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Ten great things an online academic library can do

1. Communicate with the academic community
2. Get proper subject librarians who know their stuff to generate the content for the library website!
3. Provide high-quality, easy to use tools to put the content the users created online in various formats (see 4)
4. Keep the content updated
5. Provide consistent interfaces, preferably a single consistent interface where possible
6. Present users with the resources they use, making things one click away
7. Structure information, making it customizable where this is appropriate
8. Make sure that everyone in the library is on the same page regarding services, ensure that users are getting the course offerings they want/need
9. Provide a library toolbar
10. Evangelize!  

Ten brainless things an online academic library can do

1. Not actively talking (listening) to the academic community
2. Cut away the subject-specific angle and quality assurance in favour of a “streamlined”, centralized appearance
3. Go static
4. Implement technologies that help administration, but not the user
5. Bolt bits on the old design to make it two-oh
6. Federated search, but no training
7. Cut away the OPAC in favour of ancillary systems (for example eJournal and database repositories)
8. Rely on third parties with whom you have no trust relation to store important information
9. Focus on what’s new/important/good rather than what’s being used
10. Aquabrowser
11. [BONUS] Providing five databases when one would have sufficed

Via Tame The Web: Ten Things… about Academic Libraries

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