Web Advisory Group

Content Inventory: New MIT Libraries Web Site
Category Detail List

Home Page

(the order is random for now - has yet to be decided)

Navigation Bar

Searchable Resources
Subject/course-related information
About the Libraries
Services
Library News & Updates

News headlines "spotlight" that changes once a week or more often - who will keep up to date?

Photos of libraries (changing) - get new photos taken

Search button to Barton
Search button to Databases/Ejournals (Vera)
Search button for searching this web site

Consider button to all forms - we're still debating this

Links to each library

Links to each library department - need to create some new pages

Links to pages for: faculty, alumni, visiting researchers, non-MIT users (various user groups)

- these can be created gradually over time

A - Z index of site

 

Searchable Resources

(include search boxes on more pages than this one)

Search for MIT Library Materials:

MIT Books: Barton
Books: WorldCat
Journals at MIT: Barton
Articles from journals: Databases & Electronic Journals

Links to "choosing the best databases for your topic" - needs to be created
Link to "translations of journal articles"

Patents
Newspapers
Foreign Language Newspapers
Films & Videos
Statistical Data
Technical Reports
Theses

Search Library Staff Listings - need better system - waiting for policy decision

Search this Web Site

Search engine
A to Z index of pages - Nicole will create and maintain this

Search by subject:

Aeronautics/Astronautics
Art
Architecture
Biology, Medicine, Neuroscience
Business & Management, etc.
(complete subject list here)

Off-campus access to our searchable resources

explanation of policy and link to how to get certificates - new FAQ is done

(Consider adding searchable lists of new books later)

 

Subject/Course-Related Information

By course number

Links to librarian-created pages for specific courses - add more as we create them
(include cross-ref links to subject pages)
Link to web.mit.edu page listing faculty-created pages

http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/org/a/acs/www/acaduses2.html

Ask them to list our pages on this page also.

By subject (A-Z)

Links to subject pages - subject pages group is working on guidelines/template
(include cross-ref links to course pages)

Bibliographic style guides

Listing by subject - do we have this? ask Nina

Course reserves

Link to "e-reserves" project
Link to reserves policies
Link to Reserve Book Room - they have a new page

Thesis help

Links to specifications for thesis preparation
Link to digital thesis library

 

About the Libraries

Mission

Locations (map)

Hours:

Separate pages that can be viewed all at once here, or linked to individually from each library

Collections

description of collections
include list of staff member who collects for each subject - sub specs? (J. Banks is making a newly updated list)

Employment

Staff Listings (include photos? ­ controversial!)

Exhibits in the libraries (archives, art, etc.)

Equipment in the libraries - Shana has new page

Gifts of materials to the MIT Libraries

Copyright Policies

Annual Reports of the Libraries

FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions

(make sub-faqs of this that can be linked to from elsewhere: off-campus access, Barton faqs, services, etc.) - whole thing needs to be updated and revised

Libraries:

Aeronautics & Astronautics Library
Barker Engineering Library
Dewey Library
Humanities Library
Institute Archives and Special Collections
Lewis Music Library
Lindgren Library
Reserve Book Room
RSC: Retrospective Collection
Rotch Library
Rotch Visual Collections
Schering-Plough Library
Science Library

(include links to virtual tours of each library) - music lib tour is almost done, can be used as a model for others
(includes photos of interior/exterior shots of each library)
(include floor plans of each library)

Departments: - are these the correct names?

Office of the Director
Administrative Services
Bibliographic Access Services
Collection Management Services
Document Services
Hayden Circulation
Lincoln Laboratory Library Liaison Office
Serials and Acquisitions Services
Systems Office

Related Departments:

Independent Libraries and Reading Rooms at MIT
MIT Press

Comments: (link to this from lots of pages in footer, instead of mailto links)

Suggestion box (a general one and links to one for each library)

consider adding Barton under "about the libraries" - it will probably be in nav bar anyway

 

Services

Reference services:

Ask a Reference Question
Library Instruction

Links to schedules of classes, how to get individual help, web-based training, etc.

Orientation
Research Assistance: Reference Desk Hours/Office Hours - new page almost done
Database searching (Computerized Literature Search Service)
Table of Contents Service (UnCover Reveal) (should it go here? if not, where?)

Getting MIT Materials

Bookpage
Circulation: overal circ. policy here and links to each libıs circ. poliices
Electronic Reserves
Interlibrary Lending
Retrospective Collection Delivery
Suggested Purchases
Copies of MIT Publications $ (Document services)

Getting non-MIT Materials

Interlibrary Borrowing
Access to Non-MIT Libraries:

Harvard, BLC, Reciprocal Faculty Borrowing Program

Policies and Special Services for: - lots of new pages need to be created here

MIT students
MIT faculty
MIT staff
MIT alumni
Visiting researchers
Non-MIT users (library visitors)
Persons with disabilities

Forms: - we are debating whether "forms" as a category makes sense - almost everything will have a form eventually

BookPage
RSC: Retrospective Collection Delivery
ILB: Interlibrary Borrowing
OWL: Ask a Reference Question
Suggested Purchases

Photocopiers in the libraries

Scanning & Photographic Services (Document Services)

Copies of MIT Publications (Document Services)

 

Library News & Updates (with weekly "spotlight" headlines on home page)

Whatıs New in the Libraries

News page in html (updated frequently)
pdf version of our printed newsletter (comes out 2 times per year)

Email updates

Sign up for email updates of library news
Sign up for email announcements of new databases and e-journals
Sign up for email announcements of new books by subject

Library news:

Aero/Astro
Archives
Barker
Dewey
Humanities
Lewis Music
Lindgren
Rotch
Rotch Visual Collections
Science
Schering-Plough

New Acquisitions:

Library-wide virtual resources:

Databases
Electronic Journals
Electronic Books

New materials in specific libraries:

Aero/Astro
Archives
Barker
Dewey
Humanities
Lewis Music
Lindgren
Rotch
Rotch Visual Collections
Science
Schering-Plough

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Staff web

Help reorganize home page of staff web

Reorganize Web Advisory Group Page
Create new guidelines for web authors

Decide how to separate public content from internal content (esp. Collection Services)

 

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