How to create Resource Guides that aren't simply pathfinders to library resources.

1. Rockstar Resource Guides

2. What’s in a name?

3. Other Formats
PDF SCHOOLOGY
GOOGLE SITES

4. Behind the Scenes Guides
● Developing resource guides
○ Useability/accessibility:
■ General layout: side navigation
■ Consider the audience (i.e. teenagers who don’t want to click or scroll)
■ Visually overwhelming: too much stylizing (think color, fonts etc…)
too much information
Using Libguides CMS makes creation and formatting much easier (for most things),
* however html and css is transferable no matter the platform

5. Behind the Scenes Guides
Using Libguides CMS makes creation and formatting much easier (for most things),
* however html and css is transferable no matter the platform
● Developing templates
○ Replicability:
Consider those making the guides (not everyone has learned/are comfortable with HTML and
CSS)
○ Maintain a “tool box” of coding, videos, etc.

6. Behind the Scenes Template Guides

7. Behind the Scenes Template Guides

8. Behind the Scenes Coding Guide

21. Thank You
Laura Pearle
Director, Cox Library
Milton Academy
Joanna Novick
Upper School Librarian
Milton Academy
cox_library@milton.edu