Signage Committee Presentation to Kinesiology 470E, May 2002
Details:
| Class |
Kinesiology 470E
Seminar in Integrative Ergonomics |
| Professor |
Richard Wells (x 3069; wells@healthy) |
| # of students |
15-20 |
| Date/time |
May 15, 2002 |
| Where |
DC Conference Room |
Additional questions/answers for Richard:
- Do the students work in groups? Yes, 3 or 4 groups
- How does this project fit in to the course outline? Gets set up early
and is due at the end of term
- How much time do they have to work on it? all term – is
major assignment for the class
Format: [15 minute presentation, plus questions/answers]
Introduce presenters by name - Sharon Lamont & Sharon Bissonnette
- explain our role as members of the Signage Committee
- format - 3 parts:
-
- presentation of the project and background
- questions/answers
- tour of Library
Part 1 - background
- the task of the Signage Committee
- briefly outline our work to-date (2 key projects):
- new user study in Dana Porter Library
- directional questions survey in Davis and Porter Libraries
- show Signage web-site - URL and route from Library home page
-
- home
- mandate
- membership
- report
- studies
Part 2 - the project Talk through the handout (next
page)
Davis Centre Library
Design Project
The Library's Problem:
students have trouble negotiating the Davis
Library without assistance, due to poor site-lines and a layout that is
not intuitive
The Issue:
The Davis Library needs a signage system. Current signage is a haphazard
array that generally is inadequate in serving library users - see web-site:
- Davis signage inventory
- directional questions survey
The Constraints:
- different types of signs we need
- permanent location
- information is also permanent (e.g. identification signs, such
as departments, collections, facilities, floor maps)
- information changes, such as current library hours
- instructional
- temporary location
- such as event announcements, security alerts
- signs should be free of library jargon, negative language, condescending
tone
Web-site URL:
http://library.uwaterloo.ca/staff/signage/index.html
Contacts:
Sharon Lamont
Chair, Library Signage Committee
University of Waterloo Library
phone: 519-888-4567 ext. 3519
email: sljlamon@library.uwaterloo.ca
Sharon Bissonnette
phone: 519-888-4567 ext. 2458
email: smbisson@library.uwaterloo.ca
Signage Committee
December 6, 2005
