Migration Schedule
The User Experience Department agrees with some of the comments that the web migration has gone on for too long and it is time to finish it. Most of the high use material has moved, but work remains. With the arrival of a new Web Manager work can accelerate in Spring 2015. Major work to be completed by July 2015:
- All exhibits will be reviewed for quality and use. Exhibits will either be migrated to Omeka or retired.
- Maps and the Lewis Walpole collection pages will be migrated to YaleSites.
- News items and the news archive will move to YaleSites.
- Subject librarians pages will be migrated and better integrated with Personal Librarians.
- All cataloging instructional content will move to YaleSites or Sharepoint.
Anyone with a concern about content that they know is on the old web server for which there is no planned migration should contact Steven Wieda or Meng Tang as soon as possible.
Guidelines for Usability and Accessibility
While only one person noted it, it is true that there is a lack of good, clear guidelines for staff, both for basic "how to" and also guidelines to help people create effective, usable web sites. This year we plan to improve our documentation. We have started a documentation site and will add to it and enhance it.
Training
There has been a lack of formal training. With most material moved to YaleSites, and with guidelines in place, staff should be empowered to have more control over editing their own web sites. To that end we will recommend a training program aimed at different levels of staff. We will work with ITS to ensure that staff have opportunities during the year to take classes in
- Writing for the web
- Usability and accessibility guidelines for the library web sites
- Using Google Analytics