Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Virginia Tech University Libraries)

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University will pursue further development of its highly successful LibX tool. LibX was created with funding from IMLS in 2006, and has been adopted by over 277 libraries. This project will extend LibX by building a community platform for developing and delivering library services. The LibX platform will offer library technology developers a way to extend the impact of existing services they have built and prototype new ones. It will immediately benefit a large community of librarians with average technology skills, who wish to integrate these services into their user community. Most importantly, it will benefit the libraries’ users.