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Portals in Libraries Symposium: Current State of Portals in Libraries. Robert H. McDonald Assistant Director of Libraries for Technology Florida State University [email protected]. June 26, 2004 Orlando, FL - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Portals in Libraries Symposium:
Current State of Portals in Libraries
Robert H. McDonaldAssistant Director of Libraries for Technology
Florida State [email protected]
June 26, 2004
Orlando, FL
online at: http://www.rmcdonald.info/presentations/portal2004
Current State of Portals
Agenda: Environmental Scan
Portals in Libraries2
Portals in Higher Education3
Overview1
Summary4
Questions5
Overview
• Portals in Libraries– Higher Education – Accenture Survey
Definition• Gateway that provides a single point of
entry to information and tools.• Web-based aggregation point.• Targeted User Groups.• My “homepage” or “library”• Easy to use.• Accessible from anywhere anytime.
Overview
• Portals in Libraries– Higher Education
• Information Channel within a University Portal
• Stand Alone Customizable/Personal EResource Portal
• Set of personalized Web Services Provided by a Library to interact with any or all of the above.
Agenda: Environmental Scan
Portals in Libraries2
Portals in Higher Education3
Overview1
Summary4
Questions5
Library Portal Information
Channels
Customizable Library EResources/Services
EJournal Lists, New Book Lists, Indexing and Fulltext Database Links, Book Renewal
Course Management Integration
Integration of specific Eresources/Services with Course Management Systems ex. WebCt,
Blackboard, Desire2Learn
MetaSearch Services
This can be tied to a MetaSearch Service that includes relevance ranking and de-duping or can be
a drop down of web based search services.
University Web Services
Web Services tied to course registration, financial services, documents on demand or extracurricular
associations such as sports ticketing.
WebBrowser
Authentication
User Identity Institutional Identity
Web Search of Campus and Departmental Web Pages
Student/Customer Ecommerce Web Services
Course SyllabiCourse Grades Transcripts Course Fees
INSTITUTIONAL
WEB
LINKS
Institutional and Departmental
Announcements
Customizable News Feeds
Library Portal Feeds/Links
Library MetaSearch Tools
Individualized Announcements
Portals in Libraries
• Customizable EResource Portals– MyLibrary (NCSU)
• Discipline Based Organization– Scout Portal Toolkit (Internet Scout
Project)• Collection Based Organization
– phpWebSite (Open Source)• Web Content Based Organization
Portals in Libraries
• Integrated Web Services– Integration with Campus Portal
• Royal Holloway University - London – New Books RSS Feed/SCT Luminis
– Integration with Course Management Systems• University of Maryland – WebCT/Metalib
– Integration with Course Reserve Systems• University of Rochester – HTML/MyLibrary
Portals in Libraries
• MetaSearch Systems with Portal Features– Iowa State University
• ZPortal– Kansas State University
• Encompass– University of Maryland
• Metalib
Agenda: Environmental Scan
Portals in Libraries2
Portals in Higher Education3
Overview1
Summary4
Questions5
Portals in Higher Education
• Customizable Institutional Portals– UPortal (Open-Source)
• Cornell University
– SCT Luminus (Proprietary)• Royal Holloway University
– Locally Developed Systems - MyUW• University of Washington
Agenda: Environmental Scan
Portals in Libraries2
Portals in Higher Education3
Overview1
Summary4
Questions5
Summary
• More Libraries are working with portal type features – Not just for the interested 10% but for all customers.– The “KillerApp” Idea must be
rethought with this integration.– If we force all constituents through
a portal?•ex. Need=Use•Needing Access to Grades will drive
use of easily available library EResources.
Summary
• Many Parent Institutions – (Universities/Municipalities) are starting to work with portal concepts for their customers who expect ecommerce web services.
Summary
• Work must be done with integrating library portal systems as Web Services within Institutional Portals or via other standards yet to be named.
• Early Adopters will ensure that the Library has a channel within the parent institution portal.
Portal Working Groups
• ARL Scholar’s Portal Project– http://www.arl.org/access/scholarsporta
l/• ARMPIG (ARL Metalib Portal
Interest Group)– http
://www.smugnet.org/2003na/presentations/armpig.ppt
• Java Architectures Special Interest Group (uPortal)– http://www.ja-sig.org/
Agenda: Environmental Scan
Portals in Libraries2
Portals in Higher Education3
Overview1
Summary4
Questions5