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A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries Michael Donovan River Campus Libraries

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Page 1: A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries Michael Donovan River Campus Libraries

A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries

A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries

Michael DonovanRiver Campus Libraries

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A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries

Agenda

1. What is a style guide?2. What are the resources for page editors?3. What are the responsibilities of the Digital

Initiatives Unit and Page Editors?4. Questions?

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A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries

What is a Style Guide?

A set of guidelines(i.e. all text is top aligned and left justified)

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A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries

What Does it Accomplish?

• Universal Design• ADA Compliance• Aesthetics• Usability

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A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries

Sources for Guidelines

• Web Design and Usability Literature Sarah Horton’s Web Style Guide (www.

webstyleguide.com) WebAIM web accessibility standards & SEC. 508.

(http://www.webaim.org/standards/) World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) HTML &

accessibility standards (www.w3.org) Research Based Web Design and Usability

Guidelines (www.usability.gov/guidelines)

• Experience & Education

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A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries

Resources For Page Editors

• Staff Documentation• Page Editors’ Updates & Web Updates• Page Editors’ Checklist• Link Checker• Digital Initiatives Unit

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A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries

Page Editors’ Checklist

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A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries

All Guidelines Fit Into Categories

• Universal Design• ADA Compliance• Aesthetics• Usability

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A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries

Digital Initiatives Unit Responsibilities

• Create & update the style guidelines• Apply the style guidelines to top level

pages• Keep Page Editors up-to-date

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A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries

Page Editors Responsibilities

• Apply checklist to your pages • Check links• Give feedback on use of tools

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A Style Guide for the River Campus Libraries

Questions?