Good Morning!
What are your favorite library websites? Post 1 or 2 of them here, along with (if you have time) the reasons that you like them. Please post by Monday so that I can take your list with me to share during my meetings in Maitland.
Thanks - Emily
GOA9: Progress Report
2 days ago
6 comments:
University of South Florida Libraries
www.lib.usf.edu
- User-friendly (particularly since most recent redesign)
Here are a few that I liked, with comments on the positive parts of the sites:
Univ. of CA, LA campus
http://www.library.ucla.edu/college/
Pretty basic, not very cluttered. I would like to see a separate section on online/distance students and maybe have a spot for them, explaining what is available for them to use (?)
Boston College Libraries
http://www.bc.edu/libraries/
Another nice, simple site. More info than U of CA example but you still do not have to scroll down to see the entire page. I like this better than Harvard’s (http://hcl.harvard.edu/), which to me seems rather daunting and cluttered/busy with the multiple colors and boxes.
Brooklyn College Library
http://library.brooklyn.cuny.edu/I like how the design takes your eyes across the entire page and the bullets are the main catagories.
Bowdoin College Library, Maine
http://library.bowdoin.edu/
I like this site because it is similar to our current look, but is a little more sleeker, with the main category boxes in the center of the page, so you are drawn in and then look outward at the information that is around the main core. The photo on the left does not distract and the button for online help would be a nice spot for ours, when we go to virtual reference.
Swathmore College
http://www.swarthmore.edu/x4593.xml
The only thing I really like on this page is the large buttons on the left for ‘Ask a Librarian’ and for checking and renewing books. I don’t think students realize that they can check their own records and perform renewals themselves on non-ILL materials.
I also like UCLA's website. I created an interlibrary loan copyright policy at William Mitchell, and I modeled if off of the UCLA policy: http://www2.library.ucla.edu/copyright/2133.cfm
I have heard that U of NC is also well done.
http://www.lib.unc.edu/
I especially like the separate"portals" by subject area with links to databases, suggstd resources, new acquistions, and faculty services at the University of Maine's website:
http://www.library.umaine.edu
The College of DuPage at www.cod.edu/library/
has an especially inviting front page with Library Events/News and a Features area with text messaging links. Also the databases ar arranged by category.
Babson College at www3.babson.edu/library
has a unique front page link to "companies" and "industries". I also like the format of th "How do I?" section.
The College Libraries Section of ACRL actually has a "College Library Website of the Month" page. All the libraries that have received recognition since 2005 are listed along w/ links to their webpages. I checked out several of the library pages, and they look like good choices. Take a look when you get the chance! Here's the link ... http://www.ala.org/ala/acrlbucket/cls/websiteofthemonth/index.cfm
The address for the ACRL website is pretty long... type it in with no spaces (obviously)
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrlbucket/cls/websiteofthe
month/index.cfm
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