Best Practices

Clean homepage, nice icons, and great overall layout. This influenced our Get Library Help widget. We also really liked how their Research Guides started with a Librarian's Top Picks widget, which influenced our InfoGuides home pages.

With lots of visuals and easy navigation, Charleston Southern University Library provides a great virtual tour of their library using libguides.

Some great visual customizations for the FIU LibAnswers homepage.

We liked some of the colors FIU used for their widget borders. Gave us design and style ideas.

We liked their brand of using "InfoGuides" and clean InfoGuides logo. Overall this homepage inspired our InfoGuides home and use of graphics.

Princeton's reusable guide outlines how to take advantage of Bootstrap's Affix functionality to make your sidenav menu stay visible as users scroll down the page.

RIT Library has done some amazing customizations to their LibGuides v2 InfoGuides, which they provide excellent step by step details for other librarians. These customizations include Side Nav with Column Flexibility, Permalink button, and Email this Guide button.

This guide was created to provide tips for updating content on guides, especially for the upcoming migration to LibGuides, version 2. This guide also houses information about RIT's transition from v1 to v2 to help other institutions via our experience with the process.

This landing page for video tutorials provides an excellent and descriptive overview of the many video tutorials Seminole State Library has created. Organized well and responsive.

The DSC website redesign - specifically our homepage and catalog search - was influenced greatly by the UCF Libraries website.