1. Web Laboratory: Redesign as an Opportunity for Experimentation Heather Cook Reference Librarian Bergen Community College Yolanda Sheppard Web Master/ Technical Assistant Bergen Community College VALE/NJ ACRL/NJLA CUS Users’ Conference Thursday January 5, 2012

3. The Committee Formed Spring 2011 Diverse Group: ▫Dean of Library and Assistant Dean ▫Web Master ▫Innovative Interfaces Specialist ▫Metadata/Cataloging Librarian ▫Reference Librarian

4. Website Vision Statement The Library website will: Be accessible to all users, on all browsers, from all devices Provide access to all Library resources and services Adhere to the Bergen Community College website guidelines

5. Website Design Goals Navigation ▫All information within one click of the home page Easy to update and maintain ▫All pages reviewed/Updated every 6 months Every unique piece of information exists only once, but may appear many times

6. The Process What’s being done right now? ▫In Libraries and beyond Functionality at the center Major Concerns: ▫1. Navigation ▫2. Database subject sorting ▫3. Editing existing pages/Layout of home page Applied innovations and ideas from test website to current website

8. The Product Launched October 2011 70+ pages down to 35 Improved current website with problem solving ideas from the test website In the cloud: ▫Formsite, Libguides, Drupal, Google Calendar, Google Forms Link from the Library’s home page

9. Collaboration Before Meeting with IT Faculty Department chair Alternatives to SharePoint Suggested tools ▫Drupal  (ex. www.whitehouse.gov)www.whitehouse.gov ▫Microsoft Expression Web After Suggested some tweaks: ▫Fonts ▫Links to pages outside of site Plans to ask next semesters’ Web Design class to give feedback

10. Drupal Host Gator Drupal Gardens Web Hosting Application Hosting – Drupal VPS Hosting (Virtual Private Server) Easy and Affordable

12. Feedback Google Docs Forms- used to gather feedbackGoogle Docs Forms Link to feedback on test website Feedback received: ▫Suggestions, clarifications, confusing items, language issues, navigation

16. Where is the “My Library Account” link? -Faculty/Staff I like how everything is easier to access. -Student Database access should have its own box, not just a tab. -Faculty /Staff And perhaps the search for databases could be by keyword rather than subject? -Faculty/Staff I don’t think its much different from the former, but it’s a nice touch. -Student

17. Looking Toward the Future Keep in test phase and work on suggestions Useful exercise for editing, updating and finding solutions ‘outside of the box’ for the current website

18. Questions? Yolanda Sheppard ysheppard@bergen.eduysheppard@bergen.edu Heather Cook hcook@bergen.eduhcook@bergen.edu http://ssltestlibrary.net