While we have officially made the switch to the new website, it continues to be a work in progress. You will notice that some content from the old site has not been migrated over and some pages are still under construction. We prioritized the migration of content based on statistics so the pages and information […]
Starting July 14th, we began the process of migrating our website users to our new website. The new website has been in beta since December 2009. Since then over 100,000 users have visited and tried the new site. Hundreds of customers and staff have provided comments about the new search and changes. You can review […]
Starting today, 20% of users who visit the iBistro catalogue (http://catalogue.torontopubliclibrary.ca) will be redirected to a web page introducing the new website. At the same time, a cookie will be added to their computer which declares them a new site user. This means that the next time they visit the main website or the catalogue, […]
Many thanks to all who have sent us your comments about the beta version of the new Toronto Public Library website. The site has been available to the public for a few months now, and we continue to get valuable feedback every day. Here’s an update on what we’ve been doing and what’s next. What We’ve […]
Thank you so much for all your continued feedback. The public beta has been available to all library customers through the web catalogue since early March. More recently it was linked to the TPL homepage. We have had over 21,000 different visitors to the beta site and over 200 comments through various channels (Web Team […]
For the past several weeks, the beta website has been in the hands of a limited group of our customers. You can see their comments and feedback through the Web Team blog. And a big thank you to all staff who have continued to provide valuable feedback. If you haven’t visited the beta site in […]
Thanks to all of you who provided feedback. We have been working on implementing many of your suggestions and have completed some of the intended functionality. Here are some highlights of what you can now see: Advanced Search is changed and working Item detail page has been modified, In Library is bolded, we removed the […]
We've been getting feedback from staff asking about search relevancy in our new website. Here's some background on how it works. The search engine we use with our new website has a relevancy tool which we can use to affect the relevancy of keyword search results. Relevancy tuning is an ongoing process and can be […]
Starting today, we're asking staff to try out and provide feedback on a beta version of torontopubliclibrary.ca. In order to keep you informed and to get your ongoing feedback, we’ve created this staff blog. For an overview of the site, project timelines, and other relevant info, see the 'Key Information' links on this blog. The […]
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