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8 December 2007
Library 2.0 in action with Pageflakes at Dublin City
Posted by Richard Wallis at December 8, 2007 09:52 AM
Michael Stephens points us at the Dublin City Public Libraries Portal created using Pageflakes.
This is exactly what using Web 2.0/Library 2.0 techniques gets you with comparatively little technical effort. Just as folks like Michael, and others like Karen Blakeman, have been telling us to get on and do at library conferences for the last couple of years.
The portal page - go on click the link if you haven't already - is a mashup of news feeds from the Library, the City Council, Irish and UK media. These are mixed with events guides from the Library, weather, world time, suggested links etc.
My one disappointment, for this excellent site which draws everything a library customer might need together in one place, is that 'Search the Library Catalogue' is just a link to a page in a new browser window which instructs you to click on 'Search Catalogue' before you are presented with a search prompt. Why is that prompt not sat inside an interactive Pageflake like the Google one? As a promoter of opening up library system APIs, I obviously know the answer to my own question - and with a bit of help from the Talis Platform this could be even better.
But hey I'm getting far too pernickerty - this is a great example which I'm sure will be emulated by others. Of course the real benefit comes from putting something like this under the noses of the people that will benefit most - the public. So even more kudos to Eddie Byrne from Dublin "The portal page I have created which will be the default home page on all the public access PCs in Dublin City Public Libraries"
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Having a catalogue search box directly on the page is number one on my wishlist - I have to investigate and learn all about APIs and the creation of flakes. There isn't enough hours in the day(!), so be patient, I hope I can deliver it. I am hugely conscious of the absence of direct catalogue search.
Ed
Posted by: Eddie Byrne at December 9, 2007 03:42 PM
