Design and content standards
Tasks
- Review current LibGuides best practices
- Review other examples of LibGuides standards
- Read "service design" model for LibGuides LGServDesign.pdf
- Identify categories and structure of design and content standards
- Determine which group members will write standards for the different categories
- Provide rationale for standards (for colleagues)
- Create template(s) for guides
- Create design and content standards for LibGuides
- Make decision about the role of LibGuides within our larger site ecosystem (what content goes into LibGuides vs Drupal, etc.)
Deliverables:
- Formalized design and content standards for LibGuides
- Recommendation for delivery of standards to guide authors (e.g. a LibGuide, other internal staff tool, etc.)
Review process
Tasks
- Review needs specific to Temple Libraries (see below)
- Are there any other concerns or issues we should keep in mind?
- Consider how Rick's work on current best practices might fit in
- Outline process of review and approval with thought to our specific needs
- Investigate and test publishing workflow feature in LibGuides to see if meets our needs to (can "groups" be set up so that HSL and Law could have their own workflow if needed?)
- Determine to what extent the publishing workflow feature meets our needs
- If publishing workflow does not meet our needs, recommend other mechanism/technology for guide review and approval
- Determine the mechanism and policy for requesting to create a new guide or "pre-authoring"
- Make recommendation for composition of the review team (number of members, duration, etc.)
Notes
LibGuides review process must include
- A way for a guide author to request and receive approval to create a new guide
- This is a way to review and determine if a guide is necessary, adequately differs from existing guides, and if the author is the appropriate person to produce that guide
- Does this apply to course guides or just subject and topic guides?
- Accommodation of “last-minute guides” needed to satisfy requests for course-related instruction
- Timeline for repeat reviews or general guide maintenance
Deliverables:
- Checklist for guide authors (a way to quickly evaluate your own guide to determine whether it will meet standards)
- Recommendations for the process and mechanism for
- how are guides submitted for review
- how authors will be notified of the outcome of the review process
Revision of Existing Guides and On-going Maintenance Schedule
- How do we want to address existing guides? Will there be a period where guide authors revise guides to meet standards?
- How do we maintain guides going forward? Do they need to go through a "recertification" process that ensures they continue to meet standards?