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Library community guidelines for web design, web accessibility, and web-related organizational administrative strategies.
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Compile sources #4

Open jswelker opened 9 years ago

jswelker commented 9 years ago

The first stage of the project is researching best practices and standards. We need to compile sources related to topics we will be discussing. Here are examples of acceptable sources:

Add a citation to your sources on the appropriate page on the wiki using any citation format you'd like (I've been using APA to start). Be specific with your citations, especially if it's in a book. Narrow it down to a specific chapter or section if you can, or add an annotation after the citation. If the wiki is missing a heading, or if you don't like how the headings are organized, feel free to change them.

We're all (mostly) librarians, so I will assume we all know how to determine the quality of sources. The only thing I will add on that subject is that many of the guidelines listed at usability.gov cite very dated information that might no longer be applicable (pre-mobile, pre-web 2.0, pre-Google, some even pre-Internet). Exercise judgment before including those.

Let's try to have this done by the end of January.

jswelker commented 9 years ago

Thanks to those who have started fleshing this out. Only about 4 people of the 25 of us have contributed to the research part of this project at this point. I blame eggnog and holiday shopping. I'm @including everyone on this issue as a reminder in case you are like me and had your brain go all fuzzy in the last several weeks.

@michaelschofield @vsiler @LisaGayhart @csheldonhess @hklish01 @cboman @jtidal @respinel @sciencex @knieper @rachel1011 @gnosisgithub @webgoddess @ahaines @stephenfrancoeur @holwhite @jaimemccurry @asteino @zoechao @emilykingatcsn @lkwiegand @deirdrelyon @zchartman @kooje

michaelschofield commented 9 years ago

Thanks for the tickler, @jswelker! I admit I totally forgot ---_---. This really isn't a shady plug, but there are some posts on LibUX that address topics we're concerned with here, and I've linked-up a ton of resources. When it comes to a best practice like "Links Should Open in the Same Window" (recently brought up on ALA Think Tank, so it's something librarians think about), we can rip-off the bibliography.