The Thing That Made My Eyeballs Bleed Today

Today we noticed a Very Important Change to the Pratt SILS site. This change was most likely undertaken to make the site more navigable. It sort of does, but it also perfectly encapsulates everything that is wrong with The Dean’s approach to the site.

This change? The addition of frames. It has the benefit of simultaneously making the site a bit more usable while thrusting it firmly into the year 1995.

Let’s be clear here. This is a good change, as far as it goes. But it’s not enough. The site needs a complete overhaul, not a band-aid approach. And it doesn’t look like The Dean will ever let this happen. Worst of all, the frames aren’t even present on every page. In some ways, it makes the navigability of the site worse, not better.

This is your site. This is how our school is being represented to the world. Are you embarrassed yet?

What’s the point?

There is a point. If you’re embarrassed to be associated with Pratt School of Information and Library Science (SILS) because of the School’s site, this is the place for you to vent and embarrass Pratt SILS right back. Suggestions and appeals from both faculty and students have been ignored. It’s time for the Dean to check her ego at the door, hand over the site, and allocate the (limited) resources needed to create a site that represents a school of information and library science in New York City.