Plainfield Public Library

A posting on the LIS News blog caught my eye. It was about Plainfield Library offering its users the ability to IM and text librarians with their questions. I followed the link to the newspaper article and then a link to their new website I was very impressed with the website and the services they offered and said as much in an email I sent to our library managers -

I don't know if any changes to our website are planned but I happened across a library website that I think is really great - http://www.plainfield.lib.il.us/index.asp. It has a nice clean look, uncluttered but with lots of information on it and it seems very user-friendly. I am also impressed by the range of services they offer - IM and text reference queries, library blogs, Book-a-Librarian (http://www.plainfield.lib.il.us/library-info/services.htm), book discussion kits . . And this in a town with a population of 23,532 whereas we have 103,632. Food for thought?