Best Practices and Accessibility

• Make use of the LibGuides link checker feature twice a year to ensure that all your links are active.
• Before the beginning of each semester, review all guides to see if there are any resources (databases, ebooks, etc), that can be added to the guide.
• Each time a course is being offered, allow the instructor to review any relevant course guides so that he or she can suggest any updates.
• Promptly remove database links to resources that we no longer subscribe to. If you list your databases using Add/Reorder | Database, links will be removed automatically as they are removed from the databases page (A to Z). 

Check your guide on multiple devices with different screen sizes to ensure that your guide functions well and important content is still on top.

Shrinking and expanding your browser window can show a similar effect of how your guide will appear on a smaller or narrower screen.

Guide authors should continue to monitor new and changed resources for inclusion in their Research Guides.  Keep the guides in mind whenever a new database (or a link change) is announced, when new editions of books (especially reference books) become available, etc. 

If a guide is no longer relevant or was created for a class that is no longer taught then consider changing the status to private. 

A private guide is preferable to an unpublished guide because anyone with the guide URL will still have access to it. Unpublished guides are hidden from all users.