Portals & The Future of Library Services

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    1. Delivering Individualized Library Content: Portals & The Future of Library Web Sites Tom Ipri Media Services Librarian Connelly Library Philadelphia, PA [email_address]
    2. La Salle University
      • Founded in 1863
      • Philadelphia, PA
      • 6200 students
      • Main campus and 2 satellites
    3. Connelly Library
      • 9 Full time librarians
      • 1 Part-time at satellite
      • No dedicated Web person
      • No dedicated Portal person
    4. mylasalle
      • Luminis/Campus Pipeline
      • University Wide
      • Live Summer 2003
      • Cradle to Grave
    5. Why Library Services in mylasalle?
      • The largest source of information on campus
      • Best opportunity to segment information from a vast collection and direct it to specific populations
      • Only way to get email
      • Registration, housing, grades
    6. Brief History
      • On development committee
      • Ensure library presence
      • Library “tab”
    7. Original Look
    8. First Version
      • Basically a “dumbed-down” version of home page
      • Not taking advantage of potential
      • Director of Portal Communications hired 2004
    9. Second Version
      • This time it’s personal
      • Campus and Targeted Announcements
      • myConnellyLibrary
      • myResources
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    16. myResources
      • Library subject guide +
      • Resources from departments
        • Forms, procedures, job ads, etc.
      • Education, Social Work, Grad Psych, SLH
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    18. New Developments
      • Assignment Calculator
      • Use of RSS feeds
      • Federated search
      • WebPac Pro
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    20. RSS Feeds
      • Simple XML code
      • Library news
      • Databases
      • Electronic Journals
      • Library Links
      • Basically anything
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    25. Snags
      • Director of Portal Communication leaves
        • Change of priorities
        • Uncertain future
      • New Web team
        • PHP/MySQL
        • Code to read database output
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    28. Back on Track
      • A lot of bits and pieces
        • Adding hand-coded & RSS channels
        • Converting database info to feeds
      • Can be aggregated on one “Tab”
      • Tab – channels – tab
      • Marketing
      • Training
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    31. What’s Next
      • Federated search
      • SSO for databases
      • WebPAC Pro
        • Circulation info in channel
      • More use of CSS
    32. Is it a mash-up?
      • Darlene Fichter
        • Web site or web application that uses context from one or more sources to create a completely new service
        • Building blocks
    33. Portals and Library 2.0
      • Paul Miller
        • Push the library everywhere
        • Disaggregate library systems
        • Liberate the data
        • Get the data to the user, not the user to the data
    34. Impact
      • Rethinking library services with the portal in mind
      • Portal is designed to be dynamic and customizable
      • Bring information closer to user
      • Portal roles
    35. Impact
      • Not a huge entity parsed into smaller bits
      • But smaller bits that are greater than the whole
      • Don’t add up to one thing, but different things for different people
      • Future of library web sites?
    36. Delivering Individualized Library Content: Portals & The Future of Library Web Sites Tom Ipri Media Services Librarian Connelly Library Philadelphia, PA [email_address]

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