ALA | Internet Portals Interest Group

Library & Information Technology Association

Internet Portals Interest Group

Mission and Goals: Established in 2002. The Internet Portals IG defines a portal as a service (and related systems and approaches to organization) that facilitates organized knowledge discovery via information accessible through the Internet. The mission of the IG is to explore, research, educate and generally facilitate an understanding and sharing of knowledge about portal services (best practices, system design and software) among LITA members and throughout the library community and to help improve the state-of-the-art of portal services, systems, and support groups in regard to both current and future library (or related) services. This will be accomplished through educational programs and presentations, publications and participation in standards development relevant to portals. Although the major focus is library-based or oriented portals, all portals are of interest to the IG given that important path breaking technologies and approaches of value to libraries frequently stem from non-library contexts.