Google presentation (part of google docs)
aim was to improve access to Deakin Library (website)
'get noticed get like google' or die
Methodology
- content inventory
- card sorting test (topic areas to logical applications)
- whiteboard prototyping
- user testing and review cycles
Header and left navigation menu compulsory design - part of university template.
Users didn't differentiate between web site and opac.
Orientation week vodcast - your library, your space
Subject guides (library guides) online
Use LibX, a firefox extension that can search the library if firefox is open (not necessarily open to library page)
nb:Firefox is the uni's browser of choice for students - it's on their enrolment dvd
Also has a link to Encore (Educational Network and Community for Open Resource Exchange)
Use IM (Meebo)
Internal library wiki
Facebook page
- from individual profile students can search library catalogue (in house developed widget)
- australia is 3rd fastest growing group on facebook
Future plans
- help via blog
- internal newsletter via blog
- Igoogle
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