About this Web Site
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 major redesigns over the years and will include periodic updates on the 2009 redesign.
Winter 2009 Redesign
3/30/09 update: The redesigned site is usable, but a lot of work remains. You will see many formatting issues (these are residual problems from data migration over the winter break), and a number of pages need to be simplified so the most important information is front and center. We will revise the home page to make it easier to get into some of the resources, and we still need to implement a number of features. This "second round" of improvements and editing will commence in late April.
1/9/9 update: The UConn Libraries launched its redesigned web site January 5, 2009. That site is substantially complete. The Music & Dramatic Arts Library's content migrated at the same time, but at that time only a rudimentary framework had been assembled. Temporary navigation schemes and most content are in place, so the site can be used. Over the next few weeks, the site will be assembled piece by piece. Expect color, navigation, links, and formatting to change. Please notify Tracey Rudnick if there is something you need right away for your teaching, study, or research, or if something critical is not working. For now you may wish to withhold general feedback, since we are still working toward the planned design.
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://spirit.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).
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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 for the 2003 redesign. Kabel Stanwicks provided input into the 2003 redesign. 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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