Help

Website Organization

The current layout of each webpage is an alphabetical list of documents and links.

We are setting up a survey for beta testing, which should be available sometime in March 2009.  Until then, please send comments, suggestions, or questions to the following email: datacoordinator@jacksondata.org or phone 517.788.4087 and ask for Tessa.

Website Searching

The Jackson County Data Network is a Linux-based Drupal template, and, because of these open-source systems, the network will be able to offer federated searching.  This means that, when complete, users will be able search by terms and find results that are: in the title of the data, in the body of the data, and otherwise linked to a document.

Website Formats

Most documents from local sources will be converted to pdf (Adobe Acrobat) format.  Click here for a free download of Adobe Reader. Other data will be accessible via Internet links.

Further Help

If there are further questions or needs, please contact us via one of the following methods:

• email at datacoordinator@jacksondata.org;
• phone at 517.788.4087 and ask for Tessa;
• IM on the home page of the website, during available hours;
• come in to the Help Desk for a face-to-face consultation during available hours. The Help Desk is located in the Reference Room at the Carnegie Library of The Jackson District Library system.  The address is 244 W. Michigan Ave. Appointments are also available for other times than the usual hours of operation.

Thank you for your patience during this start-up period.  We welcome your feedback!

 Grand Opening, January 2009: l to r, Elaine Piper (Jackson District Library Public Services), Debby Sears (JDL Reference Coordinator), Kathy Schoening (JDL IT), Donna Smith (JDL Marketing), Tessa Eger (Data Coordinator for the Jackson County Data Network).