Update, 3/26/20: Google is now automatically marking businesses as “Temporarily Closed”. They’re vague on the data source, but it does seem to be pretty accurate – they accurately flagged all of UNC Libraries’ buildings with this update. I’m a firm … Read more

I always tell people I never want to do another huge website redesign – I’d much rather iterate instead. Making small improvements one page at a time is easier to do, adds up over time, and is extremely satisfying work. … Read more

Google Scholar is an amazing search tool. Until it breaks. Google harvested an incredible amount of article metadata & abstracts to power Scholar, and it does an impressive job of linking to freely available copies of articles whenever possible. Unfortunately, … Read more

Google Scholar provides options to associate your account with a library’s access to full text articles. After you set the option, every search result will include a proxied link to the full text when available: Configuring this option has to … Read more

We’re in the middle of rebuilding our implementation of Google Analytics from the ground up. We’re working with Search Discovery as our consultants, diving heavily into Google Tag Manager, and I’m quite happy with what we’ve accomplished together so far. … Read more

Building a navigation structure for librarians is some of the most intimidating work I’ve ever done. The new UNC Libraries staff Intranet will roll out this summer. We’re calling it LOUIS, named after Louis Round Wilson – early 20th century … Read more