New Books, Movies, Music Web Site (12)
December 10, 2007
Have you noticed anything different about the website lately? There’s a new Books Movies Music page!
Why a different page? Well, there’s a lot of good stuff we wanted to highlight. Like:
Staff Picks
You choose what books are featured! Use the linked form to tell us what books/movies you are enjoying. Include the title and author. You may include a review or rate it from 0.0 to 5.0 stars. Picks will be updated often.
Browse lists
See our most recent Movies and watch the previews online. Browse dozens of genre lists and updated new materials. Movies with Narration, books about World War II are among our dozens of In-depth bibliographies. New materials lists are also available as RSS feeds.
Catalog links
Find all TV shows on DVD, find all Blues CDs, etc.
Del.ico.us navigation
This lets you find all sorts of linked book guides. Say you want to find all weekly New York Times best sellers lists. You could look on New York Times’ web site, or you could look in the del.icio.us links and find the lists. Plus, these link directly to the library catalog, so you can reserve the copy in a few clicks!
| Your mission, should you choose to accept it: 1. Find the ‘Staff Picks’ area of the Books Movies Music page. 2. Use the form to share a book or movie you’ve recently enjoyed. 3. Take the survey. |
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December 21, 2007 at 2:58 pm
I like the featued staff picks and a few other changes but I’m not too crazy about del.ic.ious and wading backward to see, in a cluttered area, sites like All Music Guide, which used to be right on top. Guess the social networking is the thing but there is something to be said for organized and slightly annotated links.
Call me old fashioned but I’m not really intersted in getting lost in someone elses picks all the time, esp. on a clean website.
December 21, 2007 at 4:10 pm
When you link to the Staff Picks and put in your title, author, and rating it goes to Question Point/Ask a Librarian, so who sees this and what do they do with it?
December 30, 2007 at 2:51 pm
Old Fashioned,
Thanks for the feedback. del.icio.us has its merits and shortcomings, as you point out. Anyone in the library who is interested can now add and annotate these links without going through the web team. Also, the apparent disorder allows users to order and sort and access the links by their own choosing.
I’ve tried to balance this out by adding a few links that mimic the old recommended sites (see Good Books Sites). We’ll try it out, del.icio.us may ultimately be a poor fit.
All Music Guide is already linked from a variety of sources. We’re not ranking the links.
The Staff picks form runs through Questionpoint. I pick up the suggestions and add them to the site. I don’t have a way to set up a good web form, so Questionpoint serves this purpose for now.
Cook