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Our library has a pretty well-placed link on the university home page, so I can't complain there. The library website is the home page on the computers within our library and commons buildings, so students can get right to their research. I see no reason you should have the site under lock and key unless you don't require users to login to access databases and other vendor-based resources. Many libraries I've seen have a setup where they allow the public to access the item records or indices for most resources, but then require authentication for full-text viewing. We share a server with our main institutional CMS, but we don't like the CMS, so we're the only department that is allowed to do our own thing web design and development-wise. We pushed for Drupal, but can't go that route due to security issues (or so they say). So I'm literally hand-coding our entire library website until they see that Drupal (or something similar) is the answer to all their problems! I certainly agree that many institutions don't understand the complexity of the modern library website, as I think Nina alluded to above. Thanks, Scott On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Lisa Rabey <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Miles Fidelman > <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Then again, how many university libraries can't be found by > > library.<institution>.edu > > > > I asked the network people at one of my institutions why it was > lib.name.edu and not library.name.edu, and was told the > library.name.edu was orignally slated for the library school, then it > was used for internal use only for computer naming schemea for the > universities library system, not for web services. > > I don't agree library.name.edu should be a standard, but do agree > whatever web services topography is deployed it should be consistant > with that institutions layout. > > -Lisa > > > Lisa M. Rabey | @pnkrcklibrarian > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > An Unreliable Narrator: http://exitpursuedbyabear.net > Cunning Tales from a Systems Librarian: http://lisa.rabey.net >