- LibGuides Best Practices: Designing for Usability
LibGuides Best Practices: Designing for Usability Lindley Homol and Robert Miller, University of Maryland University College LibGuides Usability Issues Although thousands of libraries use LibGuides, how students perceive and use these guides is still an emerging area of research
- LibGuides v2 Basics
What is LibGuides? LibGuides is an easy-to-use Content Management System used by many thousands of libraries worldwide Librarians use it to curate knowledge and share information by creating online Guides on any topic, subject, course, on any process, on anything
- LibGuides for Instruction - JSTOR
LibGuides is a fee-based, licensed tool that enables libraries to easily create small websites called “guides ” These guides are typically created for a subject area, a type of user, a tool, or a class and contain links, videos, and handouts that are intended to help a user access a resource or learn something
- 4 Really Really Ridiculously Good-Looking: Best Practices for . . .
There is a lot of information available on general “best practices” for LibGuides Most of this information is written by and for individual academic institutions, though there are a few pages written by larger communities of librarians (bestof libguides com) and SpringShare itself (the web platform company that created the LibGuides and LibAnswers apps) Best practices for LibGuides seem
- Chapter 7 Concepts, Language, Meanings, and Definitions
Specifically, the chapter and lectures focus upon the ways in which concepts come to bear meanings and the errors that can arise in thought, communication and argument that can result from the manner in which concepts and words get their significance
- Recommended by Librarians: A Computational Citation Analysis . . .
To advance the depth and breadth of research regarding LibGuides, the dominant platform for creating and hosting library guides, researchers Cody Hennesy and Annis Lee Adams, in their article “Measuring Actual Practices: A Computational Analysis of LibGuides in Academic Libraries,” call upon others to use computational methods to gather and synthesize the collective wisdom of professional
- Chapter 3 Enhancing LibGuides Usability and Discoverability . . .
At the University of Michigan Library, we use Springshare’s LibGuides to manage subject, course, and specialized information guides comprising thousands of individual web
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