Thanks for the review

[The Big Glee Bopper]

Just a short note to thank the folks who helped with the visual review of 
the Monroe County Site.

There were actually 68 people from all over the world who sent in 
comments. 3 of the 68 had some problems with the graphical image. At 
least some of the problems related to monitors set at 16 colors. One 
person did report getting actually sea sick trying to read the screen.

I think there are some graphical readability issues which we'll have to 
deal with but I think they are related to the age of the viewer more than 
anything else. This is a real issue and every single response sent in was 
funneled into the group for consideration.

We did the public demo of all 3 sites last night at the Monroe County 
Public Library and had 50+ folks show up some of whom were turned away 
because they couldn't fit into the room. We did our 4th usability test on 
the structure and language and it works close to 100%. Interesting words 
we discovered which are almost meaningless to anyone without an MLS: 
reference, catalog, opac. those words don't exist in our system except in 
the glossary which is hyperlinked.

We may be installing the system in another public library and were asked 
if we'd consider translating the system into another romanized language 
for another site. Hopefully by Monday we can clean up a little bit more 
and I'll post the url to the 3 approaches and move toward 
_stuffing/taring/zipping_ the structure part for other libraries who 
would like to download the entire site and fine tune it for their 
particular sites. The download version will be sans any reference to 
Monroe County Public Library.

We'll be developing the content for Monroe County in the spring and have 
approached a variety of opac vendors about providing z39.50 client 
support _thru_ this web_site_interface. This means that you will be able 
to hide innovative/geac/dra/notis/etc and present a truly unified 
presentation of _self_ to the internet world without an obviously 
non-related interface _popping_ up on your site. One vendor has agreed to 
help. More on that later.

Thanks again and more later.

--Thom