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Library Instruction
Services Redesign
Danielle Skaggs
Fall 2006
Presentation Overview
Site and Project Introduction
 Initial Site Design
 Redesign Tasks
 Project Statistics
 Next Time. . .
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Library Instruction Services (LIS):
For Librarians Subsite
Provide content and information about
services
 Key content:
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 Tips
and Techniques for Library Instruction
 Instruction “Clearinghouse”
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Audience primarily internal – “librarians
involved with instruction at UT” per User
Model
Information Architecture Tools
Visio
 Dreamweaver 8
 Fireworks
 Web Developer Firefox extension
 UT Color Scheme
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Redesign Tasks
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Create global/local navigation to help
users form mental model (Modjeska & Marsh, 1997;
Nielsen, 2003)
Change labels for clarity
 Add html “preview” files for browsing ease
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(Krug, 2000)
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Create a sitemap, no search box (Rosenfeld,
2002)
Project Facts
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49 total pages (32 in Tips section)
CSS-styled table layout (Project Seven tutorial)
Validated - XHTML 1.0 Transitional & CSS
(Dreamweaver & Firefox)
Accessibility errors (Bobby)
 Same
link text with different URLs
 Separate adjacent links with more than whitespace
Next Time Around I’d. . .
Rework the Tips local navigation
 Focus less on my current skills during
design phase
 Integrate more aspects of IA into focus
(limit scrolling, text readability)
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(Nielsen, 1997)
References
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Krug, S. (2000). How we really use the Web. In Don’t make me think
(chapter 2). Indianapolis, Ind: Que Publishing.
http://www.sensible.com/chapter.html
Modjeska, D., & Marsh, A. (1997). Structure and Memorability of
Web Sites. Toronto: Computer Science Research Institute of the
University of Toronto.
Nielsen, J. (2003, November 10). The Ten Most Violated Homepage
Design Guidelines. In Alertbox: Current issues in web usability.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20031110.html
Nielsen, J. (1997, October 1). How users read on the web. In
Alertbox: Current issues in web usability.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9710a.html
Rosenfeld, L., & Morville, P. (2002). Information architecture for the
world wide web (2nd ed.). Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly & Associates.
Site URL
http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~instruct/librarian.html