Shu Liu's Engaging Users: The Future of Academic Library Web Sites is an insightful analysis into the present situation of academic library homepages. Academic library websites are libraries' virtual presentation to the world. Liu argues for Web 2.0 concepts for library websites. I enjoyed this article tremendously. It lays out the vision that many websites can handily and readily use in the current landscape of the Web. Take a look, it's worth a read.(1) User Focus - Focus on library users by presenting library resources in a targeted an customized manner
(2) Personalization - Recognize library users as individuals by giving them opportunities to configure their own library interfaces and to select tools and content based on personal needs
(3) User engagement - Provide sufficient tools to allow and encourage library users in content creation and exchange
(4) Online communities - Nurture the development of online communities by connecting individuals through online publishing, and sharing Web 2.0 tools
(5) Remixability - Employ a mashup approach to aggregate current and emerging information technologies to provide library users with opportunities to explore new possibilities of information resources.
