The new site looks lovely, and aside from a few redirects that got overlooked in the haste to get a move on before the “old” site was closed down (we were down to the wire…), it’s going great. Plus nobody’s pacemaker will stop if a link doesn’t work until late morning tomorrow.
I had one user write me to say “in the future, when you do a system migration…” and I carefully did not write back to say “Trust me, not in my regime.” Actually, now that we’re in a database, migrations in theory would be much easier. I say “in theory” because just the word “migration” makes me queasy and dizzy.
My job now is to do some more staff training, clean up loose ends, and then go forth and give dog and pony shows (though there are some tweaks and improvements that will be very easy to do–I looked at our query structure and realized it would be easy enough to add subject-specific feeds).
And rest.
Posted on this day, other years:
- Death to Jargon: Examples Needed - 2007
- Christianity 2.0 - 2006
- The Cuban Human Rights Crackdown: 18 Months and Counting - 2004
Can’t remember if I commented when you linked to it pre-release but it looks great and should be a model for anyone building a directory based site. Look forward to feeds. I can forsee them being used by some in subject guides.
Congratulations and profuse thanks for all your hard work and a great resource.
In lieu of trackback, here’s my commentary on the new launch over at the lbr weblog:
http://lbr.library-blogs.net/librarians_internet_index.htm