The document discusses options for refreshing library websites, including using content management systems (CMS) like Joomla to allow multiple staff to update pages, or setting up blogs which can function as entire websites when budgets are limited. It provides examples of libraries that use Joomla and blogs successfully. Resources on user-friendly website design are also included. The session aims to help libraries design websites that reflect their roles as centers of knowledge and information specialists, but do so effectively.

1. from Joomla to Blogs:
giving your website a
refreshing new look
Dr. Curtis R. Rogers, SCLA
Director of Communications/SC State Library

2. session overview
❖ library web site
use
❖ library web sites
vs. commercial
web sites
❖ using Joomla
❖ using blogs
❖ resources

5. library website design
hire a web designer and let them do
what the do best
use a CMS so that multiple staff can
update specific pages
rely on the entire staff
disband your web site committee

6. LIBRARY WEB SITES
libraries are centers of knowledge
librarians are information specialists
library web sites should reflect
who we are
what we do
BUT WE MUST DO IT WELL!

9. NCSU AND ENDECA
HTTP://WWW.LIB.NCSU.EDU/ENDECA/
TECHNOLOGY.HTML

10. http://flickr.com/photos/morville/sets/
72157603794374821/detail/

11. joomla in libraries
http://www.joomlainlibrary.com/

12. http://www.statelibrary.sc.gov/

13. using blogs
• no money? use a blog!
• www.wordpress.com
• use a blog for
• book discussion group
• programming, events
• even as your entire website
http://leecountypubliclibrary.blogspot.com/

14. resources
10 steps to a user friendly website
http://www.searchengineguide.com/kalena-jordan/10-
easy-steps-to-a-user-friendly-website.php
website design and usability
http://www.usabilityfirst.com/websites/index.txl

15. thank you!
Dr. Curtis R. Rogers
SCLA President/SC State Library
Director of Communications
803-734-8929
crogers@statelibrary.sc.gov
Meebo: crr29061 www.curtisrogers.info