Summary

Developing a website that meets branding guidelines, prioritizes student-focused user needs, and caters to library professional user quirks can be tricky and, at times, downright impossible. This session explores redesigning a library homepage, including planning, building, implementing, and assessing a new library website. A robust resource list is provided to help start the redesign process, along with guidance on developing a unique website schema and layout. Conflict between university branding guidelines and EDU platforms is discussed. Attendees with zero coding experience, those with little to low budget for web redesign, and those from small libraries are all encouraged to attend.

Bio:

Virginia Cononie is the Coordinator of Reference and Research at the University of South Carolina – Upstate. Her published scholarship takes interest in scholarly communication, library funding advocacy, and marketing and outreach. At the library, she engages with students and library users at the reference desk, instructs information literacy sessions and collects materials for biology studies and African American studies.