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Wanted: Your Library's Photo

AURORA, CO, SEPTEMBER 15, 2006 — On Sept. 5, BCR introduced a new, redesigned Web site at www.bcr.org/. A feature of the new site is the Member Library Focus, just to the left on the front page. Each time a visitor arrives at www.bcr.org/, a photo of a different BCR member library appears in the Member Library Focus box. BCR is inviting all member libraries to join the collection of photos that rotate randomly as readers browse to the Web site. Send an electronic photo of the library to BCR's Lisa Holmberg at lholmber@bcr.org. The name of the library, the institution, city and state should be included.

As indicated by the Member Library Focus, the emphasis of the new Web site is BCR members/users. A BCR Web Usability Group composed of staff from member libraries throughout BCR's 11 member states guided BCR's Internet Team in the redesign. The new site reflects the Usability Group's requests for more ease of use and better navigation.

Users will continue to find most everything that was available on BCR's previous Web site and more, and find it all easier and faster. Among the new Web site features users will find:

  • Dropdown menus at the top of every page, making it easy to browse from one page to another and always know just where you are.
  • Menus located down the left-hand side of the page, making navigation through each section fast and easy.
  • BCR's address and phone numbers readily available at the bottom of every page.
  • Help boxes — with staff photos and email addresses - atop most pages so people immediately know who to contact with questions and how to contact them.
  • A Stumped? box in the bottom left-hand corner of each page, providing a ready vehicle for questions or suggestions about how the Web site can be made even better.

BCR is a nonprofit, multistate library network that has served the library community since its founding in 1935, providing cost-effective library and information services. Today BCR serves more than 1,086 voting-member libraries in 42 states, Canada and Guam, many through statewide agreements with state library agencies in 11 western states allowing all libraries in those states to use BCR services as member institutions.