web-sightings

UX

The narrative website: from signposting to storytelling

As we move from a collections-based to a relational library, storytelling becomes very important. One trend is the emergence of a stronger narrative or storytelling emphasis on websites, which helps position the library, promote its services, and address specific interests.

Lorcan Jul 10, 2023 16 min read

UX

Two things prompted by a new website: space as a service and full library discovery

Drawn by a Tweet I looked at Stanford's very nice new library website just now. I only spent

Lorcan Aug 31, 2012 3 min read

UX

A web-sighting: NCSU Libraries redux

Susan Rector from NCSU Libraries left a nice note on my entry about library websites [https://news.lib.ncsu.edu/

Lorcan Aug 27, 2010 1 min read

Books

A web-siting at Yale: other editions and xISBN

I was looking at the Vufind implementation of the Yale University Library catalog – yufind [https://yufind.library.yale.edu/yufind/

Lorcan May 30, 2010 1 min read

Institutions

A web-siting at The University of Rochester

I was struck by several things on the home page [https://www.library.rochester.edu/] of The River Campus Libraries

Lorcan Mar 28, 2010 1 min read

UX

The library website: a unified service?

I mentioned the reworked University of Michigan Libraries website a while ago. Although it is still a layer over various

Lorcan Sep 13, 2009 3 min read

Institutions

A web-siting at the University of Michigan

I came across the University of Michigan beta library website [https://beta.lib.umich.edu/] the other day. I thought

Lorcan Jul 16, 2009 1 min read

Institutions

U Winnipeg website

The University of Winnipeg Library and Information Services website [https://cybrary.uwinnipeg.ca/] is one of the most engaging I

Lorcan Dec 23, 2004 1 min read

Institutions

MIT libraries website

I like the fresh new look of the MIT Libraries [https://libraries.mit.edu/] website. The new look has not

Lorcan Jun 18, 2004

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