IL05: Web Trends and Innovations

Posted on October 24, 2005
Filed Under Internet Librarian |

I was able to speak as part of this session - it went well! Here’s what the others said:

Glenn Peterson, Hennepin County Library:

Their Website:

- 3.5 fte for web services - most part time - also reference librarians, etc. Huh
- 6 million visitors
- 70% of reserves are placed online

leveraging staff:
- web application software helps - so staff can drop info into databases
- Dreamweaver, homesite, etc - much easier to make webpages because of autocomplete
- using reference staff to provide content

Subject Guides are a great way to group different types of library and community information

Their subject guides are two pages of code

Sarah Houghton, Marin County Free Library

She gets 5 hours a week to spend on her website!

Small libraries can:

John Blyberg, Ann Arbor District Library
used Drupal (open source CMS)
Used Debian Sarge for LInux
Using LAMP
Apache - defacto standard for open source web servers
PHP is a “fun” language!



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