Moving from one room to another: EPSRooms project at Leicester

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Moving from one room to another EPS/Rooms
project at Leicester

• Janet Guinea
• jcg9_at_leicester.ac.uk

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Overview

• How weve been supporting the academic community
  to date
• Where we could improve
• What EPS Rooms 2 offer
• The migration process
• audience
• taxonomy and content
• templates and design

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Supporting students and academics

• Catalogue iLink
• Subject pages (Rooms 1.7)
• Library web site
• E-Resources
• 16000 e only journal titles on resolver
• 10000 NetLibrary ebook subscription
• Ebook purchases
• OpenURL link resolver
• Federated search

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Library Survey room for improvement

• LibQUAL TM
• Library website enabling me to locate information
  on my own
• Providing the e-resources I need (for study/for
  work)
• Easy to use tools that allow me to find things on
  my own
• Though our Postgrad minimum expectations higher
  than benchmark average!

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EPS and Subject Rooms - Users

• Search is key - Focus on search and retrieval
• Navigation
• Subject oriented
• One interface (library web presence, catalogue,
  databases)
• New library look and feel
• CMS Applications
• RSS on campus s/w
• Authentication (federated searches)

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EPS and Subject Rooms - Builders

• Easy to use room/content builder
• Wider involvement with library divisions e.g.
  Public Services
• Subject Rooms (migrate content from Rooms 1.7
  thanks SD)
• Concerns about no more catalogue
• Rooms pilot dual running from summer 2007
• Usability testing from October

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Migration process

• 2 day Workshop
• Audience - Define target audience
• Revisit hierarchy and define new taxonomies
• Fixed templates (wireframe approach) for
  consistency
• Layout and design
• Images, documents, procedures

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Audience

• Consider typical user persona
• Understanding the needs of our users
• Differ with each room
• E.G. Medicine and Health
• Candid quote Medics only
• A medical room for medical people

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Taxonomy
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New subject depth, sustainable?

• Biological Sciences
• Biochemistry
• Antimicrobial biochemistry (antibiotics)
• Cell signalling
• Enzymes
• Macromolecules
• Proteins
• Bioinformatics
• Programming languages
• Databases
• Gene and genome analysis .....

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Templates - wireframe
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Images and Design