The Tompkins County Public Library has announced plans to launch its new website later this month.
The year-long project to enhance http://tcpl.org included a complete redesign and significant content upgrades with the goal of creating a more user-friendly and visually appealing site.
"The goal of the project was to make the site more intuitive and comprehensive," said Joyce Wheatley, an adult services librarian and webmaster for TCPL. Wheatley and fellow Librarian Cassandra Shortle worked with Gorges Websites of Ithaca to ensure the success of the project.
Among the upgrades patrons can expect on the new site are: multiple points of access to information, easy access to local history collections, drop-down windows, breadcrumbs to help users locate where they are in the website and a slideshow featuring information about Library programs, exhibits, events and special features, such as new booklists and language-learning tools. Library patrons can also access account information, place holds on materials, access Library databases and electronic resources and download music and videos from the site.
"Our current site is really nice, so we had a good starting point," Wheatley said. “Our goal was to enhance what we already had."
Additional enhancements include makeovers to the kids and teen pages. The kids page is audience-focused and even includes a parrot that squawks when kids click on it.
Library Director Susan Currie praised the efforts of Wheatley and Shortle and said the website upgrade was an essential element in the Library's goal of staying abreast of technological trends.
"We really strive to offer our patrons the most up-to-date and easy to use resources," Currie said. "The new website is paramount to those efforts and I believe our patrons will be as happy with it as we are."
The official date of the site launch has not been announced, but patrons are encouraged to check http://tcpl.org regularly for information on the rollout.
For more information, contact Carrie Wheeler-Carmenatty at (607) 272-4557.
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What you really need to do with the teen section is update it regularly. It has been nearly a MONTH since new reviews were posted on the blog (I submit several a week), programs are slow to be updated, none of the pages except events and TAG have been updated in an extremely long time, possibly years.
ReplyDeleteWhile I'm posting this I would request librarians posting reviews for the teens to be more careful. The names of books, authors and reviewer's names are often incorrect. I keep copies of many of my reviews other places as well and there are spelling and grammar mistakes that I did not make in the review but appear in the post. A good number of reviews that I submit never turn up on the blog. All of these make me quite frustrated.
We are so sorry that there have been deficiencies in the Teen Area, and that they have been a source of frustration for you. Unfortunately, we have had a significant staff shortage lately, but we want you to know that we will be working to improve this area and address all of your concerns. Thank you for writing.
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