Reloaded: Technical Services Staff Site
The Technical Services Staff Web Site has been refreshed with updated content, interface, and navigation and transitioned into the Libraries’ SharePoint site. The previous site was outdated, difficult to navigate and cumbersome to maintain. A project proposal for updating the site was submitted and discussions on content and user interaction began.
The Libraries’ SharePoint site was chosen to improve content updating by not relying on a central “Web Author” and by providing a browser interface requiring no HTML/CSS knowledge. Directories can be mounted on personal desktops for easy updating of documents. In addition permissions can be managed through the interface and can be assigned as fine as item level. SharePoint also provides the added benefit of Wikis, Web Parts (blocks of content), Notifications on content updates and many other options. In order to simplify the presentation and improve recognition of navigation elements a new SharePoint theme was created.The new site has been handed over to TS and with minimal staff training content updates are now occurring.
