Content | Labeling | Features | Design & Navigation | Trends

Web Manual

Content

• Welcome and other selected content in different languages

• Survey or Quizlet: Tell Us how we’re doing, questions on single topic/issue

• Glossary of Library Terms in different languages

• Disability services (ADA compliant, Text-Only version)

• What’s new area: free trials and new materials, new services, content, special announcements

• Online tutorials (citing resources)

• Research guides for specific courses

• View my library record

• Separate reserve link

• Request forms to suggest new books, Web sites, etc.

• Electronic books

• List of journals (pdf, eventually searchable)

• Connecting from home with instructions about use of cookies

• List to current assignments

• Link to SCC and ability to request a book from SCC directly

• Link to Online Help (Help connecting, FAQs, +)

• Maps to each campus and location of each Library (SCC, CSULB, CSUF, +) including parking instructions

• Giving to the library

• Employment opportunities

• Services for students (Consult with a librarian – SAC students only, employment, library technology, +)

• Services for faculty (Consult with a librarian, value-added course assignments, library instruction, adding a library component to your online course, +)

• Library policies (laptop use, Internet policy, study room policy, +)

Labeling

• Meaningful labeled clusters for easy browsing

• Suggest a new book

• Find an article

• Tell us how we’re doing

• Catalog – Books we own or Find books

• Indexes – Newspaper, magazine, and journal articles or Find articles

• Research guides, Subject guides, Database guides, …

• Electronic resources – Reference tools

• Guides for specific courses

• Pathfinders - Guides on specific topics

• Recommended Web sites by Department – Guides to specific subjects/disciplines/departments

• Ask a librarian – Ask Reference and other request forms

• Course reserves by professor, by course

• Other libraries

• About …

• Services

• Online self-service: view library record, renew books, request books?

• Hours and Locations (maps?)

• Reference and Instruction

• Policies

• Giving to the library?

• Staff?

Features

• Bobby approved: http://www.cast.org/bobby/

• Usage statistical options and use of cookies

• Metadata coding

• Quicklinks pulldown menu to link to Admissions, Academic Departments, and Other Departments within our Division (CLI, Media, Faculty Development)

• Menus: rollover Javascript, etc.

• Dynamic pages for resource lists

• Site map/index

• Virtual reference services

• Library site search capability

• Cross database searching, i.e., OPAC, vendor databases, subject pages – Multi-find capability

• Link checking programs

• Calendar and schedules (computer classroom, reference desk, +)

Design and Navigation

• Use of Alt tags

• Use of tables, no frames

• Branding

• Minimal scrolling

• Homepage real estate

• Location clues for users, e.g., “you are here”

Trends

• Portals: http://my.lib.ncsu.edu/

• Electronic portfolios (University of Minnesota)

• Dynamic pages: http://www.library.vcu.edu/research/
  (click on one of the letters under Databases A-Z)

• Intranet Content ideas: http://www.infopeople.org/training/past
  (click on Planning Your Library Intranet)

Page URL: http://www.sac.edu/students/library/nealley/usability/wishlist.htm