Planning and Developing a Library Intranet

Instructor: Jeff Mayem

Planning and Developing a Library Intranet

Only a click away? Imagine... changing your health plan coverage in only minutes… finding out exactly how much of your budget went to periodical subscriptions in November… locating an expert in your library system to give you advice about choosing durable reading room furniture. Imagine all of this, any time of the workday from your desktop computer or from your home computer. Intranets—internal Web-based systems—are delivering these information solutions and are fast becoming an essential workplace technology. Besides leveraging an organization's information and knowledge with one secure database, intranets are saving workers' time, freeing them up to concentrate on other important tasks

Workshop Description: This all-day workshop provides participants with a guide for planning, developing, and managing a library intranet project. The non-technical workshop identifies the uniqueness of intranets, their value to organizations, different intranet models, ideas for developing content, and guidelines for policies, design, and implementation. This workshop will be a mix of project management basics, case studies, step-by-step planning and usable design guidelines, and hands-on exercises for participants seeking to develop or modify intranet sites in their own library settings.

Highlights:

• Understanding the uniqueness of intranets
  • Intranets vs. external Web sites
  • Value to organizations
  • Assembling the intranet team
• Intranet styles: Four models for intranet development
• Developing Content: Twenty library-specific applications for intranets
• Control vs. chaos: Publishing and design standards
  • Style guides for content and design
  • Usability practices
  • Five guidelines for designing usable intranets
• Policy issues: Usage, security, and copyright
• Pulling it all together: A six-step process for implementation

Who Should Attend: Anyone who is either thinking of developing an intranet for their library setting or has already implemented one. This course emphasizes management and planning issues over technical ones.

Prerequisites: Even though this a course has a non-technical focus, participants attending should have:

• basic knowledge about Web terminology and basic Web architecture.
• familiarity with Web techniques and design, including html, cgi programming, and firewalls.

Please Note: There is a $50.00 fee for this workshop. InFoPeople does not provide parking passes, lunch or refreshments.

Check-in: 8:30 to 9 AM Instruction: 9 AM to 4:30 PM