UBC LibGuides: Guidelines

Use the Tableau report to easily locate all guides that you own and edit, as well as their usage statistics

Link to Tableau report (VPN Required)

Based on your work with students and instruction this past year, is there anything you know you want to change or update? If so, is there opportunity to collaborate on revising a guide with a subject counterpart on the Vancouver/Okanagan campus, or in another branch where you know there is overlap?

If a guide is no longer being used, it is okay to retire it! You can make it private (the direct link will still work), or unpublished (it will be hidden from public view and search engines)

If you're keeping the guide and simply want to make sure it is in good shape, follow the steps outlined here.

1. Ensure all of your guides have contact information that follow these guidelines and locate contact info on a "Contact for research help" page
2. Remove any unnecessary CC license boxes, as all guides are now licensed through the footer
3. Adjust your landing page so that it is titled Overview and provides brief contextual information
4. If applicable, relabel a page as Key resources to help student prioritize what to read first
5. Read through the Accessibility and Writing guidelines and adjust accordingly
6. If you have an "embedded" side navigation drop down menu with a little arrow that must be clicked to view the page options, please remove it, as it is not best practice from an accessibility standpoint

Context for this checklist is provided in a LibGuides CMS Team / TLT Lunch & Learn training session recording from June 23

The link checker is a built in feature of LibGuides CMS that allows you to locate broken links. The link checker searches all of the guides you own (not edit) with all publication statuses (including unpublished guides).

Springshare: Link checker instructions

LibGuides CMS has a search and replace tool that is only available to Admin users. If you notice that you have many broken links across multiple guides that are all pointing to the same resource, reach out to the LibGuides CMS team and we will help you out! lg@lists.ubc.ca 

Springshare: Search & replace tool

Review the accessibility best practices and writing guidelines in this guide and apply them to your guides. 

Additional helpful questions:

Do all of your guides have a "Contact for research help" box following the templates provided in this guide? 

Do you have an AskAway chat box added? You can reuse the box on the Reusable content page in this guide

Do your guides provide brief explanatory context to aid students in conducting research?

Does the main page of your guide follow the general outline and formatting provided in the Economics research guide?

For any new content that you want to add, is there existing content you can reuse, rather than starting from scratch?

Is there someone you would like to collaborate with on revising/ consolidating guides?