Moving Forward

Thursday

This was a day of design! I finished up this poster (I am currently fresh out of design ideas), completed a month’s worth of new books digital signage, and then got caught up in administering the project I mentioned yesterday. The hiccup is still tying us all up and denying access. Hopefully tomorrow we can get it all sorted out. Meanwhile, I wrote up documentation and gave a few one-on-one training sessions for staff on the project. Then I continued work on the website.

Friday
I had a meeting with my boss so I spent some time prepping a list of questions to send ahead to him so he could be prepared for our meeting. In between I worked on cleaning up various aspects of the website (removed a page which had bullet points to other pages and replaced all of them with a single page with a much cleaner layout). While working on this particular clean up, I discovered some discripencies with the catalog and the website’s listings which I sent off emails to address.

My meeting with my boss went very well. I told him that I still lack a clear vision of what the front of the website should look like, but am moving towards removing the blog-like displays which the site hinges on. I am still taking us towards having landing pages for each major section (which will usually include a chat box). We agreed that we do not wish to employ sliders on the website.

After that meeting, I set about putting things in order that we had discussed. This led to a lengthy conversation about setting up a home page for book groups. At first, the staff member proposed creating a whole separate website, but after further inquiry, I realized that she probably only needs a few custom links and a landing page. I gave her instructions to carry out for her part of the project and this week I will set about working on my end. Then I talked to technical services to try sorting out an ILS problem that plagues us. I only took one semester in cataloging so I had to keep drilling for simpler clarification till I could understand the issue at hand. Hopefully I can try something on Monday to fix the problem.