library website content management system layer and SharePoint

Thu Jul 17 15:44:29 EDT 2014

It is possible, but not recommended. We are about to launch our new library website in SharePoint in late August, but the path here was overly-complicated due to the need for some very deep development work of SharePoint by campus IT. I think anyone versed in SharePoint will be pretty surprised to see what our developers were able to pull off, including responsive design and integration with 3rd party APIs. But honestly, it took them a lot of time and effort and with the many other CMS out there (and in this day and age, you should be using a CMS), there were many other options, including .Net CMS options with ready-made modules, that we could have gone with and saved a lot of development time on. But SharePoint was the chosen campus solution, and the team did a pretty amazing job pulling it off…but it’s still SharePoint, so you’ll face redundant workflows and browser compatibility issues for your content editors.

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M Ryan Hess
Web Services Coordinator
DePaul University
JTR 303-C, DePaul University, Lincoln Park Campus, 2350 N Kenmore Ave., Chicago IL 60614
office: 773-325-7829 | cell:  650-224-7279 |  fax: 773-325-2297  | mhess8 at depaul.edu<https://outlook.depaul.edu/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx>

On Jul 17, 2014, at 1:40 PM, Bellmore, Eric N. <bellm1en at CMICH.EDU<mailto:bellm1en at CMICH.EDU>> wrote:

We use SP for our student portal already. You need to be a .Net developer if you want to build anything functional to be used in SharePoint OR, iFrame in your stuff. SharePoint and Content Management don’t really go together. I’ve never seen a content management solution that works well with SharePoint. (I was the SharePoint admin for our campus for a number of years.)

-eric

Eric Bellmore, GWAPT
Manager of Web Services
Central Michigan University Libraries
http://library.cmich.edu<http://library.cmich.edu/>
989.774.3946

From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf OfShannon E. Fox
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2014 2:32 PM
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Apparently SharePoint is being used by campus IT to develop a one-stop-shop for students to manage various aspects of their courses, etc. and my boss and library director wants the library to be included in some way that is most effective in promoting services and resources for students, hopefully even at a granular subject-level, if at all possible. I really know very little about SharePoint and what can be done; he asked me yesterday to begin researching this. At the same time, we are ready to move forward with creating a new, modern, dynamic website. I have been using DreamWeaver to create and maintain our library website for the past seven years. So we are wondering if there is any CMS out there that is mainly used for the library website, but in some way connects or communicates with SharePoint when it is used as a campus portal.

Thanks so much for all feedback thus far!
Shannon

From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf OfHenry, Laura
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2014 1:00 PM
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+1

What are you trying to accomplish by using SharePoint with your website? Maybe there’s another, better way.

Laura C. Henry, MLS
Assistant Systems Librarian
Beaufort County Library
311 Scott Street, Beaufort, SC 29902
Phone 843.255.6444   lhenry at bcgov.net<mailto:lhenry at bcgov.net>
www.beaufortcountylibrary.org<http://www.beaufortcountylibrary.org/>
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From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of John Chadwick
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2014 1:57 PM
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Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] library website content management system layer and SharePoint

Shannon,
I have had direct experience with trying to use SharePoint as a CMS. Save yourself a lot of aggravation and avoid doing so it at all possible.
John Chadwick
drjohnnm at gmail.com<mailto:drjohnnm at gmail.com>

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Shannon E. Fox <sfox at austincollege.edu<mailto:sfox at austincollege.edu>> wrote:
Has anyone developed a library website/content management system that works with SharePoint? Or know of such capability and good information sources about SharePoint working in conjunction with websites?

Thanks.

Shannon Fox-Teichmann
Coordinator of Electronic Services & Collections

900 N. Grand Avenue, Suite 6L
Sherman, TX  75090-4400
Phone 903.813.2559<tel:903.813.2559> Cell 903.267.2424<tel:903.267.2424>
http://abell.austincollege.edu/abell
sfox at austincollege.edu<mailto:sfox at austincollege.edu>

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