Library Portals

Selected press articles

Covers & blur

Reviews

Digital music service

Co-operation & integration

CONTENT SYSTEMS

Library Automation

Indexing and searching

User Identification

Cataloguing

6 provinces (= all provinces + Brussels region)200+ libraries (= 2/3 of libraries)450+ service points11.290.079 items at the beginning of 2012

1 portal project: 2009 - 2012

I search local

I search in any library

We search in our region

Where do I find stuff?

We search the web

Basic strategy

“Outside in”Integrating as much library info as possible

+ press info, wikipedia, recommendations, journal articles, reviews, public domain full texts, tagging…

& linking to library online services

“Inside out”Bringing the library on web platforms: facebook, electronic learning environment, web sites of libraries and local communities

Strategy towards search engines (Google)

Usability: 3 types of pages on the web

Web page where you search, select, find- Librarians think : ‘the catalogue'- The rest of the world thinks : “Google”

Web pages where your search lands“a product detail page should be a combination of good content, semantic mark up, and thoughtful design that appeals to shoppers, is easy to manage, and indexes well” (E-commerce Developer)

Library portals: a page per author & a page per book

Service pages (transactions)- Order a book, renew your loan…- Listen to music (digital player), read (digital viewer)