Back-to-school mobile snapshot

This week I took a look at mobile phone usage on the VCU Libraries website for the first couple weeks of class and compared that to similar time periods from the past couple years. 2015 Here’s some data from the first week of class through today. Note that mobile is 9.2% of web traffic. To round […]

Easier access for databases and research guides at VCU Libraries

Today VCU Libraries launched a couple of new web tools that should make it easier for people to find or discover our library’s databases and research guides. This project’s goal was to help connect “hunters” to known databases and help “gatherers” explore new topic areas in databases and research guides1. Our web redesign task force […]

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A new look for search at VCU Libraries

This week we launched a new design for VCU Libraries Search (our instance of Ex Libris’ Primo discovery system). The guiding design principles behind this project: Mental models: Bring elements of the search interface in line with other modern, non-library search systems that our users are used to. In our case, we looked to e-commerce websites […]

Vacation photos with a disposable camera

I took last week off and went on two short outdoorsy trips with friends. Rather than document the trips solely with my phone, as I’ve done lately, I decided to buy a couple of disposable film cameras and see how it went. Sometime around 2004 I gave up film cameras and went all-digital. Ten years later, it was with […]

Liftoff: Women’s health research portal launch

VCU Libraries got some press this week with the official launch of the Women’s health portal, built in cooperation with folks at the Institue for Women’s Health at VCU. I led the web portion of this project, working closely with 28 Media, a local web firm that did the WordPress theme design. This project got […]