It is very true that viewers understand very well what information the library webpages are presenting to them. Icons without captions given should not avoided as viewers probably will have doubts or wrong intrepretation of what the icons represent. Viewers may waste time on checking every icon for the content. If icons are to be used, they should be clearly labelled.
During the lesson, I could see in some of the classmates' storyboards the webpages about e-resources. This has been a problem bothering me since I started to be a TL last academic year. The ex-TL had reminded me that we should respect intellectual properties. When I attended a meeting organised by the district library, they also shared their procedures in handling the acquisition of copyrighted multi-media resources. It requires lots of labour resources as well as financial support. It would probably be very wasteful if we buy expensive items but use little of them. Someone would rather use that limited resources to buy items which has a great demand. Up till now, I have been searching for free resources from the internet. It is hoped that the viewers can have free access to the resources from anywhere at anytime through the library website.
When I was designing the library webpages for PDA presentation, I had put the focus on what I wanted the school community to know and how the library could help them. However, I think I should consider more about the effect of the screen size of the PDA device when showing the information to the viewer. I have so much information to show the viewers, but how I can present the information to the viewers in an effective and visually comfortable way is really the focus of the question.
Is it necessary to build new webpages for the PDA presentation? Or someone just use the zoom in/out function of the PDA to view the exciting pages of the library website, such as the OPAC. I hope I can surf the Net with the PDA to find out the answer to it next lesson on Saturday!
