Transcript Discussion Group ALA, June 29, 2008 Library à la Carte Margaret Mellinger

Library à la Carte
Library Information Made to Order
a College Science Librarians
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Discussion Group
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ALA, June 29, 2008
a Margaret Mellinger
a Oregon State University Libraries
How do people read on the web?
. . . we don’t
Library à la Carte
Library Information Made to Order
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Library Content + 2.0
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Content “chunked”
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RSS feeds, widgets, etc.
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Highlight sources that
faculty recommend
Library à la Carte
Library Information Made to Order
a Easy to use interface
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Build in blocks
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Add and reuse content
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Customize with CSS
a Drag and Drop Interface
Library à la Carte is open source software
developed by the Oregon State University Libraries
and distributed under GNU General Public License.
http://ica.library.oregonstate.edu/about/download.html
Request a free demo account by emailing our
programmer, Kim Griggs:
[email protected]