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=Creating/ Redesigning your library website: a panel discussion= SDLA Annual Conference Thursday, September 23rd, 2010. 8:30-9:30 am

A panel discussion on creating and/or redesigning a library website. Library personnel from libraries of various shapes and sizes that have either created or redesigned a site over the past couple of years will be the panelists. Audience members would get a sense of the different software that could be used (from high tech to simply using a blog), obstacles that the designers had to face and how they worked around them, and ideas for their own website projects.

Panelists:
Producers: Brenda Hemmelman and Stacia McGourty, South Dakota State Library
 * **Wynne Nafus Sayer,** South Dakota State Library. Information Officer/ Webmaster. Currently redesigning SDSL website.
 * **Peg Williams,** Potter County Library. Librarian. Uses a blog for public library website.
 * **Cindy Messenger**, Hot Springs Public Library. Worked with a design agency on website redesign.
 * **Danielle Loftus**, USD University Libraries. In-house Webmaster, Academic library. Utilized 2.0 tools including Chat, RSS.
 * Lea Briggs, Presentation College.
 * Angela Ostrander, Faith Public Library.

Presentation:
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Discussion Points:

 * Building your Library Website Pros and Cons:
 * Design by Committee
 * In-House
 * Outsourcing
 * Blog/Wikis
 * Utilizing 2.0 tools: Flickr, YouTube, etc.
 * How many use LibraryThing? SDSL, USD... Incorporation into website
 * User and Accessibility Testing (What's that?)
 * Keeping on top of web trends: Blogs, RSS, podcasts, etc.
 * On the home page I have a link to LibraryThing – we use this and the RSS for our Best Seller-new books. I also have a link to a news blog feed on the homepage and this page with feeds and additional blogs for updating info: [] -- Danielle Loftus, USD
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 * Website Questions: Q&A Session.
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Recommended Reading:
Paul Boag (2010). //Website Owner's Manual//. Greenwich, CT: Manning Publications, Co. ISBN: 1933988452 []

David Lee King. (2010). //Does your Website Look Professional?// Retrieved May 12, 2010 from David Lee King: []

Scott Douglas. (2010). //Virtually Yours: Online tools your library needs now and why// Retrieved May 12, 2010 from Speak Quietly: Ramblings About Libraries, Writing and Everything in Between: []

Chris Peters. (2009). //A Nonprofit’s Guide to Building Simple, Low-Cost Websites// Retrieved August 18, 2010 from TechSoup.org: []

TONS of other links are on Wynn's Delicious listing: [] or []

Notes:
The purpose of this Wiki is so that panelists can plot their discussion points and create a PowerPoint display.