Guides
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University of Michigan Classical Studies Research Guide: https://guides.lib.umich.edu/c.php?g=282804&p=1884401
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This guide has pages for books and online book collections, journals and databases, reference texts, primary sources, digitized art, citation help, and even a page on modern Greek studies. There is a wide variety of information available and it is laid out plainly and neatly. This guide is easy to navigate and is user friendly.
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University of Chicago Classics Research Guide: https://guides.lib.uchicago.edu/classics
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This guide has pages for books, articles, journals, reference sources, images, and separate tabs for original Greek texts, Roman texts, papyrology, epigraphy, and numismatics (currency). The Home page features quick links to the most commonly used sources. Each page is further split into different categories so a researcher can more easily find exactly the source they want. This library, interestingly enough, has a specific Classics Reading Room. This guide is very expansive and thorough but still manageable.
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New York University Classical Studies Research Guide: https://guides.nyu.edu/c.php?g=276624&p=1845162
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As well as having tips for research and easy searching through the catalog and e-journal collections, this guide focuses on different sub-disciplines. There are pages for sources on history, language, and civilization. Each page is split into multiple categories (like art, mythology, and even women in antiquity), which makes it easy for users to find what they are looking for. There are also pages on journals, reference texts, and online resources. The sources are extensive and varied, and the design is simple but pleasing to the eye.
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These guides contain many of the same resources, but each has something unique about them. The University of Michigan guide is the most basic, but it has all the information a standard Classics scholar might need. The University of Chicago provided some unique sources with the sections on papyrology, epigraphy, and numismatics; the focus on these smaller sub-disciplines of writing and currency makes this a valuable resource. The New York University guide was set up differently than the others, and that is to its benefit. Most researchers are going to be looking for sources about a certain topic, not necessarily of a certain medium. Many would rather browse through all the sources on mythology than browse through all recommended print materials on the entire subject. This makes the New York University guide more effective than the others; it feels more tailored to the the discipline as opposed to following a standard format used for all guides.