Making Research Guides More Useful and More Well Used.

Michal Strutin

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In summer 200: a small group of Santa Clara University librarians were charged with exploring ways of making online library research guides more user friendly and interactive. In order to know how to enhance our guides, we first asked the question, "What makes a research guide useful?" What follows is a detailed process of discovery. The process started with literature on guides, which suggests that research guides, particularly general subject guides, are not well used. Examining statistics for science guides supports the contention that course-specific guides are the most well used. Interviews with students told what they look for in guides. Finally, research on platforms revealed choices for nimble creation of research guides. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2004Students, Librarians, and Subject Guides: Improving a Poor Rate of Return 2007Academic Subject Guides: A Case Study of Use at San José State University 2005Was this guide helpful? Users' perceptions of subject guides

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