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About the Web Pages

Table of Contents

• Updates: Spring 2005 -- Fall 2004
• Summer 2004 Updates & Redesign (Phase II)
• Summer 2003 Redesign (part of UConn Libraries Redesign; Phase I)
• Links to Old Pages
• Credits
  

Please contact Tracey Rudnick if you have questions or comments about the Web pages. We will try to fix errors immediately, and will seriously consider your suggestions for improvement. The "log" below describes documents changes to our recently redesigned Web site. Working on a search box and "What's New" link. May add RSS feed for new materials lists.

Summer 2005 Update

Spring 2005 Update

• Finished a working draft of Research a Play (in Drama Research).
• Added keyboard shortcuts to improve accessibility (alt-m goes to "main content", alt-t goes to "top").
• Lots of revisions, repairs, updates, and new pages throughout.

  Wish List

  • What's New (news, new materials, substantial Web site updates)
  • Profiles of donors and supporters
  • More finding aids
  • Many more things . . . too extensive to list here.

Fall 2004 Update

• "Printer-Friendly" and "Text-Only" Pages. In November/December 2004 the Music Library staff added links to a "Printer-Friendly Version." These links appear in the upper right corner of every Music/Drama page. The pages are automatically created using a PHP script (here's the original source). Links in the printer-friendly pages work, though internal links take you back into the full-featured page. A handful of pages still need a bit of work, e.g., the New Facilities pages. Users who wish to stay in a text environment can try using the Libraries' prototype "text-only" link on the bottom left corner of the pages (courtesy of S. Quintero and L. von Munkwitz-Smith). This link uses Betsie (a text-rendering script) and allows users to change the text color, size, and font.

• We are transferring the older Dramatic Arts Research guide (e.g., Image Research and Plays) into the new Web design and developing a good deal of new content as we go. Comments and suggestions are welcome, particularly from dramatic arts users.

• We are adding many other pages and constantly updating links.

Summer 2004 Updates & Redesign

Welcome to phase II of our Web page redesign. Our Web pages have several new features:

• New menus with many new Web pages and shortcuts.
  • See especially the menus called Top Picks and Take Care of Library Business.
  • Here is a link to the old Web page (original menus). We are no longer updating it.

• New sidebar on most pages (same menus as the home page).
  • Example: http://www.lib.uconn.edu/music/scores.html.

• New site index (still being populated).
• Each menu now has a Go menu. This helps make the site ADA compliant, and resolves some technical problems. (Use the Tab button on your keyboard to move from a menu to "Go," then press Return.)
• New Reset button (for use if the menus show the last item selected, rather than menu name).
• New content. Please explore!
• Information is being split into smaller chunks, for less scrolling. (We have put forwarding addresses in most places.) Redundant information is also being consolidated.

Summer 2003 Redesign

Welcome to our newly designed Music & Dramatic Arts Library home page (http://www.lib.uconn.edu/music)! This new "front page" design (Phase I of a redesign) is tidier and has more room for useful links. Try out the new Databases Shortcuts menu. Please be patient as we experiment with or add new links. Some link or heading names may also change.

We will implement other features in the future (e.g., a site index, What's New, guides for finding materials, new navigation bars, etc.). Several of the lengthy subpages will also be separated into smaller pages with one topic each. Please send your suggestions and comments to library staff.

Note: The UConn Libraries completely reorganized its web site in August 2003. Many pages moved. Most links have since been repaired.

Here is the old "green music note" Music & Dramatic Arts Library home page (links have been disabled).

TR 8/8/03

Links to Old Pages

These links will be available for the next few weeks while staff convert content. Sidebars on these pages may be disabled after conversion to facilitate global updates.

Information (About the Library, About the New Home Page Design, Hours, Location, Directions and Parking
New Facilities Website, Library Staff)
Services (Guides, Circulation and Reserve, Reference and Instruction, Course Pages, Listening & Viewing, Photocopy & Printing ; Husky One Card, Document Delivery, Interlibrary Loan, and Intercampus Express: Getting Materials from Other Libraries, Seminar Room and Graduate Carrels, Collection Development).
Collections
Electronic Resources

Most other pages have already been converted.

Credits

Tracey Rudnick designs, writes, organizes, and manages most of these pages. Shirley Quintero and Andrew Bacon helped resolve some technical problems at critical junctures. Kabel Stanwicks provided input about design. Student assistants help assemble materials, provide design feedback, proofread, and check links. Heidi Abbey designed the now defunct but still elegant "green music notes" pages; her "New Facilities" Web page is still active, and she assisted greatly with the original Drama Subject Web page. Finally, some material in the drama and image research pages was developed or inspired by Dorothy Bognar, the former music/drama librarian.

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