Best Practices for Subject/Course/General LibGuides at USF

If a Course Guide, name should consist of course prefix + title Examples:

• LIT 2300: Introduction to Poetry,
• LIT 2000: Introduction to the Short Story (Jones) and
• LIT 2000: Introduction to the Short Story (Smith)
• ARH 6798 / ARH 5021 / LIT 2300: Idea of Venice

If a Subject Guide, the name be consistent with the department, program or discipline name Examples:

• Chemistry
• English

If a General Purpose Guide, the name should be descriptive of the guide content. Examples:

• Ebook Collections
• Copyright
• Oral History Project

Assign a Type to your guide:

• Subject Guide: Choose this if your guide is a subject guide.
• Course Guide: Choose this if your guide is a course guide.
• General Purpose Guide: Choose this if your guide is not a course or subject guide.

Assign your guide to a Group:

• Course Guides: Choose this if your guide is a course guide.
• Subject Guides: Choose this if your guide is a subject guide.
• Library Collections and Services: Choose this if your guide is about a specific service or library collection.
• Digital Collections and Services: Choose this if your guide is part of DSS
• USF Health Libraries: Choose this if your guide is about the USF Health Libraries collections and services

  Assign the correct template to your guide:

• Go to Guide Navigation Layout.
• Select System Side-Nav.
• Do not assign any tags to your guide
• Assign a subject to your guide
• Make a selection from the available subjects.
• In general, assign one subject.
• If the guide is interdisciplinary, assign up to three subjects. Select the most appropriate subjects.

Give your guide a friendly URL:

• Use lowercase letters.
• Do no use abbreviations, hyphens, or underscores.
• For General Purpose guides, create a URL that describes the content

Example: https://guides.lib.usf.edu/copyright

• For subject guides: use the department or subject name.

Example: https://guides.lib.usf.edu/criminology

• For course guides: use the course prefix and number.

Example: http://guides.lib.usf.edu/enc1101

• For course guides for cross-listed course: use the course title.

Example: http://guides.lib.usf.edu/feministpedagogy

• For course guides for special topics course: use course prefix, number, and title.

Example: http://guides.lib.usf.edu/enc4930feministpedagogy

All links added to the guide must be assets; no html/rich text links should be used.

Do not bold link titles using html tags.

Do not change the font size, style, or color.