redesign the library web site as a set of network services

The last three weeks I’ve been thinking a great deal about the role of my department in fulfilling the Libraries mission and where the department needs to go in the next 3 years. Part of getting where we want to go has been this whole site redesign process. But not in the way most of the library thinks.

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Long term I’d like a site which has a series of web services that can be exploited by my developers but also my the university web developers and who knows who else.

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For faculty and grad students who want to do known item searching in our catalog, maybe something like LibX is the way to go. Or maybe allowing users to create their own search interface to a set of particular resources that they can embed in their browsers search bar or on their desktop as a search widget.

Ultimately, I feel like it is these kinds of services that will make of break a library’s virtual presence not the library website.

Library Web Chic - The future of Web Services isn’t the Library website - September 16, 2007

Err, ditto.

Previously:
July 16, 2007  Library Journal netConnect - Web Services and the Social Catalogue