Curating Community Digital Collections: Collaborating to Build Digital CapacityRecollection Wisconsin
The Curating Community Digital Collections (CCDC) initiative, sponsored by Recollection Wisconsin and supported by an IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grant, offers graduate students in the iSchool at UW-Madison and the School of Information Studies (SOIS) at UW-Milwaukee hands-on experience in digital stewardship and digital preservation through summer fieldwork placements at small libraries, archives and museums across Wisconsin.
In this panel, participating students and site supervisors shared their experiences and lessons learned from the Summer 2018 CCDC cohort. Presented at the Wisconsin Library Association annual meeting in La Crosse, October 2018.
Presented by Vicki Tobias, WiLS, and Stacey Erdman, Beloit College, for Creating Community through Digital Futures, held in Chicago on November 1, 2018
Keynote presentation by Emily Pfotenhauer, WiLS, for a digital preservation symposium coordinated by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), November 2018. https://dat.nedcc.org/
Curating Community Digital Collections: Collaborating to Build Digital CapacityRecollection Wisconsin
The Curating Community Digital Collections (CCDC) initiative, sponsored by Recollection Wisconsin and supported by an IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grant, offers graduate students in the iSchool at UW-Madison and the School of Information Studies (SOIS) at UW-Milwaukee hands-on experience in digital stewardship and digital preservation through summer fieldwork placements at small libraries, archives and museums across Wisconsin.
In this panel, participating students and site supervisors shared their experiences and lessons learned from the Summer 2018 CCDC cohort. Presented at the Wisconsin Library Association annual meeting in La Crosse, October 2018.
Presented by Vicki Tobias, WiLS, and Stacey Erdman, Beloit College, for Creating Community through Digital Futures, held in Chicago on November 1, 2018
Keynote presentation by Emily Pfotenhauer, WiLS, for a digital preservation symposium coordinated by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), November 2018. https://dat.nedcc.org/
WordPress Multisite | WordPress Meetup Saint Petersburg, Russia 13 January 2017Doug Lawrence
Choosing WordPress Multisite set us on a path, where we overcame negative hosting companies and developers whose reaction to multisite was laced with suspicion. But with the help of friends and suppliers from within the WordPress community globally we overcame the challenges and now look back and know we made the right choice
A practical overview of potential uses for Web2.0 in library services.
Delivered by Phil Bradley, Freelance Librarian and Internet Consultant.
Part of Enterprise, engagement and new communication: Web2.0 in the library, which was organised by CILIP in Scotland (CILIPS) and took place 2 Jul 2009.
Graham Lavender on blogs and Twitter at John Abbott 2010guybrariang
This is the presentation I gave to students in John Abbott's ILT program on Oct 22, 2010. It's a slightly modified version of the presentation that I gave at Web 2.You 2010.
A presentation made to the 2009 Coventry Teachers' Conference. There are screen builds so may only be properly viewable when downloaded. CC licence 3.0 noncommercial, attribute, sharealike
Event: Metadata and Web 2.0 seminar
Organised by: Cataloguing & Indexing Group in Scotland
Held on Friday 2nd March at the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
Presented by: Vicki Cormie
Using a Personalised Start Page Service to Deliver a Public Library PortalEddie Byrne
Presentation given by Eddie Byrne, Senior Librarian, Dublin City Public Libraries, at Internet Librarian International, London, 15th October 2009. http://bit.ly/K438L
Human Scale Web Collecting for Individuals and Institutions (Webrecorder Work...Anna Perricci
This is the main slide deck for a workshop at iPRES 2018 on human scale web collecting. A primary focus of the presentation was the use of Webrecorder.io, a free, open source web archiving tool available to all.
Digital collections: Increasing awareness and useButtes
Your digital collections are online. What's next? Learn how CONTENTdm users including libraries, museums and archives use a variety of ways to increase awareness and promote their digital collections. The session will also highlight the use of the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway that provides you with a self-service tool for uploading the metadata of your unique digital content to WorldCat and is available to all repository managers.
WordPress Multisite | WordPress Meetup Saint Petersburg, Russia 13 January 2017Doug Lawrence
Choosing WordPress Multisite set us on a path, where we overcame negative hosting companies and developers whose reaction to multisite was laced with suspicion. But with the help of friends and suppliers from within the WordPress community globally we overcame the challenges and now look back and know we made the right choice
A practical overview of potential uses for Web2.0 in library services.
Delivered by Phil Bradley, Freelance Librarian and Internet Consultant.
Part of Enterprise, engagement and new communication: Web2.0 in the library, which was organised by CILIP in Scotland (CILIPS) and took place 2 Jul 2009.
Graham Lavender on blogs and Twitter at John Abbott 2010guybrariang
This is the presentation I gave to students in John Abbott's ILT program on Oct 22, 2010. It's a slightly modified version of the presentation that I gave at Web 2.You 2010.
A presentation made to the 2009 Coventry Teachers' Conference. There are screen builds so may only be properly viewable when downloaded. CC licence 3.0 noncommercial, attribute, sharealike
Event: Metadata and Web 2.0 seminar
Organised by: Cataloguing & Indexing Group in Scotland
Held on Friday 2nd March at the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
Presented by: Vicki Cormie
Using a Personalised Start Page Service to Deliver a Public Library PortalEddie Byrne
Presentation given by Eddie Byrne, Senior Librarian, Dublin City Public Libraries, at Internet Librarian International, London, 15th October 2009. http://bit.ly/K438L
Human Scale Web Collecting for Individuals and Institutions (Webrecorder Work...Anna Perricci
This is the main slide deck for a workshop at iPRES 2018 on human scale web collecting. A primary focus of the presentation was the use of Webrecorder.io, a free, open source web archiving tool available to all.
Digital collections: Increasing awareness and useButtes
Your digital collections are online. What's next? Learn how CONTENTdm users including libraries, museums and archives use a variety of ways to increase awareness and promote their digital collections. The session will also highlight the use of the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway that provides you with a self-service tool for uploading the metadata of your unique digital content to WorldCat and is available to all repository managers.
Has your library discussed creating a Flickr account? A MySpace teen site? Creating a blog? David discusses the current social networking transformation taking place, and applies those changes to a library setting. Then David discusses the changes a library needs to make to meet and participate in our new online, participatory world.
Mozilla Browsing History Design ChallengeKatie McCurdy
Initial instructions and plan for our fall 2009 Mozilla Design Challenge, the topic of which is "browsing history." These slides are for the first event, to be held 9/17/09.
Museums, libraries, art institutes, and many other types of organizations need online exhibits - websites that mimic the experience of walking through a gallery discovering interesting and beautiful objects. Commercial museum collections management systems often provide this, but they are expensive and their features are often limited or require extensive customization. Open source exhibit software has proliferated in recent years, and some of these systems now provide features that approach CMS functionality. But what if you are starting with Plone, which is already a full-featured CMS?
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection is engaged in a major website redesign, and they have selected Plone as their CMS. Online exhibits will be an important part of their new website. They envisioned many features, such as image panning and zooming, timelines, favorites, and object comparison, and they also envisioned that online exhibits would be easy for content editors - even interns - to assemble. In this talk I will describe the online exhibit package that we have created for Dumbarton Oaks, and our incremental approach to defining and implementing it.
Using Omeka as a Gateway to Digital Projectslibrarianrafia
Digital Frontiers 2015 https://digital-frontiers.org/ Presentation on Omeka 9/18/2015
Presenters: Jeff Downing, Lynn Johnson, and Derek Reece (Digital Projects Librarians) and Rafia Mirza (Digital Humanities Librarian)
WordPress is the most widely used Content Management System because it's easy to use, easy to customize and it's free! What a lot of people don't realize is how powerful WordPress can be with the right tools. This presentation will show you how powerful WordPress can be with minimal knowledge of how to design or develop websites. We'll cover the themes and plugins you need to know about and hopefully do some things you didn't think WordPress could do.
This presentation is for everyone whether you are using WordPress already or not. Users, non-users and developers alike should all walk away having learned something new.
1:1 Community Interview Examples & Tips for LibrariesWiLS
Presented at WLA 2021 Annual Conference, November 19th, by Laura Damon-Moore, WiLS; Martín Alvarado, Madison Public Library; Jon Mark Bolthouse, Fond du Lac Public Library
In this session, attendees will hear about three different case studies for using 1:1 interviews as an information gathering method in a library or other municipal setting: 1) to learn how people currently use a city service and how that service might evolve to better suit community needs; 2) to learn about the wider community’s and individuals’ goals and aspirations, and challenges they see or experience in order to inform a library’s planning process; 3) to tell a more complete story of a community’s history through 1:1 interviews. Along with these case studies, session organizers will offer some best practices and practical tips for conducting 1:1 interviews to support these similar yet distinct information gathering efforts.
Presented for WLA 2021 Annual Conference, November 17th, by Melissa McLimans, WiLS and Kim Kiesewetter, WiLS
Surveys, focus groups, your annual report data: it’s all telling you a story about your library and your community. Join Melissa and Kim as they share ways in which libraries can use data to tell the story of both their communities and institutions. It will include an overview of different types of data that a library might use ranging from existing resources to inspiration for new research. To tie everything together, the session will conclude with ways to present selected data in a compelling, narrative format to tell a larger story to a variety of audiences.
he Past Through Tomorrow: Empowering Digital History at the LibraryWiLS
Presented at WLA 2021 Annual Conference, November 18th, by Steven Rice, Door County Historical Museum, Museum and Archives Manager; Beth Renstrom, Sturgeon Bay Historical Society Foundation, Inc.; Kristen Whitson, WiLS/Recollection Wisconsin
Recollection Wisconsin resources can prepare your library to respond to the digital heritage needs of your community. Join us to hear about Recollection Wisconsin’s Digital Readiness Community of Practice and how digital readiness applies to your organization. Then learn about how Door County Speaks, a real-life example of digital readiness concepts, responded to the community’s needs to provide oral history kits for collecting community memories and how the oral history kits have been used in the Door County Granary project. Participants will gain a clear understanding of how to implement digital projects resources in their own organizations.
Can Do! The WiLS Toolbox for Building a Culture of Shared WorkWiLS
At the 2021 WLA Support Staff and Circulation Services (SSCS) conference, held on May 27th, our WiLS Administrative Team presented, Can do!: The WiLS Toolbox for Building a Culture of Shared Work. Lisa Marten, Rebecca Rosenstiel, and Melody Clark shared their favorite tools and strategies for streamlining work in a way that honors individual accountability and contributions, ensures everyone supports one another, aims to continuously improve, and builds a strong culture of teamwork. These practices have helped everyone stay engaged and know what’s expected of them and their fellow team members - and most importantly, it creates an atmosphere of fun and cooperation in our remote office. Our entire WiLS staff and our members reap the benefits of this high-functioning team! Check out their presentation slides and feel free to contact us at information@wils.org if you have any questions.
Setting Your Library's Course with Community DemographicsWiLS
Demographic data provides valuable insights about a community’s past, current, and future needs and can help libraries make critical decisions related to resource allocation, service provision, and even library staffing. This presentation covers what demographics are, how you can find them about your community, and how you can use the information to make data informed decisions for your library.
Presented by Kim Kiesewetter and Melissa McLimans for the Wisconsin Library Association's 1-Day Virtual Conference on November 11, 2020.
Lead the Way 2020: Facilitation Tools, Techniques, and Tips WiLS
Placing the community at the center of how the library plans and operates is vital, whether it is engaging residents to learn about aspirations or developing a collaboration with community partners. To be most successful when engaging community members or partners, quality facilitation is required. In this program, we share facilitator techniques and tools, including best practices for running effective meetings and holding conversations, that you can use to constructively manage both the process and people in different facilitation situations. In addition, we share our on-the-ground facilitator tips developed from our organization’s experience providing facilitation for different needs and environments.
Presented by Andi Coffin and Melissa McLimans for UW-Madison's Lead the Way conference on November 17, 2020
February 28, 2020. The WiLS 2020 Annual Membership Meeting shared with our members what we’ve been up to, including:
1) results of WiLS Ideas to Action Fund projects, including how those projects benefit other WiLS members
2) an update on the new WiLS business model, which has been developed to better align with our values and how we want to benefit the community
Presented by Maria Dahman, User Experience Researcher, University of Wisconsin-Madison for WiLSWorld 2019 on July 24th in Madison, Wisconsin.
You’ve gathered website analytics, run surveys, and observed how people use your website and other digital resources– now what? Impressive user research doesn’t matter much if the research isn’t used. More than just communicating what we learned in our research, communicating what we recommend for website or application improvements and framing the recommendations to our audiences in meaningful ways is a skill of its own. In this workshop, we’ll look at findings from several types of research projects and work through positive and negative examples of how the findings are used to create recommendations. This is useful for both qualitative user experience research (interviews, usability testing) and quantitative research (page analytics, usability scales). Be a better advocate for your users. Make the hard work from your interviews and other user research count!
Presented by Vicki Tobias, Program Coordinator, Curating Community Digital Collection & Recollection Wisconsin for DPLAFest 2019 on Wednesday, April 17 in Chicago, IL.
Curating Community Digital Collections (CCDC), a two-year, IMLS grant-funded program managed by WiLS and Recollection Wisconsin, a DPLA Service Hub for Wisconsin cultural heritage organizations. Launched in December 2017, CCDC aims to 1) provide digital stewardship practicum experience for information school graduate students; 2) to help small or under-resourced institutions in Wisconsin develop and sustain a digital preservation program; and 3) to build community around digital preservation work within Wisconsin and beyond.
Building Belonging: Libraries and Social JusticeWiLS
Presented by Sarah Lawton, Neighborhood Library Supervisor, Madison Public Library for WiLSWorld 2019 on July 23rd in Madison, Wisconsin.
Libraries exist at the intersection of institution and community, an opportune space for building compassion and supporting collective action. Sarah will explore the ways that libraries around the country are working with their communities to challenge systemic racism, break down barriers, and confront oppression.
Presented by Rebecca Stavick, Executive Director of Do Space, Co-Founder of Open Nebraska for WiLSWorld 2019 on July 23rd in Madison, Wisconsin
Disrupting the status quo is difficult and uncomfortable work. In the Midwest, as well as in the library profession, we often value being polite over challenging the established way of doing things — even if those things are holding us back. In this talk, Stavick will discuss how the future of libraries depends on our ability to turn uncomfortable conversations into positive action. Attendees will learn how to think like a hacker in order to overcome barriers in their work, and how to leverage the philosophy of #goodtrouble to empower our communities.
Choosing Privacy: Raising Awareness and Engaging Patrons in Privacy IssuesWiLS
Presented by Rob Nunez, Division Head for Support Services, Kenosha Public Library for WiLSWorld 2019 on July 23 in Madison, Wisconsin
Personal privacy is no longer a guarantee in today’s society, but libraries are still seen as a safe haven for the public. While libraries change to keep up with technical needs, there are times we are swept up with whether or not we can, we never stop to ask if we should. With some libraries sharing full patron records with school administrations and others being tempted to bring in facial recognition into their spaces, it’s still a professional duty to respect and promote privacy. In this talk we will cover the ALA Privacy Subcommittee’s work, and what libraries can do to get involved.
The Library as Publisher: How Pressbooks Supports Knowledge SharingWiLS
Presented by Steel Wagstaff, Educational Client Manager, Pressbooks for WiLSWorld 2019 on July 23rd in Madison, Wisconsin.
Pressbooks is an open-source book publishing platform that makes it easy for authors to publish books on the web and produce clean, well-formatted exports in multiple formats, including ebooks, print-ready PDFs, and various XML flavors. In this presentation, Pressbooks’ educational client manager Steel Wagstaff will outline the values and principles that have motivated the development of this platform and share some of the ways that libraries (both academic and public) and other educational institutions are using Pressbooks to publish a wide variety of content, from openly licensed textbooks to self-authored novels and just about everything in between.
WiLSWorld 2019 Lightning Talks: Community Engagement ShowcaseWiLS
Presented by Jennifer Bernetzke, Schreiner Memorial Library;
Kristen Leffelman, Wisconsin Historical Society; Kristen Maples, UW-Madison iSchool; Tessa Michaelson Schmidt, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction; Jane Roisum, Fox Valley Technical College; Tasha Saecker, Appleton Public Library; Kristen Whitson, UW-Madison iSchool for WiLSWorld 2019 on July 23rd in Madison, Wisconsin.
Wisconsin libraries are “turning outward” in all kinds of creative ways to cultivate positive change in their communities. Hear about a wide range of community engagement projects, including successes, challenges, and lessons learned.
Engaged and Thriving: Building Peer Support Systems for StaffWiLS
Delivered by Kim Boldt, Branch Manager, Milwaukee Public Library; Melody Clark, Community Liaison and Service Specialist, WiLS; Andi Coffin, Community Liaison and Service Specialist, WiLS; Nathan Dowd, Library Director, Edgewood College for WiLSWorld 2019 on July 23rd in Madison, Wisconsin.
According to a Gallup study, employees who are “engaged and thriving” are 59 percent less likely to look for a job with a different organization in the next 12 months. How do people stay “engaged and thriving?” One key component is feeling supported. The structure in organizations to support employees is more than just chance, and thoughtfully developing a structure for peers to support one another can be a valuable component in developing employee well-being.. In this program, presenters will share deliberately developed approaches to peer support in their institution.
Productivity Tools You Won't Believe You Lived Without!WiLS
Presented by Melody Clark, WiLS and Sara Gold, WiLS for Peer Council 2019 on June 3rd at Madison Public Library in Madison, WI
If you are like us, you are always on the lookout for technology that will help improve your productivity, make better use of your time, eliminate duplicate efforts, and simplify processes. As a virtual organization, WiLS relies heavily on tools to help manage tasks and groups, improve communication, and streamline workflows. This session will share information about tools WiLS uses in everyday life for project management (like Basecamp and something we call "Megasheets"), communication (like Slack and Front), and data management (like Airtable). Feel free to bring your own favorite tools that help you in your work to share with attendees!
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
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Museum Websites
1. MUSEUM WEBSITES
Creating a Dynamic and Useful Website for
Museums, Historical Societies and Smaller
Libraries
Mark Beatty
mbeatty@wils.wisc.edu
November 12, 2012
2. Sample Sites
• South Wood County Historical Museum
• http://www.swch-museum.com
• Arlington VA
• http://library.arlingtonva.us/
• Morrison County Historical Society
• http://www.morrisoncountyhistory.org
• http://tinyurl.com/4nzr6n3
• Buildings Demo
• http://www.wilsorama.org/buildings/
• Waterford Library *
• http://www.waterford.lib.wi.us/
• SWLS
• http://swls.wordpress.com/
• * transitioned in 30 days
3. Why WordPress
• Easy to use and update
• Dynamic
• Looks terrific
• Interoperability
• Spend your time communicating with your patrons
• Not writing code
• http://wordpress.org/
• http://wordpress.com/
4. Hosting
• Your own solution, get installer from WordPress.org
• Local Government
• Campus
• Who’s doing it now
• Commerical options
• Bluehost
• http://www.bluehost.com/
• DreamHost
• http://dreamhost.com/
• 1and1
• http://www.1and1.com/
• WordPress.com
• http://wordpress.com/
5. Themes
• Your public face
• Your physical organization
• Your style
• Your content organization
• Navigation
• Instant change for a whole new look
• http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/
6. Static v. Dynamic content
• Pages are Static
• How to’s
• Location
• Contacts
• Calendars
• Web forms
• Posts are Dynamic
• Events
• Announcements
• Readers alerts
7. Widgets
• Side bar and footer blocks
• Header bar, provides branding and navigation*
• Persistent information on every page
• Search your OPAC
• RSS Feeds
• Social links
• Basic Extended navigation
• * not really a “widget” but still a visual extra content block and in
some themes can add widgets to the header area
8. Interoperability
• Google extensions like
• http://www.google.com/intl/en/about/products/
• Calendar
• Maps
• Docs to Web Forms
• Library Thing or Good Reads
• http://www.librarything.com/
• Open Book
• http://openlibrary.org/
• RSS feeds and subscriptions
• http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/syndicate.asp
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mailchimp/
• Engaged Patrons
• http://engagedpatrons.org/
9. Plug ins
• Akismet – Spam Control
• Easy Rotator for WP – plus a desktop app – Slideshows
• Image Widget – graphics in widgets
• Open Book – insert book covers and data
• Sharing is Caring – links to social media on pages and
posts – Users repost Your content to Their social
• Subscribe/Connect/Follow Widget – social links widget –
Your social sites delivered to Users
10. Operating
• Get your people organized
• Dynamic site so want dynamic people contributing
• Assign user levels
• Easy to contribute
• Don’t mess up others stuff
• Front page is what’s new, keep it so
• Remember it’s easy to do
11. Go do it!
• Start up can be fast
• Content population can be easy
• Adding and deleting resources is easy
• Changing entire look is easy
• It’s dynamic so…
• Don’t worry about perfect, especially day one
• Concentrate on making it better and better and more
useful every day
• Your website can be a conversation between you and
your patrons
12. MUSEUM WEBSITES
Creating a Dynamic and Useful Website for
Museums, Historical Societies and Smaller
Libraries
Mark Beatty
mbeatty@wils.wisc.edu
November 12, 2012