IL05: Web Trends and Innovations

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!

IL05
IL2005
Internet Librarian 2005

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