Portals & The Future of Library Services

Delivering Individualized Library Content: Portals & The Future of Library Web Sites Tom Ipri Media Services Librarian Connelly Library Philadelphia, PA [email_address]

La Salle University
Founded in 1863
Philadelphia, PA
6200 students
Main campus and 2 satellites

Connelly Library
9 Full time librarians
1 Part-time at satellite
No dedicated Web person
No dedicated Portal person

mylasalle
Luminis/Campus Pipeline
University Wide
Live Summer 2003
Cradle to Grave

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

Brief History
On development committee
Ensure library presence
Library “tab”

Original Look

First Version
Basically a “dumbed-down” version of home page
Not taking advantage of potential
Director of Portal Communications hired 2004

Second Version
This time it’s personal
Campus and Targeted Announcements
myConnellyLibrary
myResources

myResources
Library subject guide +
Resources from departments
Forms, procedures, job ads, etc.
Education, Social Work, Grad Psych, SLH

New Developments
Assignment Calculator
Use of RSS feeds
Federated search
WebPac Pro

RSS Feeds
Simple XML code
Library news
Databases
Electronic Journals
Library Links
Basically anything

Snags
Director of Portal Communication leaves
Change of priorities
Uncertain future
New Web team
PHP/MySQL
Code to read database output

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

What’s Next
Federated search
SSO for databases
WebPAC Pro
Circulation info in channel
More use of CSS

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

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

Impact
Rethinking library services with the portal in mind
Portal is designed to be dynamic and customizable
Bring information closer to user
Portal roles

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?

Delivering Individualized Library Content: Portals & The Future of Library Web Sites Tom Ipri Media Services Librarian Connelly Library Philadelphia, PA [email_address]

Portals & The Future of Library Services

by Tom Ipri on May 12, 2008

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