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Tag: LIS Website
LIS website usability testing
The LIS Website team invites LIS Staff to help us out with our usability testing activities. Many of you have already been involved–either through your work during the building phases of our site, or by sending us feedback about the site–and we thank you for your input. We will be incorporating these observations into our […]…Continue Reading LIS website usability testing
Supported Web Browsers
I was asked as a member of the LIS Website Team to put together a quick post on supported web browsers for our site. In general our guideline for supporting a browser is to keep support for it for as long as the browser’s manufacturer is supporting it. This means we will try our best […]…Continue Reading Supported Web Browsers
No MIDCAT in new library site???
Many researchers are surprised and dismayed that there’s no easy way to get to MIDCAT in the new library site. There is!!! If someone can’t find MIDCAT, they’re probably using Internet Explorer version 6. In IE 6, the “Library Quick Search” portal–with MIDCAT, articles, journals and more–displays at the bottom of the front page rather […]…Continue Reading No MIDCAT in new library site???
Library Spotlight
The front page of the new library site (at http://midd2.middlebury.edu/academics/lib today, and at go/lib later tomorrow) has a “Library Spotlight” section that will feature news and tips for library users. The content will come straight from the LIS blog. Anything here that’s tagged “Library Spotlight” will show up there too.
If you know something that library […]…Continue Reading Library Spotlight
LIS Wiki Gets a Facelift
Not to be outdone by the College website’s extreme makeover tomorrow, the LIS Wiki got its own facelift today. To help our readers find what they need, it now features audience-specific collections of links to wiki content. Anyone still can search the wiki, but readers who prefer browsing now have a new option.
The LIS Website […]…Continue Reading LIS Wiki Gets a Facelift
New WordPress Themes
New WordPress themes have been added to WordPress at Middlebury. This blog has been updated to use Translucence, an interpretation of theme designs drafted by White Whale as part of the Web Redo project.
Translucence, like ShadowBox, is a theme series that includes a number of variations and options for layout. This blog is currently configured […]…Continue Reading New WordPress Themes