[WEB4LIB] Re: Library Web Page Use

[Daniel Messer]

    Those last few sentences sum it up pretty nicely. I have to wonder how these PR, Marketing, and other assorted
folks got their degrees. Did they ever go to the library? If they did, they must have some extremely short term
memories if for no other reason than the fact that they never saw a problem with "Catalog" referring to a paper
bound publication or "Catalog" refering to an OPAC.
    The upside is that they saw the light after a rational explanation. In other cases, the effect can be
nightmarish.

Dan

Linda Absher wrote:

> In my previous position with a small liberal-arts college, the marketing/PR
> group wanted the library to use their standard template for our web pages,
> which was designed to sell the school to alums/outside visitors.  The
> problem was, the template included a prominent button that read "Catalog",
> which linked to an online version of the catalog the college sent to
> interested applicants.  You should have seen the look on their faces when I
> pointed out the problems of having such a link on the library's web pages.
> Needless to say, I wound up using my own design to avoid confusing users.
>
> LInda

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Daniel Messer, Technology Instructor
Yakima Valley Regional Library
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dmesser at yvrls.lib.wa.us
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