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Item Building a Single User Experience(2011-10-18) Vacek, Rachel; McHale, Nina; Battles, JasonThe modern library web environment consists of multiple content sources and applications that perform essential functions that often overlap and could potentially create a fractured user experience. For example, content in a library’s Drupal website may be replicated in LibGuides or WordPress blogs. Search functionality in a discovery platform may be replicated in a federated search tool or the ILS OPAC. This presentation provides tips, tackles technical and political challenges to building a single web experience for users, discusses solutions and use of APIs (application programming interfaces), provides concrete examples, and more.Item Migrating to Drupal: Open Source Library Intranets(2010-10-23) Vacek, Rachel; Battles, Jason; McHale, Nina; Baird, CatherineThis workshop was presented at Internet Librarian in Monterey, CA, on October 23, 2010.Item Streamlining Data for Cross-Platform Web Delivery(Taylor & Francis, 2013) Watkins, Sean; Battles, Jason; Vacek, RachelSmartphone users expect the presentation of Web sites on their mobile browsers to look and feel like native applications. With the pressure on library Web developers to produce app-like mobile sites, there is often a rush to get a site up without considering the importance of reusing or even restructuring the data driving the Web sites. An additional challenge is the content maintenance required of any Web site, regardless of platform, underscoring the advantage of pulling content from other systems to decrease redundancy. This article highlights case studies from two large research universities, examines how each one is streamlining its data for multiple Web-based platforms, and discusses how to work toward making data more flexible so content is delivered from single source points rather than duplicated on individual delivery platforms.