Website Evaluation for
http://www.ftrf.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/confevents/preswk/index.cfm
Emerging Leaders 2011: Betsy Appleton, Miranda Rivers, Sibyl Schaefer, Melanie Toledo, &
Cynthia Wilson
Links & Searching
1.) Question: Event Finder and Event Map: are these the same things? (Clarity is needed.)
2.) Planning your Preservation Week Event pdf
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/confevents/preswk/events/planevent.cfm is a dead link.
3.) Sharing your Success: Telling your Preservation Week Story and Share your story should be
linked.
4.) The right side navigation icons go to external links, however, Share my story you must click
on the words “Share Now" and the icon goes nowhere. It is inconsistent with the rest of the
page.
Content
5.) Add any available discount codes for 2011 and remove outdated discount.
6.) The current press releases need to be added.
7.) The second paragraph, first sentence was the best basic description of what Preservation
Week is. While the stats in the first paragraph under that banner are staggering, I think they
would be more effective if that second paragraph came first.
8.) The fact sheet needs to be updated with 2011 information; The link to What is Preservation
Week needs to be updated with 2011 info. The short messages section needs to be updated
with 2011 info. The Event toolkit checklist has an outdated logo.
9.) The first link is for last year’s events and I believe that you should add the most recent at the
top and if libraries are looking for ideas that should be a little bit later in the page. The reason for
this is because attention spans are short and people may not read the whole page, despite the
valuable information.
10.) Grant information for Preservation would be a great addition to the site. We recommend
adding it. It could be available in event planning, press releases (where applicable) and
perhaps discount areas.
11.) Add reports about Preservation Week.
12.) We recommend a spot where librarians could be more collaborative during the process of
event planning in addition to the Share My Story, which is after events have occurred.
Navigation & Design
13.) The heading for Preservation@Your library is not a hyperlink--I clicked on it as if it was-perhaps add this? Is there a reason PW Partners is the first on that side bar list? I think it would
be better to have links to more active parts of the site (news, events, etc.) in that area.
14.) It would be good to highlight discounts in some sort of loop--is there a way to cycle through
little blurbs like ALA does with those twitter feeds during conferences?
15.) The objectives for Preservation Week should be more prominent.
16.) I would also recommend a visual for the google map right on the page. (Completed)
17.) It would it be helpful to have an RSS feed loop of the news releases in that right side
column.
18.) Hard to tell what the "sand" and "hourglass" is in this logo, and therefore why it is there.
Recommendation: Re-scale the sand/hourglass image so it is all there.
19.) I would recommend more striking graphics about, perhaps showing the deterioration of
some collections and why it is important to help them as well as pictures of people’s personal
treasures.Maybe add a photo album and obtain before and after pictures from people about the
work that they did for preservation week?