{"id":245,"date":"2013-02-27T10:47:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T15:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/?p=245"},"modified":"2013-02-27T10:47:35","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T15:47:35","slug":"redesigning-a-faculty-services-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/2013\/02\/27\/redesigning-a-faculty-services-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Redesigning a Faculty Services Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we start the process of redesigning a page on our library&#8217;s website that details various services available to faculty members. I thought it might useful to document that process a bit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some History<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The library here at Baruch College launched a redesigned website on December 26, 2012. Most of the work that went into the redesign focused on student needs. Now, we&#8217;d like to take some time to rethink how the services and resources of interest to the faculty are presented on the site. The text on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baruch.cuny.edu\/library\/faculty\/\">current &#8220;Faculty Services&#8221; page<\/a> is mostly the same text we had on the old site.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The short version: needs assessment, redesign, usability tests, tweak design as needed.<\/p>\n<p>The long version: Today, I meet with a five-person Committee on the Library, a body whose members are elected from departments across the three schools at Baruch (a business school, a school of arts and sciences, and a school of public affairs). To prepare for today&#8217;s meetings, I asked members to complete a three-question survey:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 15px;\">What are the top three tasks that you come to the library website for?<\/span><\/li>\n<li>What other reasons or tasks bring you to the library website?<\/li>\n<li>What brings you to the library website more: your own research needs or your teaching needs?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>At the meeting, I intend to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 15px;\">review the overall plan for redesigning the page<\/span><\/li>\n<li>review the results of my survey and a survey administered last fall to the faculty that focused on the value of the library<\/li>\n<li>do a card sorting exercise where I ask them to arrange cards featuring services and resources into piles that make sense to them (from this, I hope to discern a useful way to chunk the content on the page, to find better wording for that content, and to learn if there are any things I forgot or that I can forget)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After the meeting is over, I expect to do the following this semester:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 15px;\">work with our web design team to come up with a new layout and new text for the page<\/span><\/li>\n<li>make individual appointments with members of the Committee on the Library to have them do a traditional usability test that will likely take them to the redesigned faculty services page as well as other places on the website<\/li>\n<li>after analyzing the results of the usability tests, I&#8217;ll work with the web design team to further refine the faculty page<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I expect that the process will be completed this spring semester. As I complete steps in the plan, I&#8217;ll try to return to my blog to write up posts about how it&#8217;s been going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we start the process of redesigning a page on our library&#8217;s website that details various services available to faculty members. I thought it might useful to document that process a bit. 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