Internship @ Berea College: Day 51-54 (Entry 51-54)

I took a look at Voyager 7, the new OPAC for Berea and what another library has done with customizing there Voyager 7 OPAC. The differences I liked were:

• The lists instead of drop down menus
• the help button move
• adding there own name and header

Otherwise, I have been hard at work getting ready for my meeting with Julia and Charlotte tomorrow.

I am pleased that the policy and look for the new Berea web pages will work well with what we have planned for the VOLT. (I had and idea that we should call it BOLT because we want the symbol to be a cloud with a bolt of lightening coming out. It would work because the name would be Berea Online Library Tour instead of Virtual Online Library Tour.) The departmental pages will work well and the design that we have can be changes. We have made that clear that it is not static and we will again when we meet with the web team about it.

I have picked out the questions from RPS and made a slide show for that. I will just need to know what Julia wants on there for the presentation on August 19th for the faculty. I need to give both of them the breadcrumbs at some point because I will be leaving and they will be continuing the study.

I have been taking many pictures, getting my artist in me going. It is a loved hobby and they will have many great pictures to keep and use for the library website and the tour. I am also setting up the angles and such for future pictures and ones that we all have discussed wanting, but will need to be posed by student workers. It is great to be dong something else to help out. I can also use the skill and maybe the pictures in the future. I want the tour to be a great one, not one that is just put together like some other libraries. I look forward to showing them the pictures.

Charlotte and I have also worked out the bullet list for the descriptions. We only need the information for the art and exhibits to finish. We do not have the information, so we did not know how to do that. Hopefully, Julia had something we can work off of and not from scratch.

We also have the old files for the library maps and have discussed programs, but not gone into depth with changes and what we want to do with them, if anything.

I only have a few weeks left and I feel like I still have much to do. I have done a great deal and will not be looking forward to leaving the projects behind. All I can do is hand them off and explain what I have been doing to the greatest of my ability. I still have a few articles to read and abstract. Otherwise, I am good with that and this, my journal. I still need to get my oral presentation ready. But that will come. I know I will get through my goals. I am glad that everything is running smooth despite my feeling of a time crunch. I look forward to the meeting tomorrow.