1. Making the Most with Micro$oft Using SharePoint Services as a Reference Portal David Dahl, Emerging Technologies Librarian Kay Kazinski, Library Technology Coordinator Albert S. Cook Library , Towson University

2. Library Reference Department 13 Reference Librarians 1 Library Associate 1 Administrative Assistant 1 Library Technology Coordinator

3. Towson University & Albert S. Cook Library - Fall ‘08 8,823 Reference Transactions 52,543 Patrons/month 10 Known Library Committees 285 Library Instruction Sessions

4. What is a reference portal?

5. Available Options for a Reference Portal Create our own Purchase an intranet solution Open source options

7. Architecture Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) collaboration, content management, RSS, wiki, blogs, master pages, calendars, surveys, mobile required free MS Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) Search, page layouts, LADP, SSO, slide libraries, repository, social networking optional standard or enterprise $$$ Microsoft Office (2007) use office applications from within SharePoint optional SQL Server 2005 backend database required $$$ MS SharePoint Designer 2007 Create web parts,master pages, css, customize sites optional $$$ MS Project Server 2007 project management, project servers reporting and report server in MOSS 2007 optional $$$

8. Out of the box site

9. Reference Portal

10. SharePoint Web Parts Other features: RSS Feeds Site Aggregator Stats Tracker

11. Usage Statistics

12. Creating the REFFY award

13. Gathering Feedback for Assessment

14. Feedback and assessment cont’d “ potential is fully maximized…” “ like to know more about…” “ has a lot of potential…” “ make it indispensable…” “ quickest way to share information…” “ still learning…”