Mike Roy, Dean of Library and Information Services, announced last week that White Whale has been chosen as the web design company to partner with us on our joint web makover project. White Whale will visit Monterey on April 2. You may see them wandering around campus, and they’ll hold an open meeting at 11 a.m. in the Board Room for anyone interested in hearing about their approach to this project.
We anticipate that a new public-facing website for MIIS will be launched in August. Middlebury’s public site will launch in December. Portal-like functionality for members of each campus community is expected to become available sometime during the next academic year. Much of the work of building the new sites for both Middlebury and Monterey is on the shoulders of the excellent technical team at Middlebury. Kristen Byers, Digital Media Specialist, will serve as the project manager for work at MIIS, which will revolve, this summer, around developing the content for the new site. We will be looking to many of you to help us tell our story.
White Whale will focus on design and information architecture, helping us to achieve a high degree of usability, while providing us with a new look that will express out uniqueness and at the same time identify visually our connection to Middlebury .