The Ohio State University

We’re continuing to look at organizing features of the staff intranet. The design of the intranet home page—which will replace the page called the “staff web site”—will greatly simplify navigation. The team has also been looking at additional features that provide faculty/staff with more information and more control over there use of the site:

•An “emergency” link will take users to information that would be needed in the event of a library or campus-wide emergency, as well as to prepare for a crisis.
•A “News” panel that will remind library faculty/staff of things they need to know in the next 48-72 hours.
•A “Spotlight” panel that would serve to highlight people, library events and special activities going on across campus and at the regionals.
•Sidebar navigation controlled by the users that will allow the set up of “quick links” to those portions of the intranet they use most frequently—information from HR, training, committees, etc. (think “favorites”).

Pam has mocked up several variations of the site…we’ll be posting one or two of them in the next few weeks.