[Web4lib] Files on PUBLIB -- mea culpa

[K.G. Schneider]

This is COMPLETELY my fault (Karen / PUBLIB here). I was approving stuff
stuck in our queue and was irked with myself when I saw I had approved a
Word attachment, which is like coughing into a salad and bringing it to
a potluck. (In my defense, I knew the post was "too large" but couldn't
tell why until I had posted it... but it was suspiciously huge, which is
usually enough to warrant the kibosh from us.)

This list would have worked far better as a post or as a link to a Wiki
or blog post or website page... more useful and accessible (and far less
virus-prone). 

Finally (posting as Karen/Karen), I appreciate the effort into this list
but I did notice that very little of the conclusions were user-centric
or evidence-driven. I didn't see "stats went up" or "users liked it" or
"it improved findability by x percent." I do "get" the difference
between ugly and pretty, which is hard to quantify, but I still felt
skeptical about the list as a whole.

Karen G. Schneider


On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:43:29 -1000, "Caitlin Nelson"
<cnelson at hawaii.edu> said:
> Hi - I think having a list of library websites is a great resource, but I
> have a couple of suggestions for improvement:
> 
> - You should alert users that the link will bring up a word document
> rather
> than a new page.  For example, use (DOC) after the title.
> 
> - It would be great to see the library websites in a table or list form,
> rather than a cut-and-paste from the email listservs.  Also, some of the
> libraries mentioned don't show a link to the websites! (I thought that
> was
> the whole point :) )
> 
> - Hopefully you have already received permission from the writers to post
> their personal information on your document.  Many of those replies
> contained email addresses and physical addresses/contact info.  I know
> some
> of that that information gets posted to the web4lib archive, thus is
> already
> on the Internet, but I myself would still be wary of having that
> information
> up.
> 
> Good luck with this endeavor!
> 
> Caitlin Nelson
> Assistant Librarian
> TransPacific Hawaii College
> 
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 7:00 AM, <web4lib-request at webjunction.org> wrote:
> 
> > Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 03:25:14 +0000 (GMT)
> > From: libconsult at optonline.net
> > Subject: [Web4lib] Top Public Library Websites (Cross-Posted)
> > To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> > Message-ID: <e3ece6d741f9.47b7a91a at optonline.net>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> >
> > Here is a link to a list of replies that I received for Top Public Library
> > Websites. If you wish to comment, please send replies to the list.
> > Many thanks to everyone who sent their suggestions and thank you for your
> > patience!
> >
> > http://mylibraryweb.com/mylibraryweb.aspx
> >
> > ~Marie Monteagudo
> > libconsult at optonline.net
> >
> > mylibraryweb.com
> >
> >
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