New TJLP Site

It's been an exciting couple of weeks for the Thomas Jefferson's Libraries Project at Jefferson Library. The Project has a new website home that recently went live on Monticello's server. This allows TJLP to grow and add content in new ways and generally become a richer experience for users. Until recently, TJLP database records were managed in the third-party content management system PubMan by dataformat.com. Database searches from the new site retrieve LibraryThing records, reflecting the recent efforts to migrate the Thomas Jefferson's Libraries Project database content there, which is largely what I've been contributing to at Jefferson Library. The new site helps explain the complexity of the Project to users, the reasons Jefferson Library is attempting to identify the books Thomas Jefferson owned in his personal libraries throughout his life, and various ways that users might navigate the site and LibraryThing in order to satisfy their information needs. The site will be growing as more content is added; likewise will the database continue to grow with records and be more useful to a variety of users. Read all about the Project.

Take a look around, and give us some feedback here. The folks at Jefferson Library are anxious to know what users think of the site!