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Praxis
Provide information and support communications focused on the practice
of librarianship at Cowles Library.
Wake Forest University
Praxis (working title) Objective:Provide information and support communications focused on the practice of librarianship at Cowles Library.
Concept:The site is scholarly and professional in tone and appearance.
Audiences:Primarily external to the Library, the audiences are expected to include Drake faculty and administrators, the library profession, Advancement, Marketing, potential donors, Drake students, accreditation teams, faculty or other job applicants, and other interested parties.
Typical Information Architectures (Web)
Audience Based
What are the audiences for the site?What tasks do each group need to do that are unique?What tasks or info overlap between groups?
Task Based
What are the most common tasks?What are vital tasks?
Hierarchy Based
Do you have a structure that works better than audience/task?Is this structure understood by and obvious to the audience?
Content
• EXISTING– Mission (Vision)– Planning– Assessment– Building Master Plan– Blog– Trends– LibQual+– Knowledge Notes– Support Cowles
• POSSIBLE– Documents &
Presentations – Innovations (What’s New)– Liaison– Faculty/Professional
• Library Faculty Documents• Faculty/Professional
Activities• Faculty/Professional Home
Pages• Faculty/Professional Blogs
Proposal: Existing Content
• Site Inventory
– Locates all pages on site– Assigns appropriate
pages to Praxis, RSL, Drake Collections
– Identify ROT content
• Content Inventory Praxis– Assigns pages (content)
to audience– Seeks to expose
relationships between audience and content to find ‘natural’ categories for the architecture
Discussion: “Possible Content” & Building a Culture of Communication
• POSSIBLE– Documents &
Presentations – Innovations (What’s New)– Liaison– Faculty/Professional
• Library Faculty Documents• Faculty/Professional
Activities• Faculty/Professional Home
Pages• Faculty/Professional Blogs
• Utilizing a content strategy to achieve goals
A Strategic Approach to Content
• CONTENT STRATEGY– Analysis
• Analyze existing• Content = “information
that meets user concerns”
• Create content to achieve goals
– Editorial• Create, maintain• Credible, original, quality
– Architecture
• GOALS (Praxis)– Build a culture of
communication by• Engaging with Drake
faculty– Information that meets
user concerns» Grading & rubrics» Plagiarism» Scholarly
publishing» Classroom
technology