Computers in Libraries 2007: Day 3 - Case Study of Website Redesign
Cuyahoga County Public Library
Where the library was…
they wanted to be a portal - have a customizabe customer experience
wanted to reach new audiences
weren’t quite sure what their customers wanted
created an rfp
Implementation of the website - by the website company…
discovery:
focus groups for the community - variety of types (ie., kids, teens, seniors, etc)
competitive research - looked at [...]
Computers in Libraries 2007: Day 2: LibraryThing
Tim Spalding, LibraryThing
Showing LibraryThing - features, social aspects, etc
Showed a graphical timeline on what you’ve read (not yet released)
Regular people care about book data more than you would think
Claims his product is the only one that works with z39.50 and MARC
Showed a great example of tagging vs LoC subject headings. Used the book Neuromancer as [...]
Computers in Libraries 2007: Day 2 - Comments in the Catalog: Community Interaction
Glenn Peterson, Hennepin County Library
Case Study
Comments are:
mini reviews
any title in the catalog
a “blog for every book” - cool way to think about it!
Gave brief history about their comments project:
started taking book reviews by kids and teens
then they thought - hey, adults might like to do this (not too successful)
mentioned that they custom-created this - Sirsi [...]
Computers in Libraries 2007: Day 2 - Rhumba with Joomla: Using a CMS to Build Community
Tao Gao and Catherine Buck Morgan
Joomla in Libraries - they created this
Why Joomla?
free open source
easy to use, install and it’s reliable
looked at Drupal - it’s much harder to grasp
separation of content and form
portable and extendable
strong support community
Why a redesign?
static html
table-based layout
etc… they needed to switch from an old web to a new web model
lessons learned [...]
Computers in Libraries 2007: Day 2 - Using Social Media for Community Engagement
Andy Carvin, National Public Radio
Dang, it just dawned on me who this guy is - he’s a videoblogger!
andycarvin.com/complibraries.ppt
Traditional Media production:
until recently, to produce content for a large audience you needed to be a … publisher, broadcaster, billboard owner, etc…
Enter stage left: web 1.0 - most people read the net instead of producing for it, because [...]
Computers in Libraries 2007: Day 1 - Gadgets, Gadgets, Gadgets
Barbara Fullerton, Sabrina Pacifici, Aaron Schmidt
What’s coming - better blackberrys and treos, google cell phone, smartphones with two keyboards, more gaming, etc…
Treos: Many of them!
Palm, Windows Mobile
Depends on phone service
Shredder Scissors… five pairs of scissors in one!
TI’s Projector Phone: DVD quality can be broadcast on the wall from a phone
iPod (fifth generation!)
iCharge for iPod: easy [...]
Computers in Libraries 2007: Day 1 - Information Design for the New Web
Ellyssa Kroski, Reference Librarian, Columbia University
She blogs at infotangle
Looked at msn’s website circa 2000 - your eye doesn’t really center on anything
About.com - same type of thing
Google - early example of simple design - now the gold standard of web search
kodak from 2004 - it’s a photo sharing site, but it’s not apparent to the [...]
Computers in Libraries 2007: Day 1 - Privacy, Security, Social Networking & Libraries: Me, MySpace, and Eye
Alane Wilson, OCLC
The network is community.
Harris Interactive conducted the research for them on this project…
Played a video made from ALA Midwinter’s OCLC preconference meeting
Data snippets:
How many years have you been using the internet? Librarians far exceed everyone else’s use. We started with things like gopher, Mosaic, etc - most users haven’t
The culture of paper…
Librarians have [...]
Computers in Libraries 2007: Day 1 - Webmaster Cool Tools
Darlene Fichter, Frank Cervone, Jeff Wisniewski
Another extremely packed room - I’m sitting on the floor with about 20 other people!
Jeff Wisniewski:
Yahoo pipes - it’s a feed aggregator. You can apply logic to the feeds (ie., filter the feed in various ways), it’s graphical (no coding involved).
- He uses it to pull in feeds for faculty [...]
Computers in Libraries 2007: Day 1 - Building Collaboration, Communication and Community Online
Meredith Farkas
I’m in the overflow room - coolness.
defined social software (missed it)
Easy content creation and sharing
Online collaboration - she’s used Googled documents and wikis to work with colleagues - collaborate in a single shared space
conversations: distributed - used blogpulse as an example - it shows commenting
Conversations: Real TIme - IM
Capitalizing on the Wisdom of Crowds [...]
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