Library UX

Routine checkups

Twice a semester

• Use the Link checker feature in LiGuides to review your links twice a Semester. [You will be sent calendar invites with reminder deadlines]

Once a semester

• At the beginning of each semester change any guides for courses that are not being given that semester (but will be given again) to Private [A calendar reminder will be sent out]
• At the beginning of each semester update any screenshots that are no longer current

Once a year

• Once a year Unpublish (and consider deleting) guides that are no longer relevant. Inform other library personnel who may have linked to the guide or may depend on the content
• Review your guide statistics and reflect on any related changes that they might suggest
• Review and update all guides

Continuously

• Remove links to databases that have been dropped from the collection
• Add links to resources such as databases, books, and films that have recently been added to the library collection.
• Reuse as much content as possible: assets, boxes, guides. Review the reusable boxes LibGuide.

Review and promotion

• Send any new course guides you have created to the instructor for review. (This is especially important because course numbers are changing and instructors need to check if their links still work.)
• Before instruction sessions send old course guides to the instructor to review and ask them if they would like to suggest any updates. (Consider sharing statistics for use of the guide).
• Have another librarian review your guide with the checklist before or if you are on a deadline soon after you publish it.
• All new LibGuides should be briefly presented at the faculty meeting to ensure awareness of the guide.

Content for this page was adapted from the LibGuides Maintenance and Revisions: Suggested Schedule document on LibGuides Best Practices: Maintenance & Publishing Checklist, Vanderbilt University Heard Libraries.

Content in this guide was developed with the assistance of Chatgpt and reviewed by a librarian.