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November 19th, 2009 by Elin Waagen
Thanks for your time yesterday at the all-LIS staff meeting. I know that your time is an extremely valuable resource , and I appreciate that you took time away from other pressing work to learn a little bit about what the web team is doing.
I have listed below the link to the Information Architecture site – I hope you’ll take a closer look.
LIS Website
It is a work in progress and we welcome your thoughts and ideas. You best know who your users are – and your feedback will help build a fabulous place for our users to discover LIS and all the resources and services we provide. Many thanks to those of you who filled out comment cards and asked questions at the meeting. We will take your comments and questions to heart and carefully evaluate them as we further develop and test the usability of the site.
We have some very exciting web tools and platforms to work with in developing the site. We hope that the intersection of multiple platforms on the LIS web site will give our users the best possible experience in navigating and accessing our services and resources – and also give LIS a chance to feature the great work we do.
Please be in touch. We can reached by blog, phone, email, and also in person. 
Elin, on behalf of the web team Ian, Barbara, Carrie, Liz, Jim, Jess and Doreen
November 16th, 2009 by Elin Waagen
Web Team Agenda Wed 11/18 10 – 11 am in Voter West
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November 13th, 2009 by Elin Waagen
Planning a trip to the ECHO Center? Be sure to stop by the Main Library Circ Desk to borrow the Library Echo Pass. Show the pass to the Echo Front Desk and up to 2 adults and 3 youths will be admitted for just $2 each.
Check out the Echo Center here.
ECHO is open year round, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., except Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve & Day.
November 10th, 2009 by Elin Waagen
Agenda 11/11 – 12
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November 4th, 2009 by Elin Waagen
 LIS will once again be offering 24/7 to our students 11/29 – 12/12.
Here is your opportunity to experience the Main Library at night!
Interested in flexing your schedule and adding a little excitement to your work week? Working nights instead of your usual ho-hum day schedule?
If so, check with your supervisor and be in touch with your availability.
The shifts are 12 midnight – 4 am and 4 am – 8 am. All nighters also welcome.
The deadline for letting me know is Thursday 11/12.
Movies, music, snacks and caffeine will be available.
Questions – please be in touch!
Many thanks.
Elin
November 3rd, 2009 by Elin Waagen
LIS Web Team Meeting Agenda 11/4 and 11/5
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October 28th, 2009 by Elin Waagen
October 21st, 2009 by Elin Waagen
Agenda Thurs 10/22
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October 20th, 2009 by Elin Waagen
Agenda Wednesday 10/21/09
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October 13th, 2009 by Elin Waagen
Bryan Carson and I recently presented our Fall ‘08 Tasty Tech Tidbits series at the Dartmouth College 2009 October Conference
We used a new web presentation tool called Prezi (thanks Joe A!) to deliver our talk. Our presentation was one of several for the 1-day conference – and it was nice to see the friendly faces of Brenda, Terry, Joy and Karen (spouse of Mike) Lynch in the audience. All presentations are now posted on the Dartmouth Conference site. Check it out – there are some interesting ideas – including using Jing to develop tutorials and a learning 2.0 program using the 23 Things concept.
October 8th, 2009 by Elin Waagen
Web Team Meeting Agenda Wed 10/14 and Thurs 10/15
Review progress of LIS in web analysis/design – considering essential site features and IA; content considered “essential” by LIS primary contact/s; ideas for where else on the LIS site links to the content should appear. Based on this info, the team will create an IA modeled after what White Whale has created for other sections of the College site.
September 29th, 2009 by Elin Waagen
As of October 1, you’ll notice that the “place request” button in MidCat no longer displays for materials with an “available” status. Due to decreased staffing resources, Circulation Services will no longer be able to retrieve requested materials from library shelves for on-campus borrowers.
While it was a valued service for our on-campus borrowers, a large amount of staff time was used to fill the many requests, time that must now be redirected towards core borrowing services. Please continue to alert the Circulation desks to materials that you are unable to locate – we are still here to help!
September 28th, 2009 by Elin Waagen
The LIS Web Team is pleased to announce the unified LIS blog, a new and effective way to communicate with both our colleagues in LIS and with our community of users.
As part of the LIS web site make-over, the Web Team – with the support of our AD’s and our team sponsor – recommended that our many LIS blogs be combined into one. LIS website feedback this summer indicated that staff wanted it to be easier to find relevant work updates, and we think that having a unified LIS blog will help meet this need. (more…)
September 28th, 2009 by Elin Waagen
On Tuesday evening, September 29, there will be a screening of Mrs. Perkins’s Ball, a dramatization of William Makepeace Thackeray’s 1847 Christmas Book, written, staged and produced by Andy Wentink for WCET-TV in Cincinnati “a few years back.” The screening is for Andy’s class From George Washington to John Travolta: Social Dance in American History and Culture (AMST0283), but other viewers are welcome. The screening will be in AXINN229 from 7:30-8:30 p.m on Tuesday 9/29.
September 24th, 2009 by Elin Waagen
Web Team Meeting Agenda Thurs 10/1
LIS Landing Page ( Doreen moderating)
September 23rd, 2009 by Elin Waagen
Web team meeting agenda Thurs 9/24
Announcements etc.
Draft of one-blog announcement
Updates on work with our contacts – intersects, overlaps, team oversight over IA (not content)
Review Landing Page concept
Timeline – CMS freeze date for changes/additions
Curricular Technology – where in the IA?
Wiki training for our primary contacts?
From project timeline:
9/28 – Web Makeover Check-in with Project Manager
9/28 – Drupal Training for Project Managers
10/1 – Design staff workflow for moving content. Get feedback.
Week of 10/6 – Web Makeover – completed workbook due
September 17th, 2009 by Elin Waagen
Proposed meeting agenda Wed 9/23
Announcements etc.
How to launch the one-blog (categories and terminology should be resolved by now) – communication; training
Quick links – finalize how many and terminology
From previous agendas/discussions:
How will the LIS landing page point to the Blog?
Timeline – CMS freeze date for changes/additions
Updates on work with our contacts
Curricular Technology – where in the IA?
Wiki training for our primary contacts?
Permissions for primary contacts access on web makeover folder in middfiles?
From project timeline:
9/15 – Finalize platform improvement recommendations
9/28 – Web Makeover Check-in with Project Manager
9/28 – Drupal Training for Project Managers
10/1 – Design staff workflow for moving content. Get feedback.
Week of 10/6 – Web Makeover – completed workbook due
September 17th, 2009 by Elin Waagen
Voted yes on the one-blog readiness; will discuss how to launch at our next meeting.
Current categories listed below. Any change before we move ahead?
External Audience - term used TBD by vote by Fri 9/18 at 5 pm
Areas and Workgroups - use name of area as the category and use functions of the work area as tags (audience is mostly internal)
* Academic Consulting Services – research support, instruction, liaison
* Collection Management – aquire, catalog, preserve, maintain resources
* Enterprise Technology & Infrastructure – programming, systems, reporting, network
* LIS Administration – budget, planing, policy, assessment, strategy
* User Services – technology help and support, borrowing and lending, computing support, computing labs, media and event support
Institutions
* Middlebury
* MIIS
* Language Schools
* Schools Abroad
* Bread Loaf School of English
* Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
* MMLA
Teams
* Area Directors
* Curricular Technology
* Digitization
* LIS Website
September 17th, 2009 by Elin Waagen
Action to be taken following meeting with WW. Come up with possible quick links based on immediate needs of constituencies.
Decide on recommended terminology and number of quick links for the college website.
List just 2?
Library
Technical Support
Or more? If more than 2 – what should they be?
Media Services
Telephone Services
Please add your comments, ideas, suggestions to this post by 5 pm on Tuesday. Final vote at our Wed meeting.
September 14th, 2009 by Elin Waagen
Submitted by Elin Waagen
Senior thesis carrel sign-up started today – Monday, September 14. The first senior to be assigned a carrel arrived at the Main Library at 4 am; the 64th person arrived at 7 am for the 7:30 am opening of the library. By 10 am, 130 (out of 202) carrels had been assigned to the early-birds. Maura and Steve organized the event – with Morgan, Joanne, Rich, and Cassidy providing on-site support – ensuring another successful and orderly Carrel Monday – many thanks! I dream of the day that this process can be automated – much in the same way that we reserve our own airline seats
Thesis carrels at the Main Library can be reserved by seniors who are enrolled in a 500-, 600-, or 700-level thesis or independent project – and thesis carrels are first-come, first-served.
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