This really is much more like what university library website search should be like, and what should be expected of a university library website. It’s the new NCSU libraries’ website. There’s also a very brief YouTube video about it.
NCSU libraries' website home page
Search results
Wouldn’t you like it if your students said this about your library? Here’s their intro for MBA students.
I checked their easy to use Chat service. It’s available from 8am to midnight (their time). Impressive. Their News service is good. They tweet. They’re on Facebook. They have GroupFinder so that their students can find each other. They have online booking of rooms. They do mobile access. Their students can see what computers are available.
There’s lots of impressive features on their website. More university library websites should be like this.
Also nice to see thay have a copy of the book I edited with Jim Corlett, and some papers 
But do they have a copy of Ancient Futures by John McKenzie (only 86p on Kindle!)? You’d think anyone who considered themselves educated would have access to that! Hotboy
Hi Hotboy,
You can check yourself by searching their wonderful site.
Even I, who actually work at New Caledonia South University, never reallised we had such impressive facilitities. But what do the kiddies actually do in their tweets, facebooks and gropefinders? Sell drugs and hook up. To unparaphrase McLuhan, content rules! The medium’s not the message.
PS – what’s your and Corlett’s book? And does this mean I have to write a book too, to balance everyone else up? I’m not even going to ask about your papers. Did you smoke them?
PPS – the video’s rather good.
Hi Rob,
If you click on the second graphic you can see details of the book. Same with the articles.
The library tweets about relevant information, etc. I don’t know what the students tweet about.
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