2019-01-16 Website Content Strategy

Date

Jan 16, 2019

Participants

  • @Cynthia Schwarz (Unlicensed)

  • @David Lacy

  • @Nancy Turner

  • @Jackie Sipes

  • @Rachel Cox (Unlicensed)

  • @Chris Doyle

Goals

  • Should services be required to have an associated group? Can they be associated with a person or have no association at all?

Discussion topics

Notes

Notes

Content description process

  • this is an opportunity for the library to present itself in a new way

  • throughout the process of writing services, the group should also recognize opportunities to fill out descriptions of policies, spaces and collections

Services in Charles

  • identify services that will change in Charles or for which we are uncertain of how they will change

  • still create an outline of the service description and leave blanks for information that we know we need to fill in.

  • create a way to notate something as being in “draft” form on the website

Web Content Strategy Group structure

  • Katie Westbrook

  • Beckie Dashiell

  • Jackie Sipes

  • Cynthia Schwarz

  • Rachel Cox

  • David Lacy and Nancy Turner as links to LLC

Service description writing process

  1. Using the spreadsheet of revised services and categories, create a Google Doc for each service

  2. On the Google Doc, copy and paste all of the content that describes that service from across our current web environment and anything that has been written for the new website to date.

  3. Refine and revise the collated information according to the Web Content Style Guide

  4. Send refined and revised copy to the service stakeholders for review

  5. Schedule a meeting with the service stakeholders if necessary to discuss the service description

Action items

@Cynthia Schwarz (Unlicensed) will call together a meeting of the Content Strategy Group next week.
@Cynthia Schwarz (Unlicensed) will contact the group of library stakeholders that was present at the web writing workshop to discuss this change in the process forward for writing service descriptions

Decisions