http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/

Monash library.  Another Voyager library that has ITS personnel in the
library with high expertise.  If they go to 'their' page they
automatically show what they have checked out/when due/what online
lectures are available...

http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/

Cambridge University Library



http://search.library.cmu.edu/client/default

Carnegie Mellon University Libraries

http://www-sul.stanford.edu/

Stanford



http://www.lib.virginia.edu/

U of Virginia



http://libraries.mit.edu/

MIT library



http://dir.yahoo.com/reference/libraries/academic_libraries/

New York Public Library

http://www.nypl.org/

http://www.freelibrary.org/
(I think the three big words Find, Explore etc are a very good idea).

http://www.lapl.org/
http://www.ipl.org/



BNF website(http://www.bnf.fr/fr/acc/x.accueil.html) is quite good
because you find easily the information needed, and it is aesthetic as
well.

University of Rochester
http://www.rochester.edu/libraries/


Directory of Academic libraries



http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Website_Design

They can try this page to see if they agree with what people have put
there. Library Website Hall of Fame  The following is from this page.


Usability Tips


* Best books on usability and web interface design
<http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Best_books_on_usability_and_web_interface_design>  * Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design <http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html>  * Library Terms That Users Understand <http://www.jkup.net/terms.html>  * Research-Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines <http://usability.gov/guidelines/>  * 90% of All Usability Testing is Useless <http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000328.php>  * How to Design Library Web Sites to Maximize Usability <http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/lcp/0502/lcp0502.pdf>  - second edition (2007) * Sinking or Swimming: The State of Web Sites in Ohio's Public Libraries <http://www.designforthelittleguy.com/study.pdf>  * Web Presence for Internet Librarians <http://ricklibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/11/web-presence-for-internet-librarians.html>  Notes from a presentation given by Shari Thurow at Internet Librarian 2006 * Liberty Interactive Marketing Blog
<http://www.libertyinteractivemarketing.com/blog/>





http://roddymacleod.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/many-university-library-websites-suck/



Here's one opinion on federated search engines - ouch - he also has
ideas on library web design.  It's true many federated search engines
don't work well and none that I've seen do what you really want yet.

"It may be the case that some libraries cannot afford Primo
<http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/category/PrimoOverview> , Summon
<http://www.serialssolutions.com/summon/> or equivalent, but why not?
If finances are so bad, and there's no other viable way, they should
get rid of a member of library staff and invest instead in improving
the services that are actually needed.  The only thing worse than
having a poor federated/meta search service is having no cross-search
service at all"