num_pages: 169
description: Whether you call them research guides subject guides or pathfinders web-based guides are a great way to create customized support tools for a specific a class a group or anyone engaging in research. Studies show that library guides are often difficult confusing or overwhelming causing users to give up and just fall back on search engines such as Google. How can librarians create more effective less confusing and simply better research guides?In Modern Creating Better Research Guides  author Jason Puckett takes proven ideas from instructional design and user experience web design and combines them into easy-to-understand principles for making your research guides better teaching tools. It doesn't matter what software your library uses; the advice and techniques in this book will help you create guides that are easier for your users to understand and more effective to use.Jason Puckett is also the author of the ACRL publication A Guide for Librarians Researchers and Educators .
language: English
title: Modern Pathfinders: Creating Better Research Guides
publisher: American Library Association