The Library Web Site of the Future :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher. Academic librarians want their Web sites to attract faculty and students the way flowers invite insects for a visit. The urge to plunge into the cornucopia of electronic riches that lies waiting in the library’s highly organized portal should be irresistible. Exclusive research databases, costly electronic journals and digital books and treasures lay in wait for those who need and are willing to seek them out. For faculty, at least two powerful motivators should drive their personal interest in expecting a great library Web site. One is their own need to easily find scholarly content that supports their research.
The other is a desire to have students discover the resources that strengthen their research and result in high quality assignments. It should be a scholar’s dream, but there’s trouble in paradise. According to the Ithaka report, academic librarians rated the function of the library as a gateway for locating scholarly information as “very important.” This needs to change. The Googlization of Everything. The People and the Commons. Emily Chang - eHub. eHub is a constantly updated list of web applications, services, resources, blogs or sites with a focus on next generation web (web 2.0), social software, blogging, Ajax, location mapping, open source, folksonomy, design and digital media sharing.
Visit eHub! Buzz and Blogosphere Sept 17, 2005eHub in The Social Software Weblog Barb Dybwad from The Social Sofware Weblog writes about eHub in her post, eHub and wsFinder: Web 2.0 applications and web services. September 16, 2005eHub cited by Stowe Boyd in Corante In today’s Get Real column at Corante, Stowe Boyd, President/COO of Corante, the world’s first blog media company, writes about discovering new web apps at eHub, a new resource by co-founder and Ideacodes principal Emily Chang. See Stowe Boyd’s post, Mapstats and Ajax apps at Corante. [Technorati tags: ajax, web 2.0, ruby on rails, social software, blogs, tagging, open source, strategic design, eHub, emily chang] Microsoft Popfly. Rewire the web.
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