Site de la Médiathèque Départementale du Haut-Rhin, présentation de ses activités :

• tournées de prêt direct,
• animations culturelles saisonnières,
• formations,
• consultation du catalogue,
• des prêts et des réservations,
• Coups de coeur des bibliothécaires,
• Bibliographies thématiques

Nice clean site. Puts what you need at your finger-tips in a well-ordered way. See the E-Research Tools or Ask-Us Page for an examples. The initial search box that greets you on the home page is also a good example.

On the con-side, the help and general info pages aren't that inspired.

Extremely well-done library website done in Drupal. This together with FSU are probably my two most favorite library sites using Drupal at the moment.

The site's database page is almost a reenactment in the flesh of my screencast "Creating a Library Database Page Using Drupal". The SFX integration for journals looks interesting.

On their 'Ask-a-Librarian' Page they have three Meebo widgets -- interesting approach.

Visually the site and clean and extremely well done. No blog-look here. I also like flexible widths of the layout.

All-in-all a very good job!

Nice redesign of the Franklin Park Public Library using Drupal as the content management system.

The site makes use of a number of helpful features that are sure to be of major use to patrons including the "Meebo" widget for Chat Reference, the Google Calendar and really neat Google Translator.

Nice if somewhat plain redesign of the Vancouver Public Library site. On the plus side, the bottom navigation is extensive and follows the current pattern on many well-designed sites in this respect.

Also, you can set any library branch as your 'home branch' at which point it appears on the home page. Nice.

On the not-so-plus side, the Calendar is kind of clunky and integration of reading lists is a bit better on other sites.

[h/t aaron]

Wonderfully designed, extremely pleasing looking website from Claremont College. Again all the usual suspects of a modern academic website are there: news, 'ask us', an events calendar, plus links to databases and other online resources.

Everything is well laid out and visually appealing -- event the Staff Directory.

The Robert W. Woodruff Library is the main library of Emory University (Atlanta, GA). The site is well designed and extremely good looking. It's got everything there: news, calendar, links to databases, etc. In a sense, this is the direction of all academic library websites (at least the lucky ones). And yet, I'm left wondering if the design is a bit too reticent and restrained and whether we as academics are missing out on "suggest a resource" and "most popular items" that would be the first things we'd see on a commercial site.

The site could also use a "Help" option (yes, I know, "Ask a question"...)

So visually I think it works. It just needs to be a bit more "courageous" in its implementation.

Whoever did the design work on this ought to be congratulated! Really nice looking site. Even the 2nd Tier pages like the Database and Contacts pages are well laid out. There's the (by now) normal multi-search box at the top. For chat on their Ask A Librarian Page, they're using Meebo.

All-in-all a nice job!

New site redesign from U. of I. at UC. The organization is simple enough and you can tell that they spent a lot of time making it easy to search for items.

The use of Ajax on the main page to go from one search option to another is particularly effective.

Graphically, the site is about average. The 2nd tier pages need a better layout (the content just looks thrown together).

Also, linking back to the Library's home page from 2nd tier pages and browsing databases by subject still need work.

Nice clean design. The catalog is well integrated with the site. Perhaps not as automated as other examples (calendar?, book lists?) but a good example nonetheless.