LibGuide Sustainability & Troubleshooting

Don’t create it & forget it... Refresh your guides’ content & check findability, usability, & accessibility.

Screenshots

• Update older website, discovery, or catalog images

• Consider using screenshots of Discovery results

• Use images from Shared Library

Directions & Steps

• Change text to reflect new website pathways

• Add Primo VE / Alma directions for general researching

Out-of-Date Content

• Misinformation

• Older content

• Past events

• Check for the accuracy of information

• Replace with current, more relevant information

Can't finish your refresh today?

• Unpublish and come back to it later

“Keep your content fresh” advice from Springshare

• Like other living creatures, your guide requires care & feeding…

• Review your guide on a regular basis - every month, every semester, etc.

  • Ask yourself if the guide is still relevant:

  • Was it created for a course that isn't being offered this semester?

  • Is it focused on an event that has long since past?

  • If so, unpublish or delete the guide.

• If your guide is still relevant:

  • Hide or delete outdated content

  • Update broken links

  • Add fresh content - give users a reason to come back to your guide!

  • Twitter media widgets & RSS feeds are great ways to have built-in new content.

• “Learn from Jurassic Park” advice from Springshare

  • Just because it's nifty doesn't mean it's usable, and that it won't come back to bite you on the...well, you know.

  • Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should. — Dr. Ian Malcolm

Ask yourself, “Is there a need for this guide?” and “Does this need to be a guide and why?”