Ken Roberts and a Community Portal

Ken Roberts, award winning children’s author and city librarian for Hamilton, Ontario, showed us his cool community portal. As background you need to know that at one point Ken was seconded to be head of IT for the city and then merged the city’s IT department into the library’s main building under his direction. There’s too much to say and you should just go look.
Here’s the library here. Here’s the city’s portal. Notice the look and feel and seamlessness of the community experience. Ken used local citizen personas to develop the sites. McMaster University is doing a review right now.
Either way, no matter where you go, the library is omnipresent in this city.
Stephen