Orange County Library System

Take a look at the Virtual Library on Orange County's website. While the color scheme and graphics are painfully ugly in a very Florida kind of way, the content is pretty good. While they maintain separate sections for databases and websites, they also have Virtual Galleries which combine various resources. The Info Paths are, unfortunately, static PDF documents in stunning black and white.

It's not fabulous, but not bad either.

Julie


My apologies to Floridians among us.

Recommended websites as wiki?

Right now, when a website selector wants to make a change to their section, they send me the proposed change, which I almost always approve, and then I send it on to John Harper. What if the recommended websites were a wiki and the selectors were able to make changes on their own? I know this might be moot when we redesign, but we may be able to work in some of this functionality.

Julie

Some sites to look at

1. Mary Lou passed this one along to me -- the always-wonderful Hennepin Library's BookSpace. It might be out of our reach, but this is the gold standard for bringing together information sources in an attractive and easy-to-use way.

2. Proquest offers a free Library Marketing Kit, which is really for marketing online resources. It is not the usual self-promotion by a database vendor. Take a look.

Julie