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Off the shelf - Gosford Library's RA site
URL: http://www.gosford.nsw.gov.au/library/books
Background
Background
- created in June 2007
- reason for creating the site came from 2 areas
- Readers advisory training for staff, wanted a central point for all RA tools and resources
- Seeing other blogs at reference seminar inspired us to create one of our own, but we struck various problems and decided to go with a website as an interim measure
- Brought together several sections of our website which had previously been separated.
- Author lists in various genres
- Book club information
- "Bestsellers"
- NoveList database
- Increased number of lists available
- in "niche" genres eg. Vampire romance
- in themes as well as genres
- Co-operative effort of many staff
- Submitting book reviews
- Submitting themed guides
- Creating author lists
- RA training sessions inspire new contributors!
- Higher level of interactivity
- Open URL link to WebOpac - every book listed on the site is available in our library and customers can instantly see if the item is in or out
- Link for customers to email their reviews
- Links to other websites as springboard to WWW
- Only one staff member currently with access to update the site
- Limited as to format and design of site by Council restraints
- Moderate use of site by staff, small number of customers using and contributing at this stage
- No ability to tag or search reviews
- Blog
- Move site to a blog
- IT concerns
- Marketing the blog to customers - have marketed current site only through word of mouth and printed author bookmarks
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