Guides best practices: Maintenance and help
After using this guide, Stanford Libraries staff will be able to build, assess, and maintain research guides that address specific information needs.
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- Get help with LibGuidesSpringshare's online help center for working with LibGuides
- Example guideAn example Stanford Libraries guide, "Civil and environmental engineering"
- Copy an existing guide from our LibGuides systemHow to reuse an existing LibGuide from our Stanford LibGuides
- Bring the library into Canvas - embed a guide into a course siteHow to embed a guide into a Canvas course site
Find and fix broken links
Links break.
Luckily, LibGuides has a Link Checker that you can use to easily find and fix broken links. Due to the relatively short lifespan of database links, we recommend that you use this tool every quarter to find and fix any broken links in your guides.
Sunset out-of-date guides and fix inaccurate information
Library guides are not meant to last forever. Library users change. Library services change. Library guides should too.
At least once a year, we ask that you read over all your guides to find and update information that has become out-of-date and/or inaccurate. If one of your guides is no longer relevant, we ask that delete your guides or change the guide status to unpublished.
