Remember how last month I blogged about using a wiki for the library’s Readers Advisory Site? It looked like this. Well we ran into some issues, the IT department was having some problems with the input form and the other Librarians didn’t like it (I’m not gonna list their complaints), so I started rethinking it. Since I was going to be building a new one from scratch I knew I wanted patrons to be able to print out the lists as well as be able to use it to see the record in the catalog. I also wanted something other staff were comfortable and familiar with. I knew many of the staff set up a blog during our Library Learning 2.0 program. I’m very familiar with blogging & WordPress, and I knew I could tweak the pages and post to make it function the way I wanted. The library already uses WP for it’s main blog so it was a simple matter to have another blog set up. I got to work and it worked out even better than I’d hoped! See it here, read on for the how I made it happen. First I created 7 Pages, including



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