CLAP Meeting 11/11/25

Julia and Leah summarized conversation with Christina Sheley about goal of LibGuides best practices and ideas/support for year-end event.

Year-end ideas:

  • Present/teach how to incorporate active learning and interactive tools into LibGuides. Our end product for this group will be best practices for incorporating these tools but also want to be able to show people how to do this.
  • CLAP creates a mock LibGuide that would be used to demo common problems and/or ways you can take an “okay” guide to the next level – could then lead into a co-working session for those interested in sharing their guides for review (“Ask an Expert”-style activity).
  • Show people how to check their LibGuide stats, how to determine what hits are coming from inside and outside CUL.

We discussed potential dates, looking at end of May or first week of June. Scheduled meeting May 19, would be a chance to prep and do run-through of event.

Possible locations for event: Uris B05 has multiple monitors, would be good for co-working element.  Fiske has one large screen.

Assessment: 

How would our subgroup coordinate with the Admin group? Leah wil coordinate. Traffic data is passively collected by Springshare.

Discussed how assessment is also related to usability, the need for each subgroup to think about how their goals are assessed. For example, could have interactive guide but need to ensure people can use it and find it.  As we create best practices, be mindful of areas where there is overlap among the subgroups and note this.

Need to add a statement about the purpose of the best practices project to the Confluence page for it.

Intended audience:

Do we focus only on best practices for a specific group, such as beginning level undergraduates, graduate students, or fellow colleagues? Differences between course guide and subject guide and their uses.

Should create a shared practice of defining the audience for each LibGuide and stating this purpose in the top box.

Time-stamping and Keeping Guides Up to Date

Time-stamping guides also a best practice to ensure they are up to date. Discussed the likelihood that some resources we link to may become unavailable as cancellations take place, and the need to ensure guides aren’t sending people to resources we no longer have.

One way to time-stamp is to put semester a class is taught in the title, so that anyone who finds it know when/for what class it was created.

Have creators review their guides at the end of each semester and move them to private if they are old or not needed for the following semester.



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