[Web4lib] Library Website Development

[Turner,Kathleen]

Yitzchak,
 
The books already recommended are great suggestions, but also check out John Kupersmith's web site "Library Terms that Users Understand", http://www.jkup.net/terms.html.  Visual design is one thing, but choosing the best terminology to label the links for your services and resources is another.  This won't necessarily give you the answers, but will give you a lot of ammunition for the inevitable debates about "what to call those things we used to call indexes that you use to find journal articles".
 
Kathleen
 
Kathleen Turner
Hagerty Library
Drexel University
khturner at drexel.edu

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From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org on behalf of Amy Drayer
Sent: Wed 11/21/2007 12:35 PM
To: Yitzchak Schaffer
Cc: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Library Website Development



Dear Yitzchak:

We recently redesigned our library site; a summary document can be found at:
http://e.jocolibrary.org/library/docs/pdf/JoCoLibraryWebRedesignResults.pdf

or from the article at:
http://www.jocolibrary.org/templates/JCL_NewsListItem.aspx?id=3359

For literature, I would recommend:

"Web ReDesign 2.0: Workflow That Works" by Goto & Cotler
"Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability" by
Steve Krug (for inspiration)
"Web Site Usability Handbook" by Mark Pearrow (for actual usability guidelines)

Good luck! :-)

--
In peace,

Amy M. Drayer
Web Interface Designer
amostrom at gmail.com
http://www.puzumaki.com <http://www.puzumaki.com/> 


On Nov 21, 2007 9:55 AM, Yitzchak Schaffer <yitzchas at touro.edu> wrote:
> Greetings web4libns:
>
> Touro has decided that it's time to overhaul our libraries' website.
> Can anyone recommend literature relating to website/IA design process
> (user studies, log analysis from existing site, web committees...), or
> share experience?
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