Archive for the ‘LIS Website’ Category
November 19th, 2009 by Carrie Macfarlane
We’d like to get some quick feedback on 2 potential changes to the left-hand menu in the new library site. If you go the library site in Drupal (under development!), you can see how these changes would look.
- Change the name “Library Departments” to “Contact Us.” The purpose of this page is to give users quick access to departments like Reserves, Interlibrary Loan, Collection Management, etc. Using the word “Contact” in the name of the page brings more attention to the page, we think. It also might allow us to remove the long list of contact info that otherwise could be needed on the library collections pages.
- Create a new subpage under “Library Collections” called “Collections,” and nest pages like College Archives, Government Documents and Digital Collections in it. This decreases the number of subpages under “Library Collections” to 6. White Whale recommends no more than 8 subpages, and without this change, “Library Collections” has 11. We considered nesting some of the collections under “Main Library,” but we think that nesting them under “Collections” gives them a little more prominence.
We think these changes will make it easier for most users to find what they’re looking for. Do you agree?
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 18th, 2009 by Alex Chapin
I attended part of the LIS website team meeting today and gave a presentation of the ShadowBox theme and some of the new features that will be available in the next version including updates to author pages, more custom header options and most importantly, higher contrast text in comment fields. I also gave a preview of some new ShadowBox variations based on the new college website design. Below is a screencast from that meeting:
November 16th, 2009 by Elin Waagen
Web Team Agenda Wed 11/18 10 – 11 am in Voter West
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November 11th, 2009 by Jess Isler
On Monday, Barbara, Elin, and I attended the NERCOMP Workshop: Usability in Libraries and Beyond at UMass Amherst. (more…)
November 10th, 2009 by Elin Waagen
Agenda 11/11 – 12
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November 5th, 2009 by Elizabeth Whitaker-Freitas
November 3rd, 2009 by Elin Waagen
LIS Web Team Meeting Agenda 11/4 and 11/5
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October 28th, 2009 by Carrie Macfarlane
Agenda 10/29/09
Timekeep, notetake, moderate, drive
Announcements
Permissions and workflow for LIS content
11/9 – deliverables on timeline
October 28th, 2009 by Barbara Merz
Should we change the blog categories in any way? Should “*The Essentials” remain the default?
Rational – it can be confusing to use the current categories. See what is categorized currently as essential and what is not.
Some suggestions:
1) *The Essentials is not needed. All readers should subscribe to the whole blog and pick what they’re interested in cp. reading sections of newspapers or subscribing to any other blog.
2) or should the default category just be changed to “Areas and Workgroups” i.e. LIS centric with action required to categorize as “*The Essentials”
3) and/or should “*The Essentials” be renamed “*The Essentials (all campus)”
October 28th, 2009 by Elin Waagen
October 22nd, 2009 by Jess Isler
Team, please find the new article here, and have at it!:
LIS Website Information Architecture
(Also linked from our team wiki page.)
FYI: This follows the IA documents White Whale created for other parts of the College web redo project. It’s primarily a high-level guide to page & subpage structure, not a detailed list of page contents (though there are some content recommendations in the notes sections). See middfiles:\orgs\WebMakeover\IA Documents for examples (I used Academics when creating the wiki page.)
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 15th, 2009 by Carrie Macfarlane
Hi everyone in LIS,
We have a preliminary outline of content, otherwise known as Information Architecture or IA, for the new Library web page (aka the new version of http://go.middlebury.edu/lib). We need your feedback.
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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.
October 7th, 2009 by Barbara Merz
Do we want to broaden the the web team’s charge to include “communications within LIS”?
Can we clarify what this means!? We have already proposed the LIS one blog as a major communication tool. To consider communications more broadly probably should involve gathering info about current communications, discussion of what various LIS ares/departments/staff need and want etc. etc. Is this something that should happen now?
Comment here!!
October 2nd, 2009 by Doreen Bernier
Minutes?
Timekeeper?
Announcements
Discussion on workflow planning
Set agenda for next meeting
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
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