The weblog of ANBPR(The National Association of Librarians and Public Libraries in Romania) Brasov Branch

The site looks organized and clean and includes a lot of content. The blogs for kids, teens and adults offers updated information with rss feed. The site makes the library's databases and special collections nicely visible.

Website of the public library in Figueres, Catalonia (Spain).
Information about its services and collections. Two blogs associated. It includes a special collection of 19th century photographs and a digitalised press collection.

Our site was recently designed with public use in mind.

It starts with a general hirearchy of tabs at the top with the services we provide. Featured programs and other upcoming programs are featured on the front page. Also a customer favorite is our rotating bookshelf with the New Items at the library. Each cover image provides a direct link to the item in the catalog, and is pulled from an RSS feed of new items added to our catalog.

The bottom footer is also similar to a drop down menu, which provides important (but not top level) information on all the pages of the our website.

Nelson Public Libraries website has been recently redesigned to provide easy and convenient access to all library related information and services - quick access widgets, RSS, event calendar, search Catalogue instant access, Teen and Kids sections etc. Library News blog highlights recent news, and calls for attention to library services. The website goal is to look clean and attractive, easy to access and fully functional,reflecting current library trends with aim to please wide spectrum of library users.

The team at Clinton-Macomb Public Library considered a variety of open-source technologies when designing their new site (launched June 1, 2009), but ultimately decided that those content management systems did not provide enough flexibility in interface design.

The in-house team coordinated a 9-month redesign that utilizes a variety of widgets (such as IM and Bookletters content), database programming, and RSS feeds to pipe new information into the site.

Using iframes, the team created a seamless transition from the main portion of the site to the online catalog, marrying the two together in look and feel.

Committed to utilizing usability research in their design, the team at Clinton-Macomb redesigned the information archtitecture of the site based on extensive card-sorting exercises with over 300 patrons. The result is a tabbed-navigation design based on the most common categories patrons expected to see on a library website. The team also conducted over 15 usability tests to confirm their interface design was executed well.

A very nice redesign of the Arlington Heights Memorial Library, IL website. An excellent use of Drupal without looking like an out of the box Drupal website. The drop down advanced search for the catalog is excellent and new to the library world. The large search box front and center is also a great idea, for library websites are usually just a portal to our content.

Kalamazoo (Michigan) Public Library's website has been recently redesigned and rearchitected to provide easy and fast access to information about library services, holdings, and events. Staff blogs help connect patrons with library staff, highlight recent events and timely news, and call attention to library services. Tightly integrated yet stylistically separate subsites are provided for select services, such as Kids, Tweens, Teens, a community reading program, nonprofit service center, local history, law library, childhood literacy initiative, and more. Typical of the comments received from patrons so far include "clean," "easy to use," "easy to read," and "really impressive."

Complete redesign which showcases Web 2.0 functionalities and customizable content, engages patron participation, features an easy to use navigational structure with prominent displays of library events, materials and resources, and offers a wealth of new content.

A Drupal-based site focusing on simplicity. Features a keyword Catalog search prominently, as well as a very neat Google-Talk-based chat reference system.