Modern pathfinders
Subtitle: creating better research guides
By: by Jason Puckett
Publisher: Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
ISBN-13: 9780838988176
Subjects: Relations with faculty and curriculum; Special collections; Library orientation; Web-based instruction; Research; Libraries; Methodology; Design; Library Web sites; Electronic reference services (Libraries); School librarian participation in curriculum planning; Academic libraries; Electronic information resources; Evaluation
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 audience: 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 Pathfinders: 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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Research guides and instructional theory; title: Learning objectives in research guides; title: Learning styles; title: Designing and writing for better usability; title: Assessment; title: Planning, coordinating, and administrating guides.