UW Library Web Strategy - Draft
The UW Library website connects the UW community to content and services supporting learning, teaching, and research.
It offers users an engaging experience focused on their needs and tasks. The website facilitates scholarly communication and provides opportunities for users to contribute to knowledge discovery and creation. The web site maintainers respond to changing needs with a continuous cycle of feedback and assessment to provide a fruitful, functional, and enjoyable user experience.
Principles
- Focus on the user
- Ensure seamless access to resources
- less disjointed; more integrated
- Focus on user tasks
- rather than library departmental and format divisions
- Focus on user context
- write paper vs. find article. Adapt to how they work and think (living and learning)
- Highlight the most relevant content for primary users
- personalization/customization and make irrelevant content invisible to primary users, ie. separate the staff web from user tasks
- Develop personalizable web experiences
- barcode to Single Sign On
- Present ubiquitous opportunities for feedback
- Support a sense of community
- facilitate interaction amongst members of the UW community and beyond (e.g., Engine)
- Ensure accessibility
- Encourage intellectual curiosity and information discovery
- Inspire feelings of enjoyment, mastery, and occasionally surprise
- Teach critical evaluation and information literacy
- Present accurate authoritative information
- Facilitate access to quality academic content (integration)
- Engage with users to ensure that we are meeting our users needs
- Be efficient and sustainable
- Use resources efficiently
- Encourage collaborative development and production
- Encourage standards based and standards compliant tools and technologies
- Be innovative, creative, and interactive
- Be reliable and secure
- Ensure dependable infrastructure and disaster recovery
- Guarantee data integrity
- Explore digital preservation
- Respect and protect user privacy and security
Governance
Web Executive Board [WEB]: Members of the group will set project priorities and have reporting responsibility for the people who will be assigned to projects.
Web Ops
- Connect with staff in an ongoing way to ensure that we are getting broadly based input into the types of projects that we should pursue.
- Usability testing to connect to users and ongoing assessment are key components and are written into the job description for the new Emerging Technologies Librarian.
External Factors
Web Content Management System exploration out of Web Advisory for UCIST.
UW Identity and Marketing & Communications Task Force work will have consequences for the website.
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July 30, 2009
