Standards and Guidelines: HE Specific Boxes

The readings pages are usually made of the following boxes which contain resources retrieved from the academic subject guide under section 5. Recommended reference materials provided by the HE section.

• Prescribed
• Recommended
• Readings

Resources listed under 5.3. Online resources will be added to the following boxes:

• Recommended eJournals
• Recommended Web Resources

Resources recommended by teachers that are not part of the 5.1. Prescribed texts or 5.2. Recommended readings can be added to a box with the following name. This can include texts of which weekly readings are retrieved from e.g. books or journals.

• Additional resources

Boxes with recommended resources suggested by librarians will include the word "Suggested".

• Suggested Books and eBooks (Or either)
• Suggested eJournals
• Suggested Web Resources
• Suggested eResources

Suggestions should be only made if they are vital for the subject and the content of the required boxes is not already overwhelming. You can also create boxes for single eResources e.g. Standards Online or LinkedIn Learning.

Whilst students in a course will be enrolled in specific course version of the online course platform, the library guide may cover different versions of a course and include old unit pages for course in teach-out along with similar named new units. 

• Boxes require sign-off by the S & SG FIT lead
• Boxes are only to be included to explain to students if a particular unit is not required/required for a course in teach out.
• The wording in the box should be clear and short and should be approved by the relevant teaching section, however it is a Library Services/S &SG FIT lead decision to go ahead regardless, if the box is required to avoid confusion on the library guide.

Example of wording:

• For students enrolled prior to [date] refer to unit.....[link to unit]
• For students enrolled from [date] refer to unit.....[link to unit]

For further examples go to:

Sub headings in readings boxes are only required when:

1. It is necessary to distinguish between what must be read, from what is suggested/recommended or additional to be read.

• Where there are both main and suggested/recommended/additional items, only the suggested/recommended/additional items get a heading.
  • Do not include headings for the main readings- ie 'Readings', 'Core', 'Focused,' Pre-Reading' etc.
  • Use 'Recommended' rather than terms like 'Additional'; 'Suggested'; 'Optional'; 'Further'; 'Other' etc
• Where there are only suggested/recommended/additional readings, include the heading 'Recommended'.

2. A specific sub category of reading format is included in the subject guide- eg 'Case studies'. You can use the format as the heading. Don't separate videos; book chapters; web pages etc with headings.

3. Items that are not referenced have been included in the reading list -  whole websites; podcasts; journals.

• Use 'Web resources' as the heading for a mixed group or the format for a single group
• List as per normal non referenced link standards

Note: Whole books should be placed as book assets in a separate box and not included in a weekly reading list.