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August 31, 2001Volume 30, Number 1Two-Week Issue



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New Yale Library website unveiled

Students and faculty who haven't used the Yale Library's website over the summer recess will see several changes to its main page at www.library.yale.edu designed to improve its functionality.

The new site brings more information to the forefront and combines the functions of the old "Front Door," which was designed for visitors and novice users, and the "Research Workstation," where the electronic databases and research offerings were collected.

The redesigned site organizes the library's resources and services into four distinct sections: "Research Tools," "About the Library," "Libraries and Collections" and "Library Services." In addition, a search in Orbis, the online catalog, is possible from the main page. A "bookmark" on the right highlights the "Quick Links -- fast access to Borrower Account information and frequently used services, such as renewing books and requesting materials from other libraries. There is also a section for library-related news.

Designed by the New Haven firm AHDesign, the new website incorporates thematic colors with images from the leaded glass windows in Sterling Memorial Library.

The new site was developed over the course of nine months by a library task force, using surveys, usability tests and open forums to determine the needs of students, staff, faculty and visitors.

According to Holly Grossetta Nardini, chair of the redesign task force, the site's new organization "responds to concerns we heard from students and faculty about the duplicative nature of previous library websites. By combining our "Front Door" with the old "Research Workstation," we've been able to move information up a level and provide links to key library research tools, services and general information from one Web starting point."

The Yale Library staff welcomes feedback on the new site; there is an easy-to-use web-based comment form available as a link on the footer of each page.


T H I SW E E K ' SS T O R I E S

Yale to greet new crop of students

Over half of new foreign students got financial aid

Programs pay tribute to Yale abolitionist

Stern, González Echevarría named DeVane Professors

Discovery may yield insights into treating high blood pressure

Hockfield is appointed Gilbert Professor

Brewer returns to Yale as Weyerhaeuser Professor

African American studies celebrates 30th year

Symposium will explore 'Challenges to Internationalizing Yale'


IN FOCUS: Yale Architecture

While You Were Away: The Summer's Top Stories Revisited

Art Gallery exhibit combines the visual and literary

Ethnic cleansing in Europe and America is focus of Lamar Center's weekend symposium

'Symmetry and Asymmetry' is topic of Tetelman Lecture

Fair to highlight resources for those with disabilities

School of Music celebrates new year with concert, convocation

New Yale Library website unveiled

C. Norman Gillis, noted vascular disease specialist, dies

The Great Outdoors

Pictures and poems sought for contests at Morse College



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