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FROM: "Sarah Cody" <[removed]@bedlib.org>
REC'D: 4/28/04, 10:02 AM

Hello, everyone!

This request is probably an off-list topic, so please feel free to reply to me personally instead of clogging the list. I have been asked update/improve the Adult Services reader's advisory information on our library's webpage (http://www.bedlib.org/readers.html) to make it more user friendly. Not an easy task, as you'd imagine. Our library has conducted surveys and gotten both good and vague feedback on what people would like to see. I'm curious to see if other libraries have conducted similar surveys regarding website content, and what some of those comments might have been. Maybe I can find a pattern of likes/dislikes among online patrons. Also, is there any reader's advisory page or library website that you just can't keep yourself from visiting (not counting the popular Kent District Lib.!) because it is so well-planned and helpful? Maybe you simply like the way it looks?

I'm just beginning my research, so I thought I'd throw out a couple of general questions to get started. Any help, advice, or wise words of wisdom at this point will be greatly appreciated. Until I get a grasp on this project, consider me a Jimmy Olsen to the collective Clark Kent!

Sarah Cody
Reference Assistant
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Bedford Public Library
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FROM: "Maureen OConnor" <[removed]@bramlib.on.ca>
REC'D: 4/28/04, 10:32 AM

Sarah, I hope people respond via Fiction_L rather than offline, as I for one would be very interested to hear what everyone has to say on the topic.

In my own case, apart from the Fiction_L booklists and archives, the library site I refer to the most (after our own, of course! http://www.bramlib.on.ca/books.htm :) ) is the Waterboro Public Library (http://www.waterborolibrary.org/bklista.htm) for its vast array of booklists. (Thanks so much and kudos to you Molly!)

But I could certainly use some input as we will be revising our website and the Readers' Corner is my area to maintain.

Maureen

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Maureen O'Connor
Brampton Library
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"We all love to hear a good story. We save our stories in books. We save our books in libraries. Libraries are the storyhouses full of all those stories and secrets."
-Kathy Bates

FROM: Sue Bowser <[removed]@lancaster.lib.pa.us>
REC'D: 4/28/04, 10:59 AM

I, too, would be interested in any replies to Sarah's posting. We are
just creating our first RA website, so I can use all the help I can
get. A website I find really user friendly is Downers Grove
http://www.downersgrovelibrary.org/pages/readplace.html. You can tell
at a glance where you want to go.

Sue Bowser
Lancaster County Library
Lancaster, PA

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FROM: "Nancy Almand" <[removed]@weld.lib.co.us>
REC'D: 4/28/04, 2:47 PM

oh I'm sorry, I thought I was replying to Sarah, and of course the
attachment didn't go through. If any one wants to see the list (including
Sarah, cause I have since deleted the original email) please reply to me off
list with your email and i'll send you the attachment. --nancy

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 4/29/04, 7:58 AM

What I like best to see on an RA site is lists. LOTS of lists. For
readalikes and subject-specific suggestions. Here's one that is great:
http://sachem.suffolk.lib.ny.us/advisor/advisor.htm. Plus, of course,
Molly's at Waterboro!

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FROM: Meg Sarff <[removed]@rbls.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 5/3/04, 2:18 PM

There are many of us in the same problem -- how to make our RA page(s)
friendly, usable, interesting, helpful, etc. I just changed ours
<http://www.davenportlibrary.com/books/index.htm> but I'm still not
satisfied. Any suggestions would be welcome. Meg

Sue Bowser wrote:

> I, too, would be interested in any replies to Sarah's posting. We are
> just creating our first RA website, so I can use all the help I can
> get. A website I find really user friendly is Downers Grove
> http://www.downersgrovelibrary.org/pages/readplace.html. You can tell
> at a glance where you want to go.
>
> Sue Bowser Lancaster County Library
> Lancaster, PA
>
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Davenport Public Library
321 Main Street
Davenport, Iowa 52803-1490
(563) 328-6848
Fax (563) 326-7809
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www.davenportlibrary.com

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 5/4/04, 8:12 AM

>From: Meg Sarff <[removed]@rbls.lib.il.us>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Re: Updating Reader's ADvisory Website
>Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 14:10:21 -0500
>
>There are many of us in the same problem -- how to make our RA page(s)
>friendly, usable, interesting, helpful, etc. I just changed ours
><http://www.davenportlibrary.com/books/index.htm> but I'm still not
>satisfied. Any suggestions would be welcome. Meg
>

One thing you need to do, Meg, is delete your link to BookBrowser. BB as
such doesn't exist any more; it's part of B&N, and the series lists are
G-O-N-E, gone. You can resurrect the site from the Wayback Machine, but
that's a pain in the stern. I'm working on a site that will have series
information--even more of it, actually--and when I get it done, if I ever
do, I'll announce it here, but until then any of your patrons who click on
that link aren't going to get what they want.

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FROM: Meg Sarff <[removed]@rbls.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 5/4/04, 8:34 AM

Thanks for the reminder about BookBrowser. Meg

christine jeffords wrote:

>
>
>
>> From: Meg Sarff <[removed]@rbls.lib.il.us>
>> Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>> To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>> Subject: Re: Updating Reader's ADvisory Website
>> Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 14:10:21 -0500
>>
>> There are many of us in the same problem -- how to make our RA
>> page(s) friendly, usable, interesting, helpful, etc. I just changed
>> ours <http://www.davenportlibrary.com/books/index.htm> but I'm still
>> not satisfied. Any suggestions would be welcome. Meg
>>
>
> One thing you need to do, Meg, is delete your link to BookBrowser. BB
> as such doesn't exist any more; it's part of B&N, and the series lists
> are G-O-N-E, gone. You can resurrect the site from the Wayback
> Machine, but that's a pain in the stern. I'm working on a site that
> will have series information--even more of it, actually--and when I
> get it done, if I ever do, I'll announce it here, but until then any
> of your patrons who click on that link aren't going to get what they
> want.
>
> _________________________________________________________________
> Mothers Day is May 9. Make it special with great ideas from the
> Mothers Day Guide! http://special.msn.com/network/04mothersday.armx
>
>
> ......................................................................
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> Everything Fiction_L: http://fictionl.webrary.org
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>

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Meg Sarff
Customer Services Manager
Davenport Public Library
321 Main Street
Davenport, Iowa 52803-1490
(563) 328-6848
Fax (563) 326-7809
[removed]@rbls.lib.il.us
www.davenportlibrary.com

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