[Web4lib] interlibrary cooperation - web content

[HAZEL Margaret E]

Are you talking about lists of links, or creating original content, Ray?

We are heading in the direction of not making very many lists of links,
or creating a lot of original content, unless it is specifically
relevant to our locality, and is not being done by someone else.

We do provide short lists of links to popular search engines,  free
email services, and basic web & email tutorials, however, for folks
using our in-house internet access PCs.

We just don't have the resources to do more, much as (some of) the
librarians would like to do so.  We refer, professionally, and are very
selective in what we add.  We have a collection of 500,000 items, and a
circ of over 2.5 million a year, 130 FTE.

Our current discussions are around creating a virtual branch out of our
website.  But that will require a reallocation of staffing resources.

-Margaret

Margaret E. Hazel
Principal Librarian, Technology
Eugene Public Library
Eugene, OR


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Dehghan
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 2:01 PM
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Subject: [Web4lib] interlibrary cooperation - web content

Colleagues,

   Apologies for cross postings.

   I'm working on creating content for our website - links with
annotations etc.  I'm curious to hear of any experiences of librarians
sharing actual content - the annotations themselves and the way they are
organized.

   This might lend itself to more efficiency and less reinventing of the
wheel.  This might be similar to the open source movement, which is
facilitating the sharing of technology - web design etc.

   I'm thinking that librarians within consortia and other library
systems may tend to do this more often.

Thanks very much.

Raumin "Ray" Dehghan
Adult Services Librarian
West Chicago Public Library
West Chicago, Illinois
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