At Chili we’re playing around with Meebo reference, and Jeff found a gem of a library! Its called the Franklin Park Public Library. Their website is completely interactive, yet at the same time simple and easy to navigate.
Some of the things that I really liked about the site:
- I really like how simple it looks. The sidebars are a little busy, but not too bad.
- You can rate everything that is put up on the website, from new book reviews, to programs, to even the hours posted.
- They have Meebo online reference (which is anonymous), but if you have AOL, Google, MSN or Yahoo, they have accounts on all of those (all connected through Meebo so that the reference staff don’t have to log onto each) so that you can friend them and see when they’re online conveniently from your own IM program.
- It also looks like their website is actually a blog, but not in a way that might scare some patrons, so that staff can post reviews and patrons can comment on them.
I was also really impressed with Johnson County Public Library’s website. Very simple and clean.
adrienne said,
April 16, 2009 at 3:09 am
Cool! I love the rating thing, although I’m not sure how much I’d love it if I was posting stuff and people gave it low ratings.