We made a short video that gives you some highlights of what to look for while exploring this demo website. It’s meant to give you an idea of the features that can be implemented…and remember the look and navigation are all customized for your unique website.
This website is designed so that it can easily be administered by someone with no technical knowledge. Once we customize and structure the site, a few hours of training is all that is necessary for you to update and maintain it yourself. You can click here to see a short video we made explaining some of the features.
The platform we use incorporates a user friendly interface that is very much like a word processor, so library staff can easily keep content dynamic for their patrons. It also allows for the easy implementation of individual blog/websites exemplified with the Teen Book Club, History Blog, and Book Blog. While under the umbrella of the main website, they can be administered independently with separate passwords.
Take time to explore the many different aspects and features that will appeal to all demographics. The Teen Book Club incorporates additional Web 2.0 features that will help bond young adults with the library community and The History Blog can give a unique space to promote local history.
The ability to easily incorporate multimedia can help make visiting the library website more enriching as staff can add video of author interviews, movie trailers, and other content that helps inform patrons of the subject matter.
The front page is intended to help promote the library as an active member of the community and showcase events, new arrivals, and other items of interest to local residents.
Libraries big and small seek to engage their teen patrons in the hopes that they will continue with their love of books, learning, and culture into adulthood. While large libraries certainly have more resources to work with, modern technology has now made it affordable for any library to do a lot. Perhaps the end product will not always be so polished, but the effort to reach out compensates. Embedded here is a short video from the NYC public library, but smaller libraries can make their own…and even reach out to teens to help.
Providing a platform like The Teen Book Club with it’s various interactive features is also an important tool that can help build bonds between the young adult and a lifetime of learning.
“Ford County,” John Grisham’s first collection of short stories, is just one of the new books being added to the library. Set in a small Mississippi town, similar to small towns around the country, these seven stories are Americana at its best.
There are additional new arrivals such as _________ by____________, __________by___________, and Something Else by Somebody. Read the full list inside this post.
Grisham's 'Ford Country'
Age of Wonder
Chronic City
JUST POETRY!!! submissions may be made online at www.highschoolpoetrycontest.com or through the U. S. Mail to the address below. A self-addressed, stamped envelope is required for all U. S. Mail entries. Only one entry per poet per 90 day period will be accepted. Poems must be 20 lines or less to qualify, not counting the title and any spaces between stanzas. Any subject matter will be reviewed. Our address is
Live Poets Society of NJ,
P. O. Box 8841,
Turnersville, NJ 08012
Jack Jones at Lbrary Jam
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
A page of resources, local, regional…….These links can also appear on every post as can be seen in the sidebar to the right.
Town Hall
Fire Department
Police Department
Department Public Works
In this example of book reviews we’ve chosen to include video of the authors being interviewed. Click on the video link below to see how the website can be interactive without your users actually leaving your website.
Lords of Finance
The Good Soldiers
Below are thumbnails of books. While it is always enjoyable to read a review from a local resident, there are other options available to create a dynamic website. In this example the titles of the books below are linked to to external reviews which will pop up to show a snippet of the external webpage. The middle book is linked to a video interview with the author.
Half Broke Horses
Chronic City
