What topics did they ask about?

• Wireless!
• Printing/Paper-cut
• In-person tech help
• MS Office
• Checking out materials
• Course hub/Moodle
• Library catalog
• Misc. computer questions: Ethernet vs wireless, Mac vs. PC, etc.
• Misc. questions about student life at Midd

Fernando was quite the recruiter for prospective Helpdesk student workers. It was a great chance to meet new students, to hear how their first week was going, and to learn how to respond to some of the most common tech-troubleshooting questions.

Find this CHAT link on the Library page (go/lib) or on the Ask a Librarian page (go/askus)

Chat Reference is available during regular library walk-in reference hours.

And as the illustration shows, you may still contact us via text, email, or phone.

If you are interested in helping, please fill out this sign-up form. (Available dates and times are listed on the form.)

The groups will be small (6-10 participants), and free pizza and cookies will be available at all sessions. The one-hour sessions will be recorded (audio), but participants’ responses will be kept anonymous.

We hope you’ll sign up! If you have additional questions, please contact us:

LIS Website Team Members
liswebteam@middlebury.edu

Dan Frostman
Jess Isler
Richard Jenkins
Matt LaFrance
Barbara Merz

In the DSpace repository, you’ll also find previous years’ submissions, back to 2007-2008, which is when we began experiment with “ETDs” (“electronic theses & dissertations”).

Submissions are tracked and uploaded, along with metadata (including title, author, summary, subject headings), by LIS cataloging staff — this year, Sue Driscoll. (In the past, other staff who have helped include Michael Warner, Marlena Evans, and Richard Jenkins.)

Take a look to find intriguing research in a wide-range of topics and academic areas.

On a related note: print copies of Honors theses, some master’s theses, and DML theses (Doctor of Modern Languages) continue to be stored in the College Archives, housed in the Library’s Special Collections area. Titles and authors can be found here. Contact Andy Wentink or Danielle Rougeau to view these items.

• improved Google search has recently been implemented on the whole Middlebury site, which has already made searching for LIS content much easier

• a revised structure for the LIS Help & Support web pages

• improved directory search results, so search “by department” displays the job titles for all members of the department. For example, the listing for all LIS staff

• site banners that currently say “Library and Information Services” will soon display additional text for clearer branding of the different LIS website sections

• quick links navigation items are now standardized across all parts of the LIS web presence

• better color use in the “leaf” color theme for improved legibility

• templates for the LIS blog that align with the Drupal site, with new design options for the LIS wiki in progress

• on-page search boxes for pages that include sub-page lists is now labeled “Find on this page:” to distinguish from site-wide search boxes

• added links to check ILL requests in My MIDCAT

• a simpler format for pages that link to multiple forms for clearer and easier navigation. For example: Collection Management Forms

Remember, there’s also an option for anyone to report issues with a page using the Problems with this Page? button, and you can get in touch with LIS Content Managers by finding them at go/liscm.

What’s next? We’re moving on from following-up on the old recommendations to working on marketing strategies for the site, and soon afterward, another round of testing, likely in the form of a user needs analysis and more usability testing. Feel free to send us feedback any time. Thanks!

Try doing a MIDCAT genre search for Faculty authors, and you’ll see all the titles that currently appear on the shelves of the Davis Library faculty authors section.

We’ve probably missed some titles, so faculty members, if there is a title missing from this list, let me know, and I’ll add the field to the record.

Richard
rjenkins@middlebury.edu

• Serve as main contact persons for questions about their sections of the site
• Ensure their section of the site is current and accurate (which may involve delegating tasks to others).
• Be aware of formatting, style, and other conventions used on the LIS/College web site and follow them when making changes.
• Keep current with the necessary skills and tools do this (or receive training)
• Consult with stakeholders before implementing major refresh & enhancements.

The team has created a wiki page (go/liswebcm) that  describes the role of the content manager, lists the names of content managers and the areas for which they are responsible, describes tools they can use to maintain content, and includes an FAQ section for anyone who may visit this page looking for answers. There is now also a “Problem with this Page?” link on each LIS page which can be used to communicate with the content managers about issues with pages such as broken links, misspellings, outdated content, etc.

We’d like to emphasize that content managers are not the only ones who make contributions to and work with the LIS website. The purpose of this contact list was to create quick access to specific “go-to” people responsible for the major parts of the site so that LIS staff would not have to spend much time determining whom to contact with questions.

If you have responsibility for a sub-section of the website, your content manager is not superseding you–you’re still responsible–but now you will hear from your content manager when you have to fix broken links, or when a design change needs to be made. More granular permissions for LIS pages in Drupal are managed using web data groups.

This is a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women’s history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, the collection  currently includes 91 document projects and archives with more than 3,600 documents and 150,000 pages of additional full-text documents, and more than 2,060 primary authors. It also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools.