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Policy on Creating and Maintaining Guides
The Policy on Creating and Maintaining Guides details for library guide authors: the decision making process involved in creating a new guide for users, itemizes which style guidelines to follow, and outlines the annual guides review, and notification processes.
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The deadline for updating
Guides to Information Resources is Friday, August 22, 2008 |
Process
Decision to Create a Guide
- A librarian/subject specialist will decide when to create, revise, or eliminate a guide in his/her own subject area.
- The librarian/subject specialist who produces a guide will be considered the author of the guide.
- A librarian who would like to have a guide created by someone from another subject area will make the request to the appropriate individual or team.
Creating the Guide
Follow the style guidelines. Use the tips and tricks for additional information.
Review Process
- After an author creates or revises a guide, s/he will fill out the Guides Notification Form (a.k.a., the yellow form) and submit it to their team's liaison.
- The liaison will review the guide and forward any comments to the author. Editorial comments may address such things as content, format and mechanics. (e.g., spelling, punctuation, grammar).
- The author will revise the guide and keep a back-up copy of the final version.
- When the final version is completed, the liaison will forward it to User Education Services, either via e-mail or campus mail.
- Authors will review guides every year by the beginning of each Fall semester.
- The guide's author will receive a reminder to revise the guide.
- If no revision has been made by the date supplied by the Guides Group (Revision date for Fall 2006 - August 11),the guide will be de-linked from Research Port and the Guides home page. It will be put in the JUNK directory unavailable to the public.
- The guide will be "relinked" again by User Education Services once notification of revision has been received.
Final Processing and Notification
User Education Services will update the Guides to Information Resources Web list and will announce the availability of new and eliminated guides via Library Matters.
