LibGuides: Best Practices: Deciding On Content

Your Content Boxes

• Have meaningful and short titles?
• Are using the best type of box for the content?
• The fewer boxes, the better!

Your Content

Text

• Uses structured headings?
• Follows formatting tips for usability and accessibility?
• Follows the guidelines for Writing for the Web?

Links

• Are up-to-date and functional?
• Are directed to the Library's Proxy URL (if database links)?
• Are ordered in an appropriate manner (i.e. by relevance)?
• Are copied from a live site (if linking to a tab)?

Images

• Have a relevant image description?

Podcasts and Audio files

• Include caption and/or scripts?
• If external, provide a text-alternate to the audio content?

Videos and Screen Casts

• Include caption and/or scripts?
• If external, provide a text-alternate to the audio-visual content?

Tables

• Are not used for formatting purposes?
• Use Table Header Tags?

Other Interactive Tools

• Are fun, interesting, interactive, relevant?
• Address the learning styles of digital natives

Your Copyright

• the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
• the nature of the copyrighted work;
• the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
• the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.