Thursday, May 26, 2011

Web pages, Redesigning

A polite librarian should never report problems or make suggestions to his or her Webmaster about the library’s Web site. Instead, design and launch a rival library Web site that is infinitely better and see if you can steal away all the traffic from the original.

Ask the readers: Do you have a library Web site that needs to be challenged and put out of its misery? Share links in the comments below.

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

Do I ever. This thing looks like it hasn't been updated since the mid-90's. And that's being generous.

http://mccpl.lib.al.us/

Anonymous said...

holy shit Montgomery, that is just painful.

Galadriel said...

It's like somebody tried to throw together about 4 different systems and hoped they'd play nice:
http://www.acld.lib.fl.us/

If you search the catalog, it takes you to a different system.

If you try to review your account, you're redirected something like 4 times to yet ANOTHER system.

Placing a hold on books redirects to yet another.

This thing is held together with spit and Scotch tape, I think.

Anonymous said...

I think this is the worst I've seen. I used to work here, and I love the place dearly! But their webpage definitely needs a bit of an update:

http://www.deercreekillinois.org/Library.htm

Mimsy Buttons said...

http://www.alaannual.org/

Anonymous said...

http://www.ebrpl.com/

Anonymous said...

We've been in the process of "redesign" for about 3 years. It will never happen because the part time webmaster is holding it hostage waiting for a full time job (which will never come).

racinelibrary.info

Anonymous said...

www.stcharles.lib.la.us

Anonymous said...

The Montgomery site? It was worse...this is the improved site! Here is what it, until very recently, looked like:
http://web.archive.org/web/20100529022428/http://www.mccpl.lib.al.us/

Anonymous said...

http://www.librarieshawaii.org/

Anonymous said...

I was trying to click the link for this library (my old home town):

http://www.derbypubliclibrary.org/


But then I accidentally clicked this link and found more library website fun:

http://bflib.org/

Someone had time to write that?

Anonymous said...

Whoa whoa whoa, what the HELL was that last one? Is that a real library?

Susanne said...

www.nationallibrary.gov.in

Scrolling text FTW!

Anonymous said...

The designer of the Indian national library site clearly took some lessons from the Bud Uggly web design people.

Anonymous said...

hahahahaha

http://www.prairietrailslibrary.org/