Building the Digital Branch for the 21st Century
Originally presented September 15, 2009.
When was the last time your website was redesigned - three years ago? Last century? Join presenter David Lee King for Building the Digital Branch: Guidelines to Transform Your Website for the 21st Century, a webinar brought to you in special collaboration with WebJunction-Kansas and ALA TechSource. David explores and expands on the process his web team used at Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library to transform their outdated website into a 21st century digital branch. David covers the differences between a website and a digital branch, and describes the redesign process - everything from the introductory planning stages of overhauling their website to the process of actually "doing stuff" at the new digital branch. Finally, planning for the future is discussed.
Archive viewing options:
- View in Wimba Classroom (combined archive of audio, slides and chat)
- View the slides (png)
- View Chat log (xls) Note: trimmed down a bit to account for chat re: tech difficulties.
Learn and share more about this topic on WebJunction:
- Virtual Library
- Virtual Reference
- Social Networking & Web Tools
- Excerpt from David Lee King's edition of Library Technology Reports: What is a Digital Branch, Anyway?
- Continue the Discussion!
- Explore related WebJunction courses in the Course Catalog including:
Amigos Instructor-Led courses beginning in September: Tech Topics: Library 2.0 and Tools for the Reference Desk
Basic Web-based Reference (LibraryU)
Numerous courses on Web Design
If you are affiliated with a WebJunction Partner, be sure to access these courses via your affiliation's course catalog to take full advantage of many free and reduced-priced courses. For more information on affiliations, see the User Guide.
Additional Resources:
- David Lee King:
davidleeking.com - blog
davidleeking.com/etc - videoblog
twitter | skype: davidleeking
- http://www.alatechsource.org/DavidLeeKing For ALA TechSource and information on ordering full edition of David Lee King's Library Technology Report
- Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library
- Mentioned during webinar:
- Groundswell
- "watch how people use your website with Clicktale.net"
