The Harrell Health Sciences Library completed a major overhaul of the library’s website. Input was gathered from faculty, staff, and students at the Penn State Hershey College of Medicine and the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, which helped to inform the layout and features of the new site.

The redesign was led by a team at Hershey – Cynthia Robinson, Lauren Kime, David Brennan, Nancy Adams, Ben Hoover, and Robyn Reed – who collaborated with both the University Libraries I-Tech department and Hershey IT & Web Services. The Harrell Health Sciences Library is now hosted in the Adobe CQ5 CMS, which allows for increased resource sharing and partnerships with University Libraries.

Over the course of a year, the redesign team: identified functional requirements, gathered user suggestions, worked with University Libraries and Concepcion Design to create a design and layout that would maintain the library’s identity as part of Penn State Hershey, arranged for new author training, and migrated website content into the CMS. With the help of Hershey IT & Web Services, the website was successfully launched on January 13th, 2014.

As we continue to partner with I-Tech, we look forward to increasing website usability and working with Google Analytics to help improve services for patrons. Finally, a big thanks to everyone in I-Tech and Web Heads for your help and guidance! — Lauren Kime, collection access and support services librarian, Penn State Hershey George T. Harrell Health Sciences Library