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."

The new OPL website launched on 15 Jul 08. This is the first library to go live with BiblioCommons as the catalog. BiblioCommons allows complete integration of the catalog into the website, no more "click here for catalog" links.

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The Danbury Library catalog has mashed with the social networking tools of Library Thing for Libraries.

If you look for a book & want to find "more like this" (more Irish fiction, say, like Maeve Binchy's recent Whitethorn Woods), you could, of course, use the Library of Congress Subject Heading (LCSH) Highway bypasses -- Ireland -- Fiction. But really, how many books are there with that subject heading in the catalog? (answer: in Danbury's catalog, 3 -- all different editions of the same book). The LibraryThing-ified Danbury catalog record for Whitethorn Woods shows some neat tags leading you to related books. It also leasds you to "Similar Books:" a few others by Maeve Binchy, plus some you might not have considered. One cool thing is that it only shows similar books that are in the Danbury catalog -- so you don't get recommendations of books you can't borrow from Danbury.