library 404 pages

[Nina Mchale]

Anne,

Do y'all find that patrons really do report errors? And do they understand
what causes broken links enough to accurately report what happened?

Thanks!

Nina

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Anne Slaughter <aslaughter at oppl.org> wrote:

> Here's ours: http://oppl.org/oh-no
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> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Nina Mchale <milehighbrarian at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> LOL, I put, "You broke it!" on our intranet site's 404 page at my last
>> job, and the techie humor was NOT appreciated. :D No one seemed to get past
>> that line to see the following one, which read, "Just kidding! This is what
>> really happened..."
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>> Nina
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>> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 1:31 PM, wylie ackerman <wyliea at dpls.lib.or.us>wrote:
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>>>  Not specific to libraries, but last year Slashdot had a story on
>>> creative 404 pages:
>>> http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/1558220/30-creative-404-error-pages.
>>> I kind of like Blizzard’s -http://us.blizzard.com/foo****
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>>> *From:* Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] *On
>>> Behalf Of *Nina Mchale
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>>> *Subject:* Re: [WEB4LIB] library 404 pages****
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>>> Here's a funny one from UVA:****
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>>> http://www.lib.virginia.edu/libraries/****
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>>> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Roy Tennant <roytennant at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:****
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>>> I'm still rather proud of this 404 page I created for the Digital
>>> Library SunSITE at UC Berkeley back in the 1990s:****
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>>> <http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/404>****
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>>> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Nina Mchale <milehighbrarian at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:****
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>>>  Hey, all,****
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>>> What's on your 404 page for your library's site?
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>>> I'm shooting for lighthearted, even funny, but most importantly
>>> helpful--i.e., including options to get help from librarians and staff.*
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