• 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which can be used to communicate with the content managers about issues with pages such as broken links, misspellings, outdated content, etc.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.

Each URL that you enter will add to the search query using the “inurl” syntax. What this means is that your search results will be scoped to include only those pages that have that text in their URL. In the example above, the search will only return results from the LIS website, the LIS wiki, and the LIS blog. This would leave out the Library, Helpdesk, and Curricular Technology site, so a real example would include those URLs as well.

You don’t have to use the full URL either. You can use a domain, like www.middlebury.edu, to limit search results to just our main website. Or you can use a word, like “fellowships” which will include results from any page with that word in its URL.

The search form that a person visiting your site sees in compact and displays up to eight results as they type their search query, like the new Google Instant search does on Google’s website. Try it out on our News Archives site.

Feedback is welcome, so let me know if you have any questions about this or suggestions for improving this service.