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LibGuide Author Style Guide

Preferred practices for LibGuide authors

What's in this guide

This guide provides recommendations for creating useful, accessible, and mobile-friendly LibGuides.  Use the tabs to the left, or the links below to navigate.

Why LibGuides?

Library Faculty  use LibGuides to share information and resources. Guides can be organized by class or subject. LibGuides are a great way to extend instruction beyond the classroom.

SpringShare offers tutorials on using LibGuides.

Additional resources on LibGuides below:

Stylin'!

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"Gradowiki". Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

A note about this home page

A LibGuides usability study conducted at UW showed that many students felt disoriented when landing on a guide without a Home page and were unsure what the tabs meant. (Hungerford: 2010)  To fix this, guide authors were encouraged to include a distinct home page for each guide using a consistent 2-column layout. Authors were also advised to include a "What's in this Guide" box, starting with a short (80 word max) description of the contents, and a linked list of the tabs, along with a short annotation for each. (Update your LibGuides: 2010)