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Médiathèque Départementale du Haut-Rhin
Submitted by Médiathèque dép... on Thu, 07/03/2008 - 02:47.
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
UNC Library System
Submitted by Leo Klein on Fri, 04/04/2008 - 09:00.
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.
IUPUI University Library
Submitted by Leo Klein on Tue, 03/11/2008 - 19:56.
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!
Franklin Park Public Library
Submitted by Leo Klein on Mon, 03/03/2008 - 01:31.
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.
Vancouver Public Library
Submitted by Leo Klein on Fri, 02/22/2008 - 12:01.
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]
Claremont Colleges Library Website
Submitted by Leo Klein on Tue, 01/15/2008 - 07:58.
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.
Robert W. Woodruff Library
Submitted by Leo Klein on Fri, 12/14/2007 - 20:49.
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.
University of Virginia Library Website
Submitted by Leo Klein on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 15:00.
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!
UIUC Website
Submitted by Leo Klein on Sat, 09/22/2007 - 10:20.
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.
Multnomah County Library Website
Submitted by Leo Klein on Tue, 09/11/2007 - 20:10.
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.


