Category Archives: Meetings

Status report and catalog demo

By Jay Collier | Published: December 7, 2008
At Monday’s meeting, we’ll take a look at the social features of Bates’ new library catalog prototype, and preview a presentation updating the President’s Council on our recent work. Monday, December 8, 11-12 145 Nichols Street — Jay Collier
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Transformation

By Jay Collier | Published: November 10, 2008
Over the past two years, you have all expressed interest in Bates’ Web presence, and many of you have joined us for meetings of the Bates Web Roundtable. Thank you! Based on your input — and ideas from our listening sessions earlier in the year — my students and I have been working very hard over [...]
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Getting closer: a sneak preview

By Jay Collier | Published: October 14, 2008
While the ILS staff is developing a software architecture based on our listening sessions and the September software workshop, my students and I have been developing prototypes to demonstrate principles of an effective Web experience. Here are the principles we started with: Be intuitive – simple publishing, searching, finding Be personalizable – up to date feeds on personal [...]
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Vision and blueprint for online engagement

By Jay Collier | Published: September 18, 2008
I created this September presentation for a brainstorming session, convened by Bates’ IT, about our next-generation online presence.
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