REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL For Baldwin Public Library Website Redesign
The Baldwin Public Library is a sub-unit of the City of Birmingham, a tax-exempt municipal
government located in Oakland County. The Library provides services to approximately 30,000
residents. The Librarys website was established to provide public access to information about library
collections and information and the activities offered by the Library and to communicate information
about the Library. In an effort to improve these services to users, the Library would like to enhance its
website to a web 2.0 standard as an information portal by including additional web services, simple
navigation, and a content management system and to utilize advances in technology as outlined in the
specifications section of this document. The purpose of the Request for Proposal (RFP) is to provide
the Library with an improved web site that will:
be intuitive for residents and users to navigate
be focused, clean and simple
improve service by acting as an attractive introduction to the SIRSI, the librarys ILS,
intergrated library system and content modules and Evanced, the calendar product and other
library information products including the subscription databases.
utilize basic CSS styling updates in order to maintain a unique and consistent look
incorporate a robust, open source content management module capable of being updated by
library staff utilizing standard word processing techniques
offer web 2.0 enabled features i.e. blogs, wikis and widgets and Google appliances.
Capable of expansion without redesign being required
