LibGuides: Library Employee Resources: Libguides

Which guide type should I choose?

Subject Guides

Subject guides are research guides designed to provide instruction and guidance on a specific academic subject. e.g. History, Political Science

Course Guides

Course guides designed to support the teaching and research needs of a specific course.

Topic Guides

Topic guides pull together information on a central topic, tool, or research area that is not generally considered to be an academic department or program. These include guides like Citation Management Software and Open Educational Resources.

General Purpose Guides

General Purpose guides provide general information on a collection or service at the library. The Board Games Collection and the Off Campus Access guides fall under this category.

Internal Guides

Internal guides are made to be shared and used by library employees. This guide, the Librarian Resources guide, is an example of an internal guide.

Template Guides

Template guides are guides that do not contain any actual content but are there to provide a structure to work off of. We communal have templates for subject and course guides and another guide for mapped boxes. Their names begin with ADMIN.

Naming Standards

There are no official naming standards for any type of libguide at this time. It is recommended, however, that the title of course guides contain the course subject's abbreviation (BIO, COMM, ENGL, etc.), the course number, and the name of the course.

Accessibility & Libguides Testing Resources

Coblis Colorblindness Checker You can upload an image file to view through the filters of different types of colorblindness.
Toptal Website Colorblindness Test Though it doesn't have as many filters as the Coblis test, you only have to enter a URL to view it through filters of colorblindness types
Alt-Text Best Practices Alt-text is used by screen readers to determine what an image is. It also appears if an image is broken or un-viewable.
Chrome Lighthouse Reports Only in the browser Chrome, Lighthouse will run accessibility reports. On the public view of your Libguide, right click, select inspect. From the Dev tabs (it might be at the very end) choose Lighthouse. Select the type of report you'd like to run, likely "Accessibility" and the the type of device it would view.
Mobile View On the public view of your Libguide, right click, select inspect. On the top bar with the Dev tabs, there is an icon of a rectangle with a smaller rectangle with heavier top and bottom lines in the bottom left corner. Clicking that with switch the webpage in and out of mobile view.
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Article on WSU using Universal Design for Learning on their LibGuides

Research Guides

Library Employee Resources: Libguides

Libguides Checklists

Which guide type should I choose?

Naming Standards

Accessibility & Libguides Testing Resources

Best Practice Guides