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:
- blog
- create linked lists - you make these for your library already (bookmarks, paper-based lists) - why not make an online version, too?
- Quick Searches - make a link to searches - new books, DVDs, etc.
- Give patrons a way to talk to you - like comments online
- virtual reference - jybe and sms and IM - all free!
- jybe does co browsing
- most of these allow passing URLs
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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Internet Librarian 2005
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