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In this episode we will talk about another important part of good library service: website design. Your website, or your webpage on someone else’s site, is your online branch. The world has moved online, and every single library, no matter how large or small, needs to be there. It’s an important way to share information and your resources – so let’s work on making it pretty good!

We are going to start by saying that none of us are website experts. None of us code. None of us have certifications or training. And you know what? We still built our website ourselves!

It’s not perfect – in fact this summer we are doing a pretty big overhaul of it, so keep an eye on things changing. And when things break, we sometimes panic and go to Starbucks for emergency coffee infusions to make it all feel better. In fact, as we were putting together the information for this episode, some unexplained glitch hit our site and we were working on resolving it.

But here we are. We have a site. It’s imperfect, but it’s fine. Problems will always happen, with any kind of program or service – and it is not the end of the world. The goal is just to keep building it and making it better.

You can do this too! And really – you need to do this.