Small project completed: Virtual Tour
I’m working on a few different projects for Somerville Public Library, and one of them is finally complete and live. Two different virtual tours of the library had been created for SPL in the past, but neither was quite complete enough to serve the purpose of showing patrons around. So I merged the two, edited the content and feedback form, updated the maps, added a few new pages, and formatted the tour to match the rest of the site (as it exists now, anyway, since we’re working on the redesign), and voila, new tour.
The site redesign is going slowly, but well. There have been some requests for different new functions on the site, which I’ve decided to incorporate into a phase of the redesign instead of working on as individual projects. I’m in the middle of surveys of the staff, with a patron survey forthcoming, so if anyone has any recommendations or examples of surveys (especially multiple-choice surveys) about web sites for patrons, I’d appreciate any tips you could offer. There’s a creative brief, project planning documentation, and the rest of a schedule to complete, plus a few content management systems to fully evaluate. The planning always takes the longest, and involves the most work, but it’s totally worth it.
One of these days I’ll do a series on technology project planning for libraries. 
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