Library:LTK Manual Guidelines

Best Practices for the Process

1. Start with your most heavily used guides.
   
2. Think about ways to track your process. For example, some individuals might like to keep information about their guides in a word document.
   
3. Add your completed guides to the Next Steps Page to inform others who might be linking to your guides that there has been a change.
   
4. When you are linking to a library resource Information Page, make sure that the URL starts with http://resources.library.ubc.ca/
5. LTK allows co-authoring and the ability to have more than one contact. Please ensure that you include contacts from both UBC-O and UBC-V.

Best Practices for the Home Tab

When you create a page, the default tab is the Home tab. The Subject Guides Implementation Team has identified suggested best practices for widgets to be included on the Home tab:

Left hand side of the screen:

1. Introduction (text widget)
   
2. Related Guides (resource links widget)
   
3. UBC Departments (resource links widget)
   

Right hand side of the screen

1. Image (Text and Image widget)
   

Best Practices for the Descriptions

Try to keep your annotations short. No longer than 1 or 2 sentences.

This same principle holds true if you are updating the Short Description field of the Information Page of a linked library resource. If you are adding a short description, please make sure it is only 1 or 2 sentences. If the resource is interdisciplinary in nature, try to make your description open enough to accommodate other disciplines.

If you want to foreground a particular resource or set of resources, some librarians have created text widgets which preface these important sources with the phrase Start Here

Suggested Tab Headings

The Subject Guides Implementation Team reviewed existing UBC Library subject guides to see if there were common ways of expressing categories. We identified several generally used ways of describing specific kinds of information across many subject guides and have listed them below.

You may consider using these categories when naming the tabs you assign to your subject guide page for consistency. However, this list is not intended to be prescriptive. You may find that your subject area or branch prefers other or additional terms.

Please add new terms to this list. It will help your colleagues who are naming their own tabs.

Articles

• indexes & databases
• journals
• newspapers

Associations/Societies

• agencies
• organizations or cultural organizations

Books

• subject headings
• call number ranges
• ebook collections
• new materials at UBC Library RSS feed

Background Information

• reference materials

Biographical Info

Conferences

• includes papers, proceedings

Government

Images

Journals

• Subject headings into catalogue
• Subjects in Serials Solutions
• Specific titles
• RSS feed from TOC of important journal

Local Resources

• Vertical Files
• Links to resources: Vancouver Historical Society Bibliography, City of Vancouver Archives

News Sources

• blogs
• listservs

Primary sources

• Archives

Special Materials

• Vertical Files
• Exhibition Catalogues
• links to resources: RBSC, Archives, Vancouver Historical Society Bibliography

Standards

Statistics

• includes data and statistics (some specific guides may require a separate Data tab, if needed for that area)

Theses

• includes information about dissertations and theses

Websites

More…

Best Practices for Images

Image Folder Organization:
When adding an image you will be taken to the Moxiecode Image Manager program. In this program all images are stored in folders. To keep the top level folders manageable, the SGIT is recommending that the top level folders represent branches. Once within a branch folder, the SGIT recommends that the branch decide how best to organize its folders (by person, by subject, by guide, etc.).

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