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Library portals gateway to your soul. The library portal is the single most crucial interface between a library services department and its users. Tracey Caldwell finds out what new developments are setting the sector alight.
Library portals are the gateway to everything a corporate or academic library has to offer. Information professionals are seeing the benefit of gathering links to internal and external resources and providing a user-friendly access to them. Whether the portal is part of a wider institutional portal or standalone, librarians face many decisions, ranging from technical set-up to interface design, all against a backdrop of a great pace of change.
Library portals commonly provide access for the library user to internal and external library catalogues and open access archives, plus a range of external resources such as databases and journal publisher sites. The search ...
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