Comments on: Five Types of Content on a Library Website

By: samuel

samuel — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:28:05 +0000

mmm interesting book love it to bits what do you think about advertising it on my web site under the designers section? http://www.targetwebdesign.com.au/ let me know

cheers

By: Dhanashree

Dhanashree — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:59:49 +0000

Could we arrive at some content ratio here?? And would that justify if the library is active in the right places?? Like to say collaborative or original content if more than half of the rest ..means the library has quality content and good following??

By: davidleeking

davidleeking — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:48:45 +0000

Nick – right, public domain content that we link to or otherwise feature would probably fit into number 1 (or possibly 2 as well). Thanks for the comment!

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:10:34 +0000

Is there a place for public domain content and literature too? By this I mean basically Traditional Content, or “Stuff we don’t have to buy because it’s now free” For example out of copyright works, amateur audiobook recordings, government declassified or open to all info and so on. For example, http://www.ibiblio.org – a huge “collections of collections” a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies.

By: Kim

Kim — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:59:54 +0000

Can you please show me a checklist of content features for academic library websites design? Thanks.

By: Exhibition displays

Exhibition displays — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:53:28 +0000

The main thing to remember here is to be format-agnostic. For example, libraries collect books – paper books, audio books, ebooks, digital audio books, etc. but they’re all books.

By: Ralph emerson

Ralph emerson — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:28:55 +0000

Librarians like to share. We collaborate well, freely offer our services and experience to others, and enjoy doing it.

By: Kim Radcliff Smith

Kim Radcliff Smith — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 02:37:03 +0000

I think your article was significant because it simplified the basic requirements of a library website. I think my library Cameron University, does a fine job of illustrating a library website that contains all five of the categories of content that he outlines. However, I was thinking, shouldn't there be something more? I was kind of waiting for your punchline. Especially in the light of what I have learned in my MLIS course this semester (Design and Implementation of Web-Based Information Services) so far. New ideas, concepts, and ways of handling new technology and the challenges that librarians should respond to. For instance, should there be links to other kinds of intellectual stimulation for the users, such as a toolbar that contains links to SL, Google Scholar, Wikipedia, Blogger, and similar products?

By: J. Schult

J. Schult — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:44:04 +0000

As far as spending “too much time” on “about the library” – one of the most FAQ is about the library hours, and you’ve got to have the address and phone/fax numbers, also!

Okay, so that doesn’t take time, but it deserves high-priority space on the page.

MHO,
—Dancing Librarian

By: davidleeking

davidleeking — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 13:05:11 +0000

Steve – I’d put most of the “how you can help the library” things under about the library. That would all be information ABOUT how to help, hence the about moniker for them.

ven with someing very direct, like a donate now page that asks for, say, a credit card number… the patron isn’t really creating any content. The only actaul content created was the form itself, which is all about helping the library (which I’d put in the About section).