There's been some significant re-arranging of some GPL pages as a consequence of the user testing so far. The good news is that the number of active pages is growing progressively smaller. However, if you'd gotten in the habit of using certain ones, the changes may take you aback briefly. The biggest shift is in the US information.
These individual pages:
http://govpubs.lib.umn.edu/stat/unitedstates.phtml
http://govpubs.lib.umn.edu/statfa_us.phtml
http://govpubs.lib.umn.edu/guides/gplforvisitors.phtml?us=1
http://govpubs.lib.umn.edu/guides/us.php with
http://courses.lib.umn.edu/page.phtml?page_id=1727 - deleted
http://courses.lib.umn.edu/page.phtml?page_id=1597 - deleted
have all been replaced by the United States Collection Guide.
The new page has these categories:
* Basic U.S. Publications
* Historical U.S. Government Publications
* Official U.S. Government Web Sites
* Tools for Finding Government Publications
* Research Guides
* Statistics About the United States
Basic US Pubs and Historical Pubs are exactly what they sound like; the official web sites no longer lists individual agency pages (just a link to the LSU Agency Search), but it does have an updated list of subject.gov pages. "Tools for finding..." is intentionally vague: it links to the US Indexes and assorted other finding aids like the UMich Documents Center, Thomas, LexisNexis Statistical and so on. Research Guides links to another page; in time the guides will be listed directly on this page. The statistics section now replaces the old United States Subject page on the Statistics homepage. I think I caught all of the links to the old pages, but if I missed one let me know.
With most things on a single page now, one can either scroll down the page or do a CTRL+F search for items on it and not have to try to remember where else to look. Send comments as the mood strikes.
Also, just a reminder: all site changes are recorded at Web Site Changes. If you run into problems, have a look at this page.
Finally, I'll be deleting about 20 pages on 6/6/05 (yay!), so after that, the page referenced above will be the only record of what went where. -- Amy
Posted by bgi at May 24, 2005 04:46 PM | Email This Entry