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New library homepage: What you need to know

December 19, 2014 - 1:41pm by Andy Hickner

As I previously announced, the library's homepage is undergoing a redesign. Our user experience team completed user testing on the "hi-fi" version of the design today.  

Here is a quick guide to where to find key items in the new homepage design:

Item New location
Email Staff Quick Links
Request Materials/Interlibrary Loan Dropdown menu > Services > Request Materials
Reserve Study Rooms Dropdown menu > Services 
Adopt a Rare Book Search "Adopt a Rare Book", 1st result
Privileges  Dropdown menus > About > Borrowing & Access Privileges
Policies  Search "Policies," 2nd result
Orbis Homepage > Popular Resources
PubMed@Yale  Homepage > Popular Resources
Scopus Homepage > Highlighted Resources
Web of Science Homepage > Highlighted  Resources
E-Books & E-journals Homepage > Popular Resources
Classes Homepage, under slideshow
Tech Support (links to Printing, Remote Access, Desktop Computing, etc) Dropdown menu > Services > Computing & Technology Support
Remote Access Homepage, upper right (click on "You are on the Yale network" or "you are NOT on the Yale network")
Portals Dropdown menu
Department Liaisons Dropdown menu > Services 
Request forms Search "Request forms," 1st result

The new homepage is scheduled to go live on the evening of Saturday, January 3, a time of the week when website use is particularly low.  This will permit us to have the new homepage in place at the start of the winter semester.  

As always, please contact me with questions and concerns.  We are doing our best to make sure you don't get lost in the new interface, but if you do, remember you can ask a librarian for help.