I'm excited by a new site launched today called
libSite where you can read reviews of library web sites as well as write your own. A former colleague of mine here in the
library at Baruch College, Leo Klein, set up this little gem of a site that will likely to prove to be a key destination for anyone interested in web design and libraries. Leo, by the way, is also behind the not-so-new-anymore blog,
ChicagoLibrarian.
When I came to the library at Baruch College in 1999 as a library school intern, I quickly realized what a talented designer Leo was. Although our library has redesigned its web site since Leo left, you can still see portions of his work that we left untouched that demonstrate his considerable elan as a designer, such as:
I don't pretend to have much in the way of web design skills, but I do appreciate all that Leo taught me before he left Baruch a few years ago. As our library's Web Oversight Committee soldiered on without him in the process of redesigning our web site, I began to gather a number of links that I shared with other members of the committee to illustrate a number of design innovations. You can see those links on our committee's del.icio.us account. Leo's new project, libSite, now offers a better forum for discussing the latest and best in web design and development in libraryland, one that I wish was around when my colleagues and I were checking out what other library's where up to.
FYI: In addition to Leo, some other librarian bloggers who consistently write about web design and are worth keeping up with include:
UPDATE (April 12, 2007) A few more librarian bloggers who often write about design that I should have mentioned when I first posted this message:
Labels: library web sites, web design
