***Please excuse cross-postings.***
Today the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS)
is launching the new *ALCTS News *website <http://alcts.ala.org/news/> on
WordPress, moving from the previous content management system Drupal. With
this migration, *ALCTS News *hopes to make content easier to find and to
allow readers to engage with the information they want and need.
“We’ve redesigned *ALCTS News* to create a more immersive reading
experience on screens of all sizes,” says Chelcie Juliet Rowell, ALCTS News
editor. “The new design makes reading more immersive, exploring more
intuitive, and sharing easier. Article pages aren’t cluttered with a
sidebar, menus stacked upon menus, and buttons galore. Instead, the primary
focus is the content itself.”
In addition, *ALCTS News *article pages are more streamlined and a
mobile-responsive interface has been adopted. From an individual article,
readers can find other related articles of interest on the same topic.
Readers can also peruse items from the same section by clicking on the
category for Features, Announcements, Columns or Conference News. By
selecting the tag below an article, readers can find additional articles
about the same ALCTS member group or community.
One of the most significant new features of the site is how easy it is to
start a conversation. Users can leave a comment without creating a username
and password for the *ALCTS News *site, and articles can be shared across
various social media channels like Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn using
share buttons.
In the coming weeks, the ALCTS office staff will work to move the rest of
the *ALCTS News* Drupal pages over to the new site. We also plan to archive
issues of *ALCTS Newsletter Online <http://www.ala.org/alcts/ano/>* to the ALA
Institutional Repository (ALAIR) <https://alair.ala.org/>.
For more information on the *ALCTS News* redesign, including how to provide
feedback on the new site, visit http://alcts.ala.org/new
s/2018/alcts-news-unveils-new-look.
Brooke Morris
Program Officer, Communications
Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS)
American Library Association (ALA)
Received on Wed Apr 04 2018 - 18:34:06 EDT