Monday, June 6, 2005

New Web Site: On June 6, the National Indian Law Library launched a totally re-designed web site as part of the Native American Rights Fund web site re-design project. Goals of the entire re-design project included improving organization, accessibility, navigation and designing the site so that NARF/NILL can maintain the site in-house. Specific goals relating to the NILL web pages relate to the Indian law researcher and included better organization of web pages with cross links to NARF's work, the library catalog and related resources. (See our new "Resources by Topic" link.) Visitors to our site can now expect to enjoy a new story about our work or activities every month, pages that load faster and print properly, better organization of web pages for easy access to information, a functional web site search engine and site map to help locate information, and web pages that display well to almost any user.

The web site re-design project was a team project that involved Studiovertex.com and many members of NARF. Studiovertex developed the graphical design and layout and NARF staff modified,re-organized, and transferred content from the old site. Thanks to everyone for their contribution and patience and especially to Chris Pereira, Monica Martens, Lorna Babby, and Mereille Martinez and the National Indian Law Library support staff for their efforts -- Donna Gilliland, Jordan Howard, Jennifer Young, Harry Need, and Jill Herbert. -- David Selden, Web Site Committee.