MyLibrary Revisited

[Debra Shapiro]

My organization -- UW-Madison SLIS Continuing Education -- hosted an 
SLA satellite videoconference on information portals on April 27th.
http://www.sla.org/sla-learning/portals.html

The handouts I got for this event claim that there will be more 
information about customizable portals at the above URL after May 
19th; currently there is just the (outdated) announcement of the 
event and how you, yes, you, can host it...

Anyhow, I would venture that everything the 3 speakers at the 
videoconference spoke about was geared towards creating customizable 
portals for the special library market: they were Susan Klopper from 
Arthur Anderson, Howard McQueen of McQueen Consulting, and Steve 
Arnold of Arnold IT.

I don't have a handy example of Susan Klopper's work, (or Steve 
Arnold) but you can see McQueen consulting at:
http://www.mcq.com/
under services they have a section about their portal design work.
http://www.mcq.com/Services/servicesDetail.asp?service=portals

I would also venture that the customizable portal needs of public and 
school libraries are very different, and I don't see why NCSU's 
MyLibrary would not work just dandy for a school or a school 
system....after all, school libraries have the same type of known 
clientel that an academic library does.

regards,
Debra.

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>Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 12:43:16 -0700
>From: "Gary C. Bortel" <gbortel at ocosta.k12.wa.us>
>To: web4lib at webjunction.org
>Subject: MyLibrary Revisited
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>In digging about for information on personalized, customizable, "portal
>pages" developed by libraries for their patrons (e.g. MyLibrary/NCSU, My
>Gateway/UW, MyLibrary/Cornell, etc.), it seems all have been developed
>and hosted by academic institutions. Does anyone know of similar
>projects being developed by and for special, public or school libraries?
>While the source code for NCSU's MyLibrary is now available, it doesn't
>meet all the needs of these other communities. And as Wilfred Drew noted
>earlier, it's not "...based on the Windows NT environment" in which many
>of us work.
>
>Any information would be helpful.
>
>gcb
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Gary C. Bortel
>Librarian
>Ocosta School District
>2580 Montesano St. S.
>Westport, WA 98595
>(360)268-9123

dshapiro at slis.wisc.edu
Debra Shapiro
Continuing Education Services
UW-Madison SLIS
4282 Helen C. White Hall
Madison WI 53706
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FAX 608 263 4849