Hi Daniel,

The Archivists & Archives List used to receive posts from a woman promoting
her books and articles on libraries using SharePoint.  Her name is Lorette
Weldon <[log in to unmask]>.  She might be able to help.

Best,
Nathan Tallman
Associate Archivist
American Jewish Archives

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Cornwall, Daniel D (EED) <
[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> Our library has been working on transitioning our website  to a Web
> Content Management system for several years running. Our basic desire is
> to provide a platform where designated people from the library's
> sections are able to update their own content without disrupting the
> sites overall look and feel. There are other features we're interested
> in, but that's the basic idea. It's been an on and off project, but it
> is now on again. We have thought about what staff and visitor experience
> should be after the transition. Internal discussion focused on open
> source content management systems
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> In the process of working with our parent agency, we were encouraged to
> take a very close look at SharePoint 2007, which is our parent agency
> standard for creating collaborative websites. The parent agency has a
> SharePoint license we can use and has used it to build some specialized
> applications.
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> Most of what I've found on SharePoint so far has been about building
> intranets. I'd really like to get in touch with people who have used
> SharePoint for their external site. If you or someone you know has
> created (or maintains) a library (or archives or Museum) site using
> SharePoint, would you send me contact information along with your
> general impressions of the difficulty of training staff to update their
> own pages in SharePoint?
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> If this is a better question for the web4lib list, feel free to let me
> know. Thanks in advance for whatever assistance you can render. - Daniel
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> Division of Libraries, Archives and Museums
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