The Ralph Ellison Webliography  was designed by Claude Henry Potts as a course project for Dr. Anne Gilliland-Swetland's LIS 208 class, Development of Cultural Information Resources Using Digital Multimedia, in UCLA's Department of Library and Information Science during the Spring of 1997. The project would not have been possible without the availability of a broad range of computer hardware and software owned by the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies (GSE&IS). Special thanks go to all of my technological savvy friends and colleagues in both the School's Educational Technology Unit as well as in the Department's Multimedia and Information Technology Lab. Their comments, suggestions, and advice have greatly contributed to the success of this project. This web site is now happily housed on a server maintained by Center X in GSE&IS at UCLA.

      Navigation on the webliography is fairly straight forward. The basic structure is composed of three frames. The non-scrolling title frame at the top is not meant to be invoked. The scrolling frame on the left side of the browser window is the menu frame from which elements of the webliography can be activated and seen in the target frame - the large frame on the right side of the browser window. This body frame can be opened up in a new frame to ease readability of the bibliographic and textual information within by clicking on the "new browser" link in the lower right hand corner of each webpage. This link opens up a "new" browser which displays an enlarged version of the body frame. By clicking on the box in the upper left hand corner of the "new" browser, the newly opened frame can be closed, returning the user back to the main body of the website.

      Clicking on the "previous" or "next" links at the bottom of each page and adjacent to the "new browser" link guides the user from one page of the webliography to the other sequentially, without having to use the menu frame. This option supplements standard browser buttons "back"and "forward" navigational buttons which only permit moving back and forth through paths already travelled within the web site. The "home"link returns the user to the initial point of entry to the Ralph Ellison Webliography.

| Previous | Home | Next | Enlarge Frame |