Comments on: The future of Web Services isn’t the Library website http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/2007/09/16/the-future-of-web-services-isnt-the-library-website/ Resources for librarians who are interested in the application of web design and technologies in libraries Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:08:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Laura Cohen http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/2007/09/16/the-future-of-web-services-isnt-the-library-website/#comment-34976 Laura Cohen Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:38:35 +0000 http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/2007/09/16/the-future-of-web-services-isnt-the-library-website/#comment-34976 Excellent post, Karen. If our sites are to survive - and this is questionable in my mind, too - they need to become community sites, and be lightweight, mobile, mashable...everything they are not. I wonder if eventually the tools to do this kind of thing will be as ubiquitous as the currently-existing tools for static sites. It's a dream, anyway, and might come too late to save us. This past summer I wrote a blog posting, <a href="http://liblogs.albany.edu/library20/2007/07/the_end_of_web_design.html" rel="nofollow">The End of Web Design</a>. I think you'd relate to it! Excellent post, Karen. If our sites are to survive - and this is questionable in my mind, too - they need to become community sites, and be lightweight, mobile, mashable…everything they are not. I wonder if eventually the tools to do this kind of thing will be as ubiquitous as the currently-existing tools for static sites. It’s a dream, anyway, and might come too late to save us.

This past summer I wrote a blog posting, The End of Web Design. I think you’d relate to it!

]]> By: dsa http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/2007/09/16/the-future-of-web-services-isnt-the-library-website/#comment-30431 dsa Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:27:26 +0000 http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/2007/09/16/the-future-of-web-services-isnt-the-library-website/#comment-30431 I couldn't agree more with almost everything you write here; in fact, this post was pointed out to me by someone who works for me and noted the similarity in tone and argument to my own comments. What pains me no end is that I, and many others, still work in organizations where many of those in positions to set tone and change directions (read: deans, directors, department heads) are still quite capable of fixing their gaze firmly on their navels and ignoring the changing world around them. Sure, they talk 2.0, and they love repeating platitudes about Net Gen students and how the library needs to be where the action is, yada yada yada. How many of them, however, are ready to leap headlong into the future, e.g.- go with an OS ILS, say no to vendor-driven metasearch/metawhatever tools, abandon original cataloging, etc. Not many, at least not in larger academic libraries. So, we're stuck creating band-aids for dysfunctional vendor products and tweaking the library's Website, when, in fact, that Website is largely irrelevant these days. I couldn’t agree more with almost everything you write here; in fact, this post was pointed out to me by someone who works for me and noted the similarity in tone and argument to my own comments. What pains me no end is that I, and many others, still work in organizations where many of those in positions to set tone and change directions (read: deans, directors, department heads) are still quite capable of fixing their gaze firmly on their navels and ignoring the changing world around them. Sure, they talk 2.0, and they love repeating platitudes about Net Gen students and how the library needs to be where the action is, yada yada yada. How many of them, however, are ready to leap headlong into the future, e.g.- go with an OS ILS, say no to vendor-driven metasearch/metawhatever tools, abandon original cataloging, etc. Not many, at least not in larger academic libraries. So, we’re stuck creating band-aids for dysfunctional vendor products and tweaking the library’s Website, when, in fact, that Website is largely irrelevant these days.

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