The award arrived broken in Atlanta, so I received a dummy on stage. As soon as the new engraved perfect one arrives, we'll pass it through the libraries to show off. It's really pretty!
And the film? We're keeping that until we have all our celebration planned. You'll be the first to see it, I promise! There are 2 short films, one that highlights all 3 award winners, and one specific to KPL.
Here's the "all three" version
Besides accepting out Power Library Award in Atlanta last weekend, I talked to a number of vendors and librarians who shared some pretty interesting ideas. Here are a few:
- SirsiDynix is developing a new Customer Engagement Platform that would pull together all the pieces of our marketing efforts with images, text and email notifications to everyone with a library account, and replace the website program calendar with a different model. The product combines with wifi beacons, so even if someone doesn't have a library account, they could get a pop up message on their phone alerting them to an upcoming program.
- I'm also interesting in using SirsiDynix products already available to create our website, integrating everything. The Alexandria, Virginia library is one example of a library already doing this. Although I don't care for the colors, the structure works for me. Why deal with separate catalog and website when you can integrate everything? Here are some more examples:
Minnesota
Delaware
Houston
- Sirsi is launching a Blue Cloud Mobile app along with a library app for kids- we'll watch their development. The new app allows more integration with library information.
- Overdrive is launching a feature where people can apply for and get an instant digital library card via the Overdrive Libby App.
- One library gives out noise-cancelling headphones to people who long for a quiet library. Seems like a reasonable solution to me.
Have a wonderful Friday and weekend, everyone!
Barb
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ReplyDeleteThe integration of Sirsi & our website seems like it would be a good idea. Hopefully the website severs are separate from the catalog servers.
ReplyDeleteThe interface design of the Minnesota site/Washington County Library (WCL) looked clean and intuitive, but overall I think the site we have now is slightly better aesthetically. Something that I enjoyed and felt could be an improvement to our site is WCL's consolidation of their digital content into an easy to find location on the top left of their homepage titled, "Digital Branch". This is a distinct page within the WCL website that contains links to the library's mobile apps, digital guides, libby/overdrive, RB digital magazine, & all their online databases. What really made this new digital taxonomy shine was the subcategory of mobile apps found in the "Digital Branch" page. The link to the app list can be found again on the top left of the Digital content page and leads to another webpage with a convenient list of all library mobile apps w/ links that allow direct downloading and access to full descriptions of those programs.
The "Digital Branch" page can be found here: https://wcm.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/default/?rm=DIGITAL+BRANCH0|||1|||0|||true
The Mobile App page is here: https://www.washcolib.org/431/Mobile-Apps
Thanks for pointing these pages out. I agree that they are very useful.
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