New website update

Well I've uploaded the new Eastern Regional Libraries website. Spend a moment looking around. A few of the new features are:

New Logo

Eastern Regional Libraries' old logo was in use for almost 30 years and was designed by a member of the public during a logo competition. Our graphic designer, in consultation with library management, designed the bold new logo. The three squares represent the three councils that collaborate to provide a regional library service - Eastern Regional Libraries Corporation. Blue, green and red are colours that appear in one of the three council logos. The white lines represent the chinese character for 3.


Web links wiki

A wiki is a website anyone can edit, there's no need for programming experience. Throughout December library staff are editing the wiki to add the best links available on a variety of subjects and some tutorials on using the resources available in the library. From January we're offering registration to interested members of the public and schools so that they may edit the wiki.


Reader's Corner reviews

We've turned the Reader's Corner staff picks into a blog called Reader's Corner Reviews. This allows the reviews to be updated more frequently and offers a commenting system. We've also added a form to Reader's Corner so website visitors can submit reviews to be added to the blog.


Branch blogs coming soon

Staff in our branches are keen to blog about their local events so we'll be starting some branch blogs. These will take the place of the branch newsletters and will be constantly updated.

Podcasts

Eastern Regional Libraries now offers podcasts for The Eastern Regional Library Show that is broadcast on EasternFM every Wednesday 12:05PM. You'll find a link to podcasts in the left hand menu under community on our main site and over on the menu at the right on our blog.

At the moment I've only been given 3 recordings. We're hoping to build the collection of shows soon.

In addition we are looking at recording author visits to upload to the Twango podcast.


What's Next?

Next I'll be styling the catalogue to fit in with the rest of the site and I'll be giving the Bookmarks forum a new look as well.

Cheers, Maryanne
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