library 404 pages

[Anne Slaughter]

Right, and I'm not in love with the idea of giving the users a task to make
up for our mistake, but we find across service points that our community is
tech-savvy and likes opportunities for feedback, so we figured it was worth
a try here. Fortunately we're not counting on it as our only method of
finding urls in need of redirection.


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On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Nina Mchale <milehighbrarian at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks, everyone, for these great responses!
>
> Claire, +1 Tumbeasts! Love it.
>
> Bob, totally agree that it's not up to our users to understand what's
> going on. Often, library staff don't even understand what happens well
> enough to report it other than, "There's a broken link..." And--your point,
> I think--we shouldn't be relying on user input for what's a simple
> maintenance task. I was just wondering if the Oak Park folks found that the
> method (feedback form) they post for reporting on their 404 was successful.
>
> Nina
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Cary Gordon <listuser at chillco.com> wrote:
>
>> Techie humor is a direct descendent / ancestor of Vogon poetry.
>>
>> Cary
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Nina Mchale <milehighbrarian at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> 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..."
>>>
>>> Nina
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 1:31 PM, wylie ackerman <wyliea at dpls.lib.or.us>wrote:
>>>
>>>>  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]
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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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>>>> Nina****
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Roy Tennant <roytennant at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:****
>>>>
>>>> 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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>>>> Roy****
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>>>> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Nina Mchale <milehighbrarian at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:****
>>>>
>>>>  Hey, all,****
>>>>
>>>> ** **
>>>>
>>>> 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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>>>> TIA,****
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> Nina
>>>>
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