The 'Library Social Widget Toolkit' (LSWT) project will develop lightweight modular middleware, which will interface between library applications and a range of social widgets designed as part of the project. The widgets will be designed to plug into a variety of targets, including institutional portals and social networks. These will form the core of a library services widget repository, available to all members of the library community. The project will be of interest to all libraries interested in making self-service functionality available from within Virtual Learning Environments (Moodle, Blackboard), open source library applications (VuFind), and online social spaces (iGoogle, Facebook).

Library Social Widget Toolkit

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Overview

The 'Library Social Widget Toolkit' (LSWT) project will develop lightweight modular middleware, which will interface between library applications and a range of social widgets designed as part of the project. The widgets will be designed to plug into a variety of targets, including institutional portals and social networks. These will form the core of a library services widget repository, available to all members of the library community. The project will be of interest to all libraries interested in making self-service functionality available from within Virtual Learning Environments (Moodle, Blackboard), open source library applications (VuFind), and online social spaces (iGoogle, Facebook).

Lead Institution
  • London School of Economic & Political Science

 

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Project Staff

Project Director
  • Tim Green, Library IT Manager, LSE Library
 Project Manager

 

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Summary
Start date
1 June 2009
End date
30 November 2009
Funding programme
Information Environment Programme 2009-11
Strand
Rapid innovation strand
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Committees
  • JISC Integrated Information Environment committee
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