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How To Stop Being A Librarian: Student-Centered Library Guide Design And Content Curation, Melodie Gardner

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Objective: The objective of this paper is to discuss information seeking behavior of digital-native students verses librarians and how this affects the design, layout, and content of effective library guides. Topics covered will include effective content curation for guides, web-user’s behavior patterns, design consistency, and tips & tricks for integrating design and content best practices across a library guide system.

Methods: Springshare’s LibGuides is a platform that allows librarians to create and design topic-centered web pages called Library Guides which contain curated content; including library resources. While librarians generally follow webpage design best-practices in their library guides to increase their …