Library 2.0: Tips for Website Compliance to Put into Action Today

Getting started with accessibility standards and compliance can feel overwhelming. You may feel the need to make major changes, even doing a total reboot or rebuild.

Library 2.0: Top 5 Ways to Make Your Website More Accessible

Here’s a question for you: Have you ever been frustrated by an assemble-it-yourself furniture project? The instructions are supposed to be easy to follow, but you find yourself begging a friend to help or hiring someone to do it for you—or worse yet, abandoning the project altogether and returning the item.

Library 2.0: Are You Ready for the Assistive Technologies Your Library Patrons Are Using?

Have you tried to navigate a stroller over a curb and then attempted to open a heavy door to get inside a store? (Did we mention your child is also crying and demanding lunch?) And, it’s raining.

Library 2.0: The 4 Pillars That Make Your Services Digitally Accessible

People have got so many choices when it comes to looking for information. Google, Wikipedia, YouTube are certainly go-to sources, but libraries are very much still sought-after destinations for people.

Library 2.0: Why Everyone’s Talking About Digital Accessibility

Times are changing, exponentially faster than we may want to admit. We’re soaking in water floatation tanks to calm our nerves and planning subdivisions on Mars as one way to deal with climate change.

New Year's (re)Solution: Laughter

Happy New Year! Ba-bye 2021, and hello 2022! Many people begin their new year with resolutions about self-improvement. In fact, Forbes reports that while resolutions often include relationship and career goals, the most popular resolutions are about living healthier, getting happier, and losing weight. However, we.

Tailor Your Email Marketing to Create a Better Patron Experience

Living through the pandemic has pushed us to find new ways to feel connected and build a sense of community. Our digital connections by phones, tablets, and computers have become lifelines to help us cope and stay up to date on what’s happening in our neighborhoods and around the globe. This shift to digital has also.

Using Library Patron Feedback to Improve the Online User Experience

Do patrons notice the design of your catalog and your website? They sure do, and at BiblioCommons, we’ve found that library patrons are very proactive about sharing feedback when given the opportunity. Their feedback can be your library’s secret weapon to improving the online user experience (UX.)

5 Simple Tips to Write Pro Email Subject Lines (Plus Examples)

The same way that a book’s title is what first captures a reader’s attention, an email subject line is what lures recipients into opening and clicking an email. Your emails might have pretty good subject lines right now, but can you make them better and improve your email results?

BiblioCon ’21: Highlights of the Online Library Conference

What an event! On February 24-25, library staff, industry experts, and BiblioCommons gathered together (virtually, of course!) for BiblioCon ’21. The event was a fabulous way for public libraries to learn from one another about best practices, how to use BiblioCommons' tools effectively, and new services that are.