Princeton University Library Human Resources

The Library's Web site serves as the Library's presence on the Internet for all Princeton and non-Princeton users. The site is designed to support the learning, teaching, and research at Princeton by our faculty, students, and staff in all departments. The Library's Web pages provide authoritative and substantive content through a user-friendly interface.
The site is a continually evolving gateway to information and services that must be user-centered and user-driven. A second set of pages for the library staff provides essential information and functionality to our colleagues. Both the public and staff sites aim to help users find the information they need effectively and efficiently.

Working closely with the Library Web Development Manager, the Library Web Team is charged with providing the guidance and oversight as well as recommendations on the organization, content, and design of the Library's Web pages. The Committee also helps develop various standards for all the production pages maintained by the library staff. Members of the team will be active participants in web maintenance and will serve as web resource staff for others in the library. Other individuals identified and trained by the Web Development Manager will have direct responsibility for content management and editing of selected pages or groups of pages.

In conjunction with the Library Web Development Manager, the Library Web Team does the following:

Sets goals and establishes priorities for library web development projects.
Actively solicits user-feedback through a variety of means (e.g., focus groups, usability testing, and comments) and recommends changes and applications that support a user-driven, user-friendly Web site.
Helps develop policies, practices, standards, and guidelines for use in creating and maintaining web pages.
Regularly reviews the design, efficiency, and effectiveness of the library web site and establishes working groups, as needed, to address particular areas of web work.
Takes direct responsibility for certain key web pages including the library's homepage.
Provides a forum for the web content providers in the library.
Keeps all library staff informed of new directions, services, and implementations.
Recommends web service improvements, maintenance efficiencies, and enhanced functionality through new tools such as database-to-web design, persistent URLs, and other techniques.
Recommends monitoring and assessment tools to evaluate web services and products; recommends or provides functionality that lets staff retrieve management data for their own pages, e.g., link checkers or use data.
Coordinates continuing education for staff on web issues and web competencies and helps establish minimum competency levels for staff who maintain pages.

Membership

Members are drawn from across the libraries. The group will be relatively small. Each member will have or acquire the skills needed to create and maintain web pages, so that they may lead or advise working groups, make informed proposals and comments, and modify web pages if needed.

Reports to: Associate University Librarian, Public Services/Collection Development

Advises: University Librarian and Deputy University Librarian

Term: 2 years

Membership as of 11/1/2006:

Steven Adams
Julie Arnheim
Martin Heijdra
John Hernandez
Nancy Pressman-Levy
Dan Santamaria
Antonio Barrerra, ex-officio
Marvin Bielawski, ex-officio

For contact information consult the Library Staff Directory.