Brian Boling - bboling@temple.edu

Caitlin Shanley - cshanley@temple.edu

Usability testing Round 1 Fall 2015
Full report from round 1 of usability testing on guides

User Experience is a Social Justice Issue
Code4Lib journal article on the importance of seeing library technologies through the perspectives of our users.
Why We Do Usability Testing
Web Services Librarian at Grand Valley State University on why he does usability testing on the library's website, April 2011
Creating Instructionally Robust Psychology Research Guides
Librarians at UIC created redesigned LibGuides to better support ACRL Psychology Information Literacy Standards.
LibGuides: Pedagogy to Oppress?
Really interesting article critiquing LibGuides (not the system itself, but how we tend to conceptualize and design guides).