Welcome to our NEW website!

On this new website, I can't figure out how to create an inter-library loan, or renew interlibrary materials. It is not listed under your "How Do I?" section on the left side of the page.

RE: Tell me more

I am unable to access this program even though I have created an account and have the correct user name and password as verified to me in an email. My computer is a 2009 hp with windows 7 and it has all the necessary elements to run "Tell Me More." I have spoken to at least three people from reference and they have been unable to help. They cannot access this program from within the library so they can't give me a solution. Not only that but they can't give me the name or number of anyone who knows anything about it. Why does the library have a program they know nothing about and have no contacts for patrons to find out.

The new home page has a news feed (RSS or ATOM) that Firefox autodiscovers, but the feed is empty.

http://ppld.org/rss.xml

So, I'm reading through these comments and I am seeing that there are a lot of people either thinking the catalog changed, or complaining about the catalog. I just wanted to emphasize that the catalog is exactly the way it's always been. No changes, same searching and everything else. The cool - very cool - new and improved site is what changed. Not the catalog. Just saying.

I find the new web site confusing & difficult to navigate – obviously not user friendly - not at all as it should be programmed!

It seems to me that the first business of the program should be to allow the user a clear route to their account or to search to find a certain book. With all the other library services secondary! After all a library is first & foremost for loaning materials.

If the programming work is done correctly & tested before installation occurs (which it definitely should & can be) there should be little (if any) intermittent downtime during an upgrade. Any necessary intermittent downtown should be during overnight hours when there would be less chance of hassle for users.

I cannot access the digital photo archives. Is this due to the web site update? If so, can you tell me when they will be back online?

I think that your new website is terrible. Please go back to the original

I have tried several times to login to my account and get no response from the system. I usually do this very late at night, are there times when the system is down?

You might want to look at the markup errors:

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fppld.org%2Fwhats-new%2Fwe...

Your new web site / home page is far too "busy", there's far too much stuff on it (none of which I care about). For that matter, your old home page was just as bad. I can and do complain on technical grounds -- wasted use of bandwidth, complex HTML provokes brower compatibility problems. But mostly I find it unusable -- the visual clutter and distraction makes it hard to use.

Please bring back http://ppld.org/defaulttextonly.asp, or something similar, a plain, simple, sparse home page. It's all I ever used before. Alternately, and easily remembered direct link to account login, since that is all I use 99% of the time.

Note http://ppld.org/defaulttextonly.asp presently returns a 404, page not found error.

I see your nice site is based on Drupal. I used Drupal for my last project, and I really like it too. Your new PPLD site is much better, and I hope Sirsi (the catalog) updates its site for new web technologies and practices. When I use Sirsi, I feel like I am in 1990's using Netscape.

In this comment reply form, the bullets under the form are slightly too far to the left in Firefox 3.6. The bullets should be in the white area, but they are on the margin instead.

I like the page layout looks better than the one before. I particularly like the "How Do I" feature. I can quickly find answers to some of the common questions. I understand that, once rolled out, it may take users a few days to get used to the new layout. I always felt that your current homepage was too plain, though too simple. The new layout reduces #clicks for where I want to go. Well done!

I would like these extra features if possible:

1. Holds expiry: The Holds page does not tell me how close I am to the one-year expiry of my unfilled held items. Showing the date will tell me if I still have to renew my hold. Alternatively, user could be notified (via email) of the approaching expiry of their hold.
2. List of To-Reads: I would like to maintain a list of books to read or DVD's to watch on the website. With a tremendous catalog available via ILL, I find that there are lot more books that I want to borrow thru PPLD..!!!

Thanks!

I hope the new website will be faster--the old one just bogs down and takes forever to run. Also, I hope for improved search capabilities. The old system does not have a good set of parameters and it often brings up far out possibilities and misses closer results.

So far it looks good and looks like a lot of resources I didn't know were available.
Seems very intuitive and easy to move around and also to get to the most used areas.

Looking forward to full conversion.

Bob