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This report looks closely at how academic libraries are
re-shaping their websites. The study is based on a survey of
56 academic library web staffs with data broken out by size
and type of academic institution and other criteria. The
160 page study gives exhaustive data about academic library
preferences in areas such as use of mashups, library social
media sites, website staff and budgets, role of the college
and library IT staffs, governance of the website, content
entry policies, relations with the college IT and web staff,
branding issues, college web conformity issues, preferences in
content management systems, programming and scripting,
division of web staff time among various priorities, use of
blogs, listservs, email newsletters, rss feeds and other
communication vehicles, use of and plans for federated search,
search box presentation strategy, and use of cascading style
sheets. The study also covers ease of use issues for
library staff focusing on how easy it is to perform certain
website-related tasks such as entry of the same content to
multiple site locations, ease of inserting and positioning
videos, and ease of inserting tabular materials, among other
tasks. Other issues covered include but are not limited
to: use of freelancers and consultants, sources of advice, use
of social bookmarking tools and much more.