Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Reflections on Comments from Teachers and Teacher Librarians:
   Teacher Librarians were very positive.  I fixed some of the tweaks they liked. I notice that sites is still having trouble linking to documents.  The easiest way to handle this seems to be to upload your document as a google doc and then link to the document's URL.
   Teachers were a bit less positive.  Several teachers used the site only to get to the catalog.  Those teachers had issues about using the catalog.  Next year I need to consider training teachers on how to use the catalog as well as how to put items on hold.  Most of the teachers found what they were looking for without any problems and liked the overall design.

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Comments from Users and Year End Survey

Year End Survey:
We are now at the end of the school year.  I am going to send out a survey to teachers and hopefully will get a few responses with feedback as to what teachers used and sent students to.  I will try a poll on the web site to elicit student responses. 
Link to responses to survey of PHS Teachers about the web revision.
Link to responses to survey of PUSD teacher librarians about web revision.


Comments from Users:
Initially there were a few comments both positive and negative. After Oct. it appears students and staff decided they had figured it out and it was here to stay. No more comments or suggestions.
8/23 I very much like the easy-to-use format and visual layout of your new site. The PHS Library word art is cool. Thanks for including my freshman reading lists; I need to send you the lists for seniors.
8/24 I was St. Benarded when I opened the reading lists for fiction and non-fiction (for 9th grade honors).
There are problems with uploading and attaching documents.  I have found the easiest thing to do is to convert them to a google doc and then attach with a URL link.
8/24 I don't like the new website. It is difficult to navigate and confusing. Please change it back.
At this point there was no going back. It is hard to know from this comment what to change to make it easier to navigate.  I did add the databases to the right sidebar in hopes that might help as I believe that is the most frequent reason to visit the library website.
9/6 What are the library hours for students who want a place to study before or after school?
This was answered via email. The answer appears under FAQs as well.
10/16 What is the novell login? Is it my student Id or is it the login ID in the back of my ID card?
This was answered via email.  It has been added to the FAQs .  I learned I need to be careful with terminology.  Novell is obviously librarianese.