Peel’s Prairie Provinces: University of Alberta Library, a Division of Learning Services

This page will document the development of the Peel website and collection.

Next Steps – Winter 2009

• Add search by Peel number field – COMPLETED
• Look at combining "Newspaper" and "Books" indexes for cross-collection search – MOVED T0 2010
• Solr indexing work for beter indexing performance – COMPLETED
• Image interface and search development – IN PROCESS, BETA LAUNCH DECEMBER 2009
• Release Prairie postcard collection (approx. 14,000 images) – IN PROCESS, COMING DECEMBER 2009
• Release images collection – IN PROCESS, COMING DECEMBER 2009
• Accessioning work for the Sir Sam Steele collection – IN PROCESS
• Ongoing digitization of Peel items -

Spring and Summer 2008

• site redesign with new look & feel, increased usability – COMPLETED
• significant increase to collection size (more terabytes = more Peel!) – COMPLETED
• metadata work on 14,000+ historical prairie postcards – COMPLETED
• records migration and updating work – FRBR qualities (see example) – IN PROCESS
• print-friendly CSS – new print styles sheets, as well as fixes to allow for better newspaper article printing – COMPLETED
• "permalink" identification of item records for easy linking, citation and referral
• collapsible, redesigned sidebars on search results pages – COMPLETED
• redesigned facet structures – COMPLETED
• improved item and page level navigation – COMPLETED
• added statistics section – COMPLETED
• added news section – COMPLETED
• added feature collections section to homepage – COMPLETED
• added RSS feed for news and updates – COMPLETED