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Library interior design with massive bookshelves, concrete floor and city view. 3D Rendering

Your building is not your product

Posted on April 4, 2019April 4, 2019 by Laura

The building ISN’T the library, but it is part of the library’s identity.

Posted in websitesTagged buildings, websites
Woman with fingers in her ears

When it comes to your library’s website, are you a climate change denier?

Posted on September 25, 2018 by Laura

Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion. W. Edwards Deming One of the least comfortable parts of my…

Posted in websitesTagged data, usabililty, websites
Woman with voice sound waves

Is Alexa killing off websites? Not quite.

Posted on June 12, 2018 by Laura

I ran across this Medium post by tech futurist Michael Spencer the other day. In it, Spencer claims that websites are…

Posted in websitesTagged ai, voice assistants, websites
Browser address bar showing the beginnings of a URL.

Level up your library’s website with this one little thing

Posted on February 8, 2018October 2, 2025 by Laura

In 2016, my workplace did a study to determine the state of various issues on public library websites in Ohio….

Posted in websitesTagged favicon, websites
surprised man using smartphone dollar bills flying away from screen

Is your library’s website costing your patrons money?

Posted on December 2, 2016 by Laura

For several years, I was a lucky customer of Verizon with a grandfathered, unlimited data plan. Last year, in an…

Posted in toolsTagged speed, tools, webdesign, websites
MISSING

What’s still missing from Ohio public library websites?

Posted on June 6, 2016 by Laura

Recently, at my place of work, we decided to do a broad survey of Ohio’s public library websites for some…

Posted in websitesTagged accessibility, usability, ux, websites4 Comments on What’s still missing from Ohio public library websites?
What can you learn from looking at other websites?

3 things you can learn from other websites

Posted on December 4, 2014July 28, 2017 by Laura

Let’s start with defining “other” here:  I mean sites that aren’t library websites.  If you do nothing else, I want…

Posted in Keeping Up, usability, websitesTagged usability, websites

Stop putting out the “welcome mat”

Posted on October 27, 2010October 27, 2010 by Laura

The temptation is overwhelming. After all, libraries are friendly places, right? We wouldn’t want our patrons to think they weren’t…

Posted in usability, websitesTagged usability, websites, welcome3 Comments on Stop putting out the “welcome mat”

Polar bears, Che Guevara and porn

Posted on May 4, 2009 by Laura

(Eric Jordan did an update to his first “Webmaster” vignette, and I’m posting it here for collective enjoyment.  Thanks, Eric!)…

Posted in Keeping Up, usabilityTagged usability, websites

Who is living in your house?

Posted on May 1, 2009May 4, 2009 by Laura

I count among my good Internet friends a certain Eric Jordan, who can not only outpun anyone I know, but…

Posted in Blogs, Keeping Up, usabilityTagged guestpost, websites2 Comments on Who is living in your house?

Why web standards matter and why your library (really) has to care

Posted on April 23, 2009April 23, 2009 by Laura

It’s pretty easy to explain to people why their web sites need certain kinds of standards; take, for example, Section…

Posted in Keeping Up, usabilityTagged accessibility, code, section508, standards, usability, websites1 Comment on Why web standards matter and why your library (really) has to care
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