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The Creative Librarian is a hub for matters important to librarians/information scientists of today. There is a definite lean towards electronic issues, however it isn't restricted to only those. Hopefully this site will also be useful for informing non-librarians on these issues as so many of them affect us all.

Archive for the “Website Design” Category

The Problems of Creating an Academic Library Website

Someone recently asked me about the problems faced by academic library websites and I immediately started writing a list. Being a fairly unique part of an organization is difficult enough. But the radical changes in how people access and use information are still ongoing. What is the Audience? There are many challenges for academic library [...]

HTML5 and you

I imagine if web managers in libraries have even heard of HTML5 they consider it something to worry about in a few years. The truth is that it brings a lot of useful options that can be used now in most browsers, including IE6 (with a small javascript). The thing that should make librarians happy [...]

The Web Design Survey

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : The Web Design Survey Presenting A List Apart’s first annual web design survey. The information it collects will help us form a long overdue picture of the ways web design is really practiced around the globe. The more people who complete the survey, the richer and more detailed the picture will [...]

Information Design for the New Web

InfoTangle :: Information Design for the New Web :: April :: 2007 People are changing the way that they consume online information, as well as their expectations about its delivery. The social nature of the Web brings with it an expectation of interaction with information and modern Web design is reflecting that. There are now [...]

hennepin county library’s bookspace

hennepin county library’s bookspace The ever resourceful Librarian in Black breaks a huge story about hennepin county library’s bookspace which is an online community based around books. I’m going to copy her list of things readers can do at bookspace: * create their own account for Book Space * sign up for e-mail alerts on [...]

The BBC's Fifteen Web Principles

Tomski: The BBC’s Fifteen Web Principles Build web products that meet audience needs: anticipate needs not yet fully articulated by audiences, then meet them with products that set new standards. (nicked from Google) The very best websites do one thing really, really well: do less, but execute perfectly. (again, nicked from Google, with a tip [...]