[WEB4LIB] RE: Branch academic library home pages?

[Peter C. Gorman]

Hello,

Our policy has been for the Library workstations in all 30+ libraries 
on campus to display the libraries' common home page 
(http://www.library.wisc.edu/), so users can walk into any library 
and see the same thing. However, we set a "localization" cookie on 
many library workstations, and a JavaScript uses it to place a link 
to the local library's site in the left column. You can try it out at 
http://www.library.wisc.edu/setELcookie.html

Martin Jenkins wrote:
>I am wondering how common it is for university library
>systems with branch libraries to have location-specific home
>pages established for the public terminals in those branch
>libraries. In other words, where a patron approaching a
>terminal in the Medical Library sees a different library
>home page from a patron using a terminal in the Music
>Library.

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Peter C. Gorman
Senior Technology Librarian
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Library Technology Group
pgorman at library.wisc.edu
(608) 265-5291

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