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SPICE UP YOUR WEBSITE
  • SWKLS Tech Day – September 25, 2009
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Website Must Haves
  • Address of your library including state
  • Contact information: The phone number should at least be available if not a main email address.
  •  Library Hours
  •  Some sort of a link to your card catalog (if applicable)
  • Links to State Library/ KSLC (Kansas State Library Card)
  • Links to area information



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Tips
  • Keep it simple
  • Know your audience
  • Look at other sites to help you decide what you like and don’t like
  • Know your limits and your library’s limits
  • Know technology can make updating your site easy (easier)
  • Try to set up a schedule to regularly update or check website




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Extras to Spice it Up!
  • Pictures
  • Video, Screencasts
    • www.screentoaster.com – free online screencasting site
    • www.jing.com – free screencasting software
  • Slideshows
    • www.slide.com – free slideshows
    • www.rockyou.com – free slideshows
    • www.animoto.com – free 30 second videos/slideshows. Can make longer ones for a fee.
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Extras…  (cont’d.)
  • Widgets, Feeds, Links, etc.
    • Lots of sites have widgets you can add to your site
    • Several news sites also have rss        feeds you can pull in
  • Reader’s Advisory Tools
    • www.goodreads.com
    • www.librarything.com
    • www.shelfari.com



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Photos
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Photos (cont’d)
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Video, Screencasts



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Video… (cont’d)
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Slideshows
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Widgets, Feeds, Links, etc.
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Widgets…(cont’d)
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Widgets… (cont’d)
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Readers’ Advisory
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Readers’ (cont’d)
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More Sites to Checkout
  • http://www.tscpl.org – Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library
  • http://www.jocolibrary.org  – Johnson County Library
  • www.swkls.org – click on Member Libraries
  • http://upgrade.mykansaslibrary.org – click on NEKLS KLOW
  • www.mykansaslibrary.org – Official KLOW (Kansas Libraries on the Web) Site


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More Sites… (Cont’d)
  • http://swkls.mykansaslibrary.org – SWKLS KLOW Training Site. KLOW specific, but can be used on any website platform.
  • http://vcal.swkls.org/versogen/openurl.htm - Open URL Generator.  Link can be found on the www.swkls.org site.
  • System Library Sites:  www.nekls.org, www.nwkls.org, www.sckls.info, www.ckls.org, www.sekls.lib.ks.us, www.manhattan.lib.ks.us/nckl