Maintaining your Libguides
Liaison guide review
Reviewing your guides on a regular basis will help you to keep them current and free of broken links or otherwise out of date information.
Liaisons are responsible for maintaining guides of which they are the owners or co-editors.
Liaisons will be reminded to focus on maintaining guides twice per year during July and January.
Delete unused guides or set them to "private."
- Best practices recommend setting to Private status in case the guides are being linked to from external places such as MyClasses. The reasoning, I think, is that outdated info is better than a dead link. If a guide is no longer relevant, please delete it.
Un-promote guides using this tag: #promoted.
- Help to reduce clutter in the Class Guide menu. The purpose of this menu is to provide users with quick access to course guides that are used for library instruction. Unpromoting any guides that you know you won't use in the upcoming semester by deleting the #promoted tag.
Assign guide types
When logged into the Libguides system, select Content and add your name under Owner. Choosing the correct “Type” allows the guides to display on the library home page and appropriate places elsewhere within the system.
Identify guides as one of the three Types below. We do not use “General.”
Course guide, Topic guide, Subject guide
Update content.
Prioritize which guides should be updated first. Course guides that supplement classes coming up might take precedence. Or, a Subject or Topic guide that is in need of some serious TLC might be first to tackle.
Especially review library databases in your area(s) to identify ones to add or omit.
Do an accessibility check
Consult Chris' Making Accessible Libguides for every guide you update.
Link maintenance
- Libguides' Link Checker reporting tool allows you to quickly identify dead or inaccurate links in guides that you own.
- Select Content, add your name under Owner, and select Updated to see your list and last-edited dates.
