Review of Services
We recently created a comprehensive list of services. Related entities have been identified and now individuals and small groups are working on describing the services. This is a very involved process that involves a lot of people and will likely take us up to the beta launch of the site to complete all of the service descriptions.
This week, I achieved a personal milestone in this project. After months of explaining this project to others while trying to gain an in-depth understanding myself, I overheard a (non-tech) colleague perfectly explain the project to another group of library staff.
Production website
Work continues on structuring the website to handle the relationships between all of the entities. For example, one person can belong to many groups, groups can have many people and a service happens in a space which lives in a building. Many thanks to Steven Ng, Chris Doyle and Chad Nelson for working out these complicated relationship dynamics.
Design of the Library Website
The core design team is closing in on a design that we think will work. Concurrently, we are working on outlining a page structure what what will need to go on each page and sub-page. Many thanks to the entire core design team, but especially Rachel Cox and Gabe Galson for their work on this.
Read past updates on the website project.
Review of Services
A comprehensive list of services has been created and a cross-disciplinary group is now reviewing these services and listing out other entities related to each service. Other entities include related people, related groups (committees/departments), related spaces, related buildings and other related services.
Person/Group/Space/Building Entities
These entities and the lists thereof are being finalized and will be added to the website shortly.
Production website
A very primitive replacement website is up and running. Currently, it has no design and very little content. Next steps include populating content and beginning to add some design elements.
Design of the Library Website
The core design team is made up of Rachel Cox, Gabe Galson, Jackie Sipes and Cynthia Schwarz. We meet weekly to discuss design elements of the website and review mockups and prototypes. Much of the design decisions thus far are based on 1) results from the user survey conducted Fall of 2017, 2) click tracking on our current website conducted Fall of 2017. Once we have a satisfactory prototypes, we will test with library patrons to either confirm or disprove our assumptions.