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LNDL Libguide Template & Toolkit

Maintaining Your LibGuides

  • Make use of the LibGuides link checker feature twice a year to ensure that all your links are active.
  • Before the beginning of each semester, review all guides to see if there are any resources (databases, ebooks, etc), that can be added or removed from the guide.
  • Each time a course is being offered, allow the instructor to review any relevant course guides so that he or she can suggest any updates.
  • Promptly remove database links to resources that we no longer subscribe to.
  • Check your guide on multiple devices with different screen sizes to ensure that your guide functions well and important content is still on top.
  • Shrinking and expanding your browser window can show a similar effect of how your guide will appear on a smaller or narrower screen.
  • When identical material is called for in multiple guides at the box or page level, consider re-using entire boxes or pages.
  • Consider reusing content and links from your colleagues' guides. Look for timely, properly formatted and accessible content to reuse.
  • For more information on reusing content boxes, see the "Mapped & Copied Assets" tab on the Structure & Layout page of this guide.

 

  • Guide authors should continue to monitor new and changed resources for inclusion in their Research Guides. 
  • Keep guides in mind whenever:
    • A new database (or link change) is announced.
    • New editions of books (especially reference books) become available.

If a guide is no longer relevant, or was created for a class that is no longer taught, then consider changing its status to private. 

Menu to access guide status options

 

Changing the status of the guide

A private guide is preferable to an unpublished guide because anyone with the guide URL will still have access to it. Unpublished guides are hidden from all users.