Best Practices

This guide is for Trinity library employees who make libguides.

Here is some text explaining the purpose of the guide, how to use the guide, and maybe a link to a liaison calendar if that is applicable.

• Maybe you include that this is a small collection of library resources selected by a subject librarian.
• Examples of welcome boxes can be found in these guides: 
  • Education
  • Summer Research

Our guides:

• be simple and clear.
• write for the web (and for everyday users, not library professionals)
• use lists when applicable
• use headings when applicable: h3 to start and move to h4 if creating an outline. The guide is automatically h1 and the box is h2. 
• be mindful of dates and people (that have passed or are no longer here)
• links need to open in a new tab
• images should be uploaded using the rich text editor media tools and should have alt text captioning (unless it is purely decorative)
• embedded videos need closed captioning