Thanks to everyone whose efforts contributed to a successful soft launch of the Libraries’ redesigned website. The New Design The LDPD Web team is continuing to roll out the new (and ever improving) design to all of the many Libraries’ web properties in advance of our official public launch in August. A few examples of […]
Libraries Website Assessments at the Assessment Forum
Join us at tomorrow's Assessment Forum from 3:30 – 5:00 in 523 Butler Library. My poster presentation highlights the assessment work we have done to inform the Libraries Website redesign and offers a very brief overview of the assessments we have planned for the next year. This summer we are gearing up to do Usability […]
New Site Up and Accessible to Contributors for Editing
The new Libraries Website is LIVE! We had an exciting weekend getting the site up and running. Content Contributors should have access to their pages now for editing. The WCM Login should be live on StaffWeb now. If you did not attend a contributor session, PLEASE NOTE: all the content has moved and the Information […]
Columbia University Libraries Website: Relaunching Summer 2013
The Libraries' website will be unavailable between 9:00pm and 10:00pm Sunday, June 2. This outage is necessary for the initial rollout of the Libraries' new website. Columbia University Libraries is launching a newly redesigned Libraries Website and a new version of CLIO! We encourage you to join the conversation by taking advantage of feedback opportunities […]
The Content Freeze and ReLaunch Have Begun!
The ReLaunch process is underway. We have a lot to do over the weekend to transition to the new site! The Libraries Website is now frozen and will be unavailable for editing until Monday. We will let you know when you can begin working on your pages again. […]
Subject & Research Guide Sidebars
You can now add links to and edit your subject guide sidebars (from the top-level subject guide page in your area, e.g. the sidebar for the "Art & Architecture Subject & Research Guides" page will be inherited by all the guides included as child pages below it). I added some standard links (Ask a Librarian, […]
Re-Launch Update & Information about the Content Freeze for all Libraries’ Websites
The Libraries Website is re-launching on Monday June 3rd. Between Sunday, 2 June, and Monday, 3 June, the Preview Site, http://preview-library.cul.columbia.edu/, will be transferred to http://library.columbia.edu/. Content will be frozen at 5:00 p.m. on Friday, 31 May 2013, for the Libraries Website (http://library.columbia.edu and http://preview-library.cul.columbia.edu), for Hours Manager (http://hours.library.columbia.edu/ and https://hours.cul.columbia.edu/admin/index.php), StaffWeb (https://culis.columbia.edu/), Alumni Friends […]
Featured Content Area Permissions & Other Information
Those with Locations Homepages (generally each top-level page that was formerly under the "indiv" directory) should be able to edit their featured content areas now. If you have problems doing so or have questions, please let us know. Also a number of you, and a number of faculty, have asked where to find the "Custom […]
Updates about editing the preview site…
We've been working on improving the editing environment. As I've been mentioning in the Contributor Sessions (time is running out to attend one before the soft launch!), some of the permissions were corrupted in the last "transformation" of content from the current site to the preview authoring environment. The following have been addressed: Activating […]
As you edit the Preview Site, keep in mind…
There are a number of things to keep in mind as you edit your pages in Preview: Resolver URLs will take you to the current pages (e.g., the Ask a Librarian resolver) until we go live. ALL the resolvers will be updated at one time when we switch the site over. Image captions cannot contain […]