1st Edition

Designing and Developing Library Intranets

Edited By Nina McHale Copyright 2013
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

For the past decade, e-mail has been the preferred method of internal communication in libraries. However, relying on email for organizational knowledge management seems a bit like storing birth certificates, car titles, and deeds in a pile of junk mail: the important documents are lost amongst other items of only minimal or fleeting importance. A successful intranet can provide a secure place... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Dynamic Space for Rent: Using Commercial Web Hosting to Develop a Web 2.0 Intranet  3. Upgrading a ColdFusion-Based Academic Medical Library Staff Intranet  4. For Better or Worse: Using Wikis and Blogs for Staff Communication in an Academic Library  5. When the New Application Smell Is Gone: Traditional Intranet Best Practices and Existing Web 2.0 Intranet Infrastructures  6. Who Moved My Intranet? The Human Side of Introducing Collaborative Technologies to Library Staff  7. Organizational and Social Factors in the Adoption of Intranet 2.0: A Case Study  8. An Unexpected Ally: Using Microsoft’s SharePoint to Create a Departmental Intranet  9. A Point to Share: Streamlining Access Services Workflow Through Online Collaboration, Communication, and Storage with Microsoft SharePoint  10. Intranet 2.0 from a Project Management Perspective  11. Designing and Building a Collaborative Library Intranet for All  12. Corralling Web 2.0: Building an Intranet That Enables Individuals

Biography

Nina McHale is Assistant Systems Administrator at the Arapahoe Library District, USA.