the december calendar has long been torn off and put in the trash. january means gearing up on writing my personal resolutions as well as starting on a new frontier with the adult website....yes that area that was given its moment in the spotlight last year until our focus groups told us otherwise.
so without further ado, here's the basic plans for the adult side.
1. per the strategic plan the DS team will be investigating further the catalog front ends such as Encore and Aquabrowser and even Sirsi Dynix to see how they stack up against our requirements
2. besides the big picture catalog we will be looking at federated search. there's a questionnaire on our website right now (yes, plse take the survey!) asking about magazine/newspaper usage to help determine need. this survey will run thru end of feb with plans thereafter to evaluate and decide if the purchase of such is warranted
3. closer to sooner rather than later we will be making changes to the Locations & Hours page. This warrants attention as it is one of the most asked for & used pages on our site! Look for the button to move up the page (e.g. more important). The 2nd click will show a list of our locations more like a search result from a hotel listing (photo, basic information, amenities). The 3rd click takes you into that library's page and provides an opportunity for library-specific information to be posted and updated regularly. This design allows more current updating of content where its needed - at the branch level without impacting plans for the catalog and how it needs to present on the page.
4. one of the recent posts also named some other "tweaky" changes that will occur with the Yahoo newsfeed going away, moving Latest @ Your Library over to this box, etc. If you want the complete details, go to the posting dated January 9th.
last night alyson presented the teen website to the Board who really liked the design ~ their question was "when are you gonna do this to the adult side?" We've heard and we're working! Comments and input regarding website changes mentioned here are now being solicited.
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I think it is a great idea to further develop branch specific pages. I would suggest a name change from "locations and hours" to something that a little broader since there will be more than just locations and hour information in the link. Something like "Branch Pages" (but snappier) might get more people to click on the page other than those just looking for only address and phone information.
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