There are two types of reviewing that take place for every new LibGuide: Content (Peer) Review and Technical Review. Content review can be done within the division (LibGuides group), or can broaden to include review and feedback from peers outside of the division. It can be extremely useful to have colleagues at the Library who are unfamiliar with the subject of your guide give you feedback on your presentation of that content. Content review should include grammar and spell checking, general editorial review, and attention to consistency of language throughout the guide.

Technical review should happen next. Each “group” in LibGuides should have at least one internal technical reviewer who is trained to do a thorough check of each guide – this should be done prior to moving the guide into “review” status (e.g., while it is still “unpublished”). This technical review should evaluate the guide for adherence to the Library of Congress LibGuides and Web standards, checking “under the hood” for clean coding, validating the use of standard boilerplate language (like for “Books from the Catalog”), checking all friendly URLs, and checking the quality of the guide’s title, description, subjects, and tags. A technical reviewer should also look for opportunities to establish new reusable boxes for common elements used by their division, and make sure that reusable boxes and pages from the Library’s main guide, “Ask a Librarian, Authorship, and other Reusable Boxes for Library of Congress Guides” are being mapped correctly.

Once the guide is ready for FINAL technical review, it should be submitted to the Publishing Workflow, by changing the guide status to: “Submitted for Review.” At that point a smaller group of designated reviewers will check the guide prior to publishing.  If a guide will need a redirect (from an older HTML-based webpage), that information should be included in the notes when the guide is submitted for final review.

Publication

Once a guide has been approved, it will be published. Upon publication, the owner and reviewer will review the guide to ensure it looks and functions as expected. A link to the guide will then be added to the general directory of the Library's Research Guides.

Maintenance

The guide’s owner will be responsible for maintaining the guide, ensuring that content remains accurate, broken links are corrected, and new content is added when appropriate. The owner will receive and reply to any content-related error reports associated with the guide submitted by the public or by Library staff.