News, NYPL TV: The New NYPL.org

Where did our Book Flix go????? I need a Book Flix !!!

"Make-over." "Few links?" How am i supposed to discover, connect and get inspired by such a poor redesign!

"Easier for me to use?" Who are you kidding? This 'makeup', make-over is a joke: very little substance.

Hey Library,

I'm a design student and I would like to ask a question: What is this website for? What was the main goal for updating the website?

Nobody studied information design there? Those promos taking up all the space are already getting old!

How about a simple box for search upfront? Like the British Library: http://www.bl.uk/ -not small, in a corner. And, do you know that I need to type my search terms twice? Why? I enter my search term, click the arrow, and end up at a new, nearly empty screen.... with a blank search field. And then I have to type my search term again!

If proper 'user testing' was done, you would have found out that the most 'clicks' on the home page are on those three huge banners - 'discover' 'connect' 'get inspired'. But they're not even buttons! Get a qualified web designer!

It's like bad student work.

The New York Public Library's newly redesigned website is not user-friendly at all.

They're wasting almost 80% of the home page space for only 4 links for their own 'promotion' reasons. Why do they think that I want to go there? It's not guided, it's forced.

Definitely not user-friendly.

Drupal? Who cares! What, so... Library workers are commenting here trying to sell us on that? What year are you living in?It's just blog software! Using 'Open-Source'... that just means it's free! - lol

Your Getting Oriented page, (which I could not find easily!) is NOT linked to your new Getting Oriented IMAGE that says, 'Getting Oriented >'. The Getting Oriented IMAGE is linked to a poor attempt at an orientation video instead. The real Getting Oriented page is nowhere in sight! Are idiots designing this? The Getting Oriented page is buried behind Using the Library!

"Chat with a librarian from ANY page on the site!???" I guess you've not visited the CATALOG search page or the MY ACCOUNT page! Those are probably a reasonable place where I might need to CHAT.

This new website is an appropriate amateur disaster that matches the new logo debacle. The USERS where completely left out of this design! Hire a proper firm or hire User-Interface Designers that know what they are doing!

The only thing 'more' I found out about the library from this video guide and the new site is what failed management they must have if no one competent was overseeing such an important project for the people of New York City.

Complete and abject failure. Money NOT well spent!

Could there be a link to On-Lion for Kids somewhere I am missing? I had to search and then I just had to type in kids.nypl.org. Is there another way to get to it that's easy for kids (and grownups) to see?

Please consider adding a "can't miss it" link to your new homepage for the following website: HomeworkNYC.org.

I currently reside outside the U.S. and I access the nypl.org site a few times per week. Through your website, I access the homeworkNYC site. This website features an excellent dictionary, which gives my English Language Learner (ELL) students an opportunity to see and hear words.

Your old homepage featured a HomeworkNYC.org link on the right side of the screen.

I need to add that I also rely heavily on your website - I download lots of e-books. I use e-content to teach my classes.
Please consider adding an e-materials link to your homepage. (Currently users must click "Find Books..." to reach the e-materials section of the website.)

Nicole C.

I'd just like to add my despair at the loss of BookFlix! Please tell me it will be available again in the next couple weeks! I am in a special education school library and my students with autism LOVE it. I don't know how long we can go without hearing the Chicka-Chicka-Boom-Boom song :)

Even considering that it is hard to get used to a new format, this website change is not for the better. It looks good, but it is not user friendly or direct. Perhaps it works better for the It department but for users it is not as easy or useful or quick as your earlier website. I will check back to see if there are any improvements. And I will try to spend some more time to learn it, but the much of the purpose is lost if I have to spend tooo much time figuring out how to get the info I need.

I, too, find the new site hard to understand, but I assume that is just because it is new.
However, when I want to request a book (which I assume is "Place Hold") I find that sometimes the title I want says "USE IN LIBRARY" but it does not say "Unavailable for Requests", and instead says it is available. This is very confusing and indirect.

Some others don't even say "USE IN LIBRARY" but that is implied, I guess, by them being listed as in the REFERENCE section. For a non-librarian or someone unfamiliar with library jargon, this is problematic.

The old site was more clear and I suggest that you borrow those terms used with success instead of creating such unclear and conflicting new ones.

Please also tell me where a full set of instructions for reserving books can be found.

Thanks.

Hi there,

I'm a teacher who used to use Bookflix with my kids.
Now when I click the link, I'm redirected to http://auth.grolier.com/invalidlogin.html.

I hope this is fixed soon.

Thanks.

how do we reserve something????????not like we used to that's for sure

How do you save a search?

The "Locations and Hours" page used to be incredibly useful for seeing all branch hours in one glance. It's a real shame you eliminated this feature with the new site.

Now one has to launch and load the PDF versions, which take a while to load, and are more cumbersome to read as their formatting is less clear and they also include details about every division within the library. The old page (which I had bookmarked) told me instantly which libraries are open late tonight, even highlighting the current day's hours.

But now you have Javascript-only navigation, so we can't even use basic functions of the site without enabling scripts that slow down all but the most recent models of computer, while the new Google Map resource drainer further slows our computers down.

Please, support basic and old browsers, and keep more information on regular HTML pages so we can get information quickly again, like we could prior to 2010! The library is supposed to be for everyone.

New site looks great. Are you using Drupal?

I simply want to find the location and telephone number of a library..no links

I simply want to reserve a book..no links

what idiot designed this?
Obviously someone with inferior schooling..Are you really telling people what a library is for?
I could go on..it is one more reflection of the digression of our education syste,

Hello,

I am a teacher and used to use the Tumblebooks all the time! It was free and now it looks as though it's no longer available without paying for a subscription. Does anyone see how I can access it for free or is it true that it is no longer available for free?

What a wonderful change! Thank you so much!

Fantastic !!! Wonderful !!!