Best Practices for Creating Library Resource Guides:

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Best Practices for Creating Library Resource
Guides

• also known as class guides,research guides,
  subject guides, and pathfinders

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Design Usability

• Page Layout
• Organization/Arrangement
• Content Selection
• Online Format

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Page Layout

• Font
• Background color
• Headings, Titles, Labels
• Frames
• Text

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Organization/Arrangement

• Menu
• Headings, Titles, Labels
• Categories
• Alphabetize
• Location/Access point

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Content Selection

• Broad
• Specific
• Annotations

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Online Format

• Web Page
• Wiki

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Web Page Research Guides for Education

• ASU-Belk Library http//www.library.appstate.edu/r
  eference/subjectguides/education.html
• UNCA-Ramsey Library http//bullpup.lib.unca.edu/li
  brary/rr/edresearch.html
• WCU-Hunter http//www.wcu.edu/3611.asp

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Wiki Subject Guides

• Ohio University BizWiki http//www.library.ohiou.e
  du/subjects/bizwiki/index.php/Main_Page
• St. Joseph Count Public Library
  http//sjcpl.lib.in.us/subjectguides/index.php/Mai
  n_Page

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Helpful Links

• Research Based Web Design and Usability
  Guidelines http//www.usability.gov/pdfs/guideli
  nes.html