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