Task force charge / goals:

• Create a new set of guidelines for making research guides on LibGuides.

• Provide a set of recommendations with examples of guides that use best practices, including long and short subject guides, publication types, and course pages, and think about situations when it's not appropriate to use LibGuides (ex., for complicated guides, like GIS pages.)
• Decide how flexible/strict we want to be about guidelines.  (ex., Vera database subject listings: Should we have strict way of listing them, or let everyone do it their own way?)
• Provide rationale for guidelines.
• Report back to UIG and RISG.

Notes:

• Each member of the task force will create a few sample guides.

• Instead of subject guides, publication type guides, and course pages, we'll consider calling them "research guides."
• Marion will set up initial page for each subject with data from the Vera database description project, then the subject specialist could build on that.
• We may link to the research guides from Vera Multisearch (currently Databases by Subject; could become Research Guides by Subject).
• Use subject page guidelines on the staff web guidelines pages for guidance, and expand as necessary: http://libstaff.mit.edu/web/guidelines/subject.html.
• People can still link to their old subject pages or continue to use html, if it makes sense to do so.
• Add or delete from the charge as the group sees fit!

Timeline:

• Mid-May: Form task force and begin meeting; invite Darcy and Nicole to kick-off meeting.

• Mid-May to 6/30: Task Force does its work.
• July 1-ish: Report to UIG/RISG.
• July: Marion sets up initial subjects based on the existing templates, including a list of databases for each subject.  
• July 1-15: Train staff on LibGuides.
• July/August: Librarians can start editing their own pages.
• August: Go live!