Best Practices for UCL LibGuides

1. ​​​​​Add a feedback form to your guide
2. Suggest new books for the Black Studies guide
3. Discover new content
4. Check and update links
5. Have another look at the 2023 top tips

Give students and staff the opportunity to feedback to you about your guide by creating and adding a LibWizard feedback form. Instructions on how to set it up and attach it to your guide are available in the Best Practice guide. Check out the Film and Media Studies subject guide to see how the form appears (as a yellow tab at the top left of the page).

Do you have any new titles in your subject collection/s by black scholars or related to black scholarship? Please send them on to Liz Lawes to add to the new books carousel for the Black Studies guide, to help ensure that a comprehensive range of subject areas are represented.

Find and choose new reusable content that will enhance your guide by browsing the reusable content guide. For example:

• Using Generative AI in your research
• Repositories
• Copyright basics for students

Thinking of adding new content to your guide that other colleagues might also want to use? Consider creating it in the reusable asset guide and letting us know. Our best practices guide includes instructions on how to add reusable content to your own guide.

As always, please make sure that there are no broken links in your guide, using the link checker.

Our top tips from last summer are still available. Please take a look if you haven't already, or view them again as a refresher. Tips included:

• Find out how your guides are being used (how many times have your guide/s and page/s been viewed in the past year?)
• Check our glossary to ensure we're applying common used terms consistently across guides
• Guidance on how to rename your guide if you need to

And last but not least, a reminder that if you add any new content boxes to your guide, you will need to resubmit it for review again. Our reviewers usually respond very quickly, but please allow up to a few days, in case we’re on leave or juggling other commitments. You can avoid delays by adding a note for reviewers when you submit your guide, letting them know what has been added (and where it is in the guide) so they can quickly and easily see the changes they need to review and approve.