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."

This is an encyclopedic compendium of articles about every aspect of Thomas Jefferson world: people, places, objects, events, activities, and ideas. Built on MediaWiki, only individuals authorized with edit privileges may create or change the content. Many information resources are linked to the articles, connecting to the Thomas Jefferson Portal research database and the Thomas Jefferson Digital Library. Additional links are provided to external web sites, allowing individuals to find individual letters, maps, or documents that exist in the digital Internet realm. Launched in July 2007, and now with 400 content articles, plans are in place to expand the TJ Wiki by at least ten fold.

A blog dedicated to the discussion of topics relating to the history of Sandusky and Erie County, Ohio; inspired by the collections of the Sandusky Library Archives Research Center and Follett House Museum. A service of the Sandusky Library Archives Research Center.

It's not important that libraries "lead the way" in technology -- so long as they adapt it eventually to their own needs. A great example is Bookspace.org by the esteemed Hennepin County Library.

It's a Reader's Advisory on steroids. It takes all the great lessons about social networking and books (read: Amazon, LibraryThing, etc.) and builds on them to produce its own unique site.

You can create your own account whether you've got a library card or not (!!!). You can create your own lists of favorite titles. You can comment on other people's posts.

On the surface, this is just like any number of commercial sites. But mixed in -- and what makes this site unique -- are all the events and services that a public library traditionally has to offer. This means reading clubs, special events, research tools -- the whole gamut.

Certainly this is a wonderful example for all those libraries lucky enough to be in a similar position.

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