New Western Libraries website to launch next week

Western Libraries' new website is set to go live on March 24. The Western Repositioning Initiative established a set of style and branding guidelines in order to provide a more consistent experience for users exploring the university’s webpages, and the changes will better serve the entire WWU community by aligning Western Libraries with Western’s institutional graphic identity.

Additionally, the Western Libraries website will migrate from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7. Drupal 7 is the current, stable version of the popular Drupal content management system. This move creates opportunities to work with other campus Web developers to harness the power of Drupal to deliver content in new and exciting ways. Likewise, the new Libraries website will deliver content to users regardless of what type of device is used to access the site, whether content is displayed on a large monitor or a smaller mobile device.

Users will quickly realize that although things may look different, the underlying functionality remains the same. The old services still will be available, but they will be easier to find. The terminology will not change. The menus and overall navigation of the site will continue to focus on Research, Collections, Services and information About the Library.

The Western Libraries thanks those who participated in its feedback solicitation process and for the helpful comments so many provided. The summary report of the usability survey conducted in early February contains more information about the results of this process.

For more information about Western Libraries new website, contact Jon Dillon at jon.dillon@wwu.edu.