The Redesigned Library IT Web Site

At the beginning of this month, Library IT’s Web Team deployed a redesigned version of the Library IT website (http://www.library.illinois.edu/it/) in a soft launch.

Work on this new site was a collaborative effort among  members of the Library Help Desk and the Library Web Team, in consultation with a host of Library faculty and staff that contributed suggestions on how to improve the site to better serve Library needs. The Help Desk accrued feedback regarding the prior Library IT website over the past several years, leveraged those suggestions to reorganize the Help Desk section of the Library IT Web Site, and subsequently worked with the Web Team to expand the organizational structure and aesthetic and apply it to the entire Library IT web site.

In addition to feedback received from Library Faculty and staff, we also liberally borrowed from many of our Library colleagues’ designs of their own unit sites. Thank you all for your help! While we hope Library IT’s website is easier to navigate and use, we acknowledge it will further benefit from ongoing review and improvements. We welcome your comments, questions, and suggestions for improvement. Please send them to webmaster@library.illinois.edu.

Some new and/or improved features include:

Easy to locate contact information on each Library IT page

screen shot showing placement of Contact Us and Personel Sections of new web site

Improved, consistent left-hand side navigation

Screen shot showing left hand site wide navigation

Continuity among various IT team pages

Screenshots of various IT Unit pages

Systems Status & Scheduled Maintenance Page (including links to CARLI and CITES pages)

System Status Page

A page dedicated to partnerships

Screenshot of the partnership page