Access to Knowledge: New Information Technologies and the Emergence of the Virtual University
Access to Knowledge: New Information Technologies and the Emergence of the Virtual University
Challenges in Building Digital Libraries for the 21st Century
ICADL '02 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries: Digital Libraries: People, Knowledge, and Technology
Design Guidelines and User-Centred Digital Libraries
ECDL '99 Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Proven Portals: Best Practices for Planning, Designing, and Developing Enterprise Portals
Proven Portals: Best Practices for Planning, Designing, and Developing Enterprise Portals
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In large academic libraries, the organization and management of diverse digital content for easy access has always posed a challenge. Users have varying information needs and are often confounded by having to access information residing on disparate systems via different interfaces and authentication credentials. To improve the user experience, the new Library Portal was implemented using enterprise portal technology to deliver personalization and single sign-on capabilities. It leverages the widely-adopted J2EE standard for application integration using an industry-leading application server and award-winning portal framework on low cost Linux platform. By utilizing standard-based technologies, the library is able to manage a scalable and highly-configurable portal which integrates with INNOPAC, the library‘s automated system, and the campus LDAP directory servers to provide convenient single sign-on to library services. Personalized access to INNOPAC, library contents and digital library resources is delivered through user profiling, group-based entitlements and a rule engine.