Case Study

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Case Study Suffolk County Council Simon
Ransome ISIS Internet
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• First connected to the Internet November 1995

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• First connected to the Internet November 1995
• Launched formally by Members February 1996

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• First connected to the Internet November 1995
• Launched formally by Members February 1996
• Site contained less than 200 pages and registered
  page impressions measured in tens

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Page impressions generated on the SCC Web Site
since 1997 (averages)
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This year so far...
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• Main SCC site now contains around 7,000 pages
• Over 2 million page-impressions so far in 1999
• An additional 6 other corporate sites including
  LibCat, Infolink, TraveLine, The Suffolk Site,
  ISO Games 1999.
• Hosting for a number of other Suffolk
  authorities, regional organisations and European
  partnerships

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How is this all managed?
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How is this all managed?

• WWW Editorial Board (WEB) - representatives from
  all departments
• WEB develops standards technical quality, speed
  of access, house style, information quality,
  currency, etc and suggests wider strategic
  direction
• ISIS Internet create most content, including
  design and graphics, code scripts, manage
  infrastructure and run web servers.

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Role of Libraries and Heritage

• Quality control
• Monitoring currency
• Information management
• Monitoring visitors book, Graffiti wall and
  webmaster emails
• Other enquiries

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The Graffiti Wall
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Libraries and Heritage
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Libraries and Heritage

• Launched shortly after the main site
• Contains nearly 400 conventional pages (not
  counting 2 million in LibCat and over 8,000 in
  InfoLink)
• Around 1,500 pages per day looked at by the
  public (including those on the 150 PCs available
  through Suffolks libraries)
• Full contact details for main LH staff

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Heritage - the Suffolk Record Office
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The Suffolk Record Office

• Major press coverage
• 1,500 database requests in half a day

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Interactivity - Libraries Direct
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Have Your Say
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• Cyber Library - Collection Development
• 600,000 investment
• All 44 libraries and Record Offices across
  Suffolk now connected via the corporate Internet
  connection
• 150 PCs available free of charge
• Specific CyberLibrary content created

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Cyber Library home page
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Cyber Library Childrens home page
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Cyber Library Childrens Book Zone
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• Future Developments
• More interactivity
• Co-East - a regional library catalogue
  (www.co-east.net/demo.html)
• e-commerce
• Internet TV
• Parishes/Portals - grass-roots development

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Questions?
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The End