1. WEBSITE REDESIGN WOBURN PUBLIC LIBRARY

2. THE BEGINNING OF TIME (REALLY 2005)

3. 2009

4. ISSUES WITH 2009 SITE Not intuitive Difficult to manage Outdated design

5. RESEARCH CMSs Stay with WordPress? Free CMS? Proprietary CMS? Designer Staff? Professional website designer? Evaluation Our current site Sites we admire Work of local website design firms

6. EVALUATION Library Site FormFunctionFeatures Designer

7. DRAFTING A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Information from Site Evaluations What we admired Examples from other Libraries What we did not think about Input from staff What unique needs we have

8. WEBSITE DESIGN FIRM DECISION Contacted three firms (required for work over 5K but under 25K) Received and reviewed three proposals Paper proposal Meeting with committee Weighed expertise, CMS, and price Decided on Stirling Technologies Written recommendation sent to Board of Trustees Informed Stirling and other firms of decision

9. CONTRACT Library Stirling Technologies: Own Contract City Solicitor: Language Review Purchasing Agent: City Contract Statement of Work Project Plan

10. IN-HOUSE CONTENT WORK While waiting for the contract to be finalized, we: Archived materials on our current site Discussed pages to populate our new site Drafted content to fill those pages

11. TIMELINE September 2013- Research October 2013: Committee formation November 2013: RFP December 2013: Recommendation of firm made January/February 2013: Board decision & contract negotiation March 6- Design Meeting March 17- First wave of content due April 3- First revision meeting April 17- Second wave of content due May 12- Second revision meeting May 19- Domain transfer May 22- Launch meeting May 23- Site launch

12. OUR SITE

13. MLA PR AWARDS 2015