Week 10 - Inspector Gadget

I added the Socrates 'Quote of the Day" which was a gadget provided by Blogger. I like the idea of reading quotes by Socrates but I don't like the fact it doesn't fit neatly in the sidebar of the blog - so I might change it if/when I find something I like better. I tried to get an online-radio widget from yourminis but for some reason it hasn't arrived on my blog even though it said it was "sent".

As a library I guess we could use widgets a light information/entertainment/distraction for people when they visit our website. For example, we could have the local weather forecast or some funny quotes. This might make people have a more pleasant experience when they visit our website.

However, it would be very cool if we could get some custom-made widgets for our website that promoted our library and our stock. I imagine we could have "book of the day" or "DVD of the day" where the widget displays a book/DVD cover along with it's title, author etc. It would, of course, be a book/DVD that we stock in our library. We could encourage people to request the item by having some text saying something like Request this here. What would then be even cooler would be if people could - with one click - be taken to our library catalogue to request the book/DVD of the day.

It wouldn't just have to be book covers. We could have daily quotes from classic literature or great movies in our widget. We would, once again, stock in our library the items from which these quotes come and make it possible for people to request them.

That's my inspector gadget ideas anyway!