Getclicky.com is a great web analytics tool that is not only free and easy to use but extremely powerful. You can see who is visiting your website, from where, where they go on your site, and what operating system and browser they use. This can allow libraries to make better educated decisions about the design of their websites. Take a look!
If you find better websites or use getclicky please email or comment and let me know how you use it. And, as always, comment, criticize, and don’t forget to subscribe.
After the Retirement of Ann Marie Gold (who I met and really liked) Sacramento public Library has a new library director, Phil Batchelor. See the whole story here –
Batchelor has outlined a plan that includes over 300 improvements to the Sacramento Public Library System. I took some time and read through this outline and found a lot of things that I think we need to start thinking about in our own library system. It’s exceptional in its details and comprehensiveness. If you’re a librarian and interested in this kind of thing you can find the full PDF document here –
It looks like everything was thought of and no stone was left unturned. If you can find some details missing, I’d love to hear them. Feel free to leave a comment or send a message on your thoughts about the plan, the new director, or on Sacramento Public Library in general. I’d love to hear them. Thanks team.
As always, if you have a couple bucks lying around, feel free to support literacy and education in coastal communities and donate to the Coastal Education Project at http://www.coastaleducationproject.org
Hey team, despite my inflammatory title here I want to say that I haven’t made up my mind about the use of the Dewey Decimal System. In any case, I absolutely applaud Maricopa County Library for taking a risk and trying to see what happens without the Dewey Decimal System. I spoke with a couple of folks from this library at a conference in 2008 and they said it was a fantastic decision. So… they’re two years into this and I have family living in Maricopa County and I’m hoping I can take a trip down there and see how the patrons are liking it. After all, that’s who its all for. But if you are the last librarian on the planet to hear about this, here is a great interview from NPR to fill you in – It’s audio of course since text is dead as a medium on the internet anyway. – http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11131877
PC Sweeney 