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LIBRARIES USING WORDPRESS

A selection of libraries using WordPress - most examples are for libraries using WordPress as a content management system (CMS) to serve as the primary website for their library. (This list is by no means comprehensive!) 

School Libraries using WordPress

• Helen Temple Cooke Library (MA) - uses a magazine style theme
• Castilleja School
• The Dixie Grammar School Library (UK) - Great example of how a school library can use WordPress as a CMS.
• Collins Hill High School Media Center - Actually done with Weebly, but looks just like a WordPress site, so I'm including it as as a good example of what you could do. 
• Dutchess BOCES School Library System
• Holliston (MA) High School - Making great use of WordPress.com 

Public  Libraries using WordPress

• Albany (NY) Public Library - Nicely organized, easy to use main page.
•  Elmhurst (IL) Public Library - Well organized, attractive and uncluttered.
• Corvallis-Benton County (OR) PL - Nicely organized. Events are also featured on the City website. Nice cooperation.  
  
• Lawrence (KS) Public Library -  Nice uncluttered design and nicely responsive! 
• Orion Township (MI) Public Library - new site (May 2013) built a child theme based on Woo Canvas.
• White Plains (NY) Public Library 
• East Fishkill (NY) Community Library - uses the Magazine Basic theme
• Rye (NH) Public Library
• Patagonia (AZ) Public Library - uses Arras theme 
• Stillwater (NY) Free Library - Uses a magazine style theme.
• Cottesloe-Peppermint Grove-Mosman Park Library - Western Australia. Read Kathryn Greenhill's posts on the process of creating this site.
• West Haven (CT) Public Library
• Superior (AZ) Public Library - Nice, simple site using WordPress.com 
• Hagerstown Jefferson Township (IN) Library - Really love their staff/board introduction page. Each person talks about why they love the library, no job titles, just a community feel. 
• Durham (CT) Public Library 
• New Haven (CT) Free Public Library  
• Union County (PA) Library System 
• North Tonawanda (NY) Public Library
• Bridgeport (CT) Public Library
• Boylston (MA) Public Library - WordPress.com with redirect to their own URL 
• Topeka Shawnee Countu (KS) Public Library
• Cheshire (CT) Public Library 
• Preston (CT) Public Library 
• Wilton (CT) Public Library  
  
• Mancos (CO) Public Library
• Berlin Peck Memorial Library (Berlin, CT)
• Polk County (NC) Public Library
• North Haven (CT) Public Library
• Southfield (MI) Public Library
• Reading (MA) Public Library
• Troy (NY) Public Library 
• Stevens (MA) Memorial Library
• Stephentown (NY) Memorial Library
• Dartmouth (MA) Public Libraries
• Caldwell Lake George (NY) Library - simple site with attractive theme. 

Academic Libraries & Projects using WordPress

• Case Western Law Library -  Nice search features, research guides, handy expandable menus on sidebar.
• University of Mary Washington Libraries - Nicely organized, great custom theme. 
• Unified Astronomy Thesaurus - Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics John G. Wolbach Library
• College of Staten Island - Catalog, etc search right up top. 
• University of Arkansas, School of Law -  Library is part of the School of Law website - all done with a custom WP theme. 
• Santa Barbara City College: Luria Library -  Great example of customizing the TwentyTen theme.
• UNC - Greensboro - Dept of Library & Information Studies - created by Amanda Goodman 
  
• Carnegie Vincent Library - Lincoln Memorial University. They've done a terrific job of creating subject guides with WordPress
• Lamson Library & Learning Commons -Plymouth State University - Uses a website and catalog interface called Scriblio, built on WordPress.
• Elmhurst College Library - Elmhurst, IL - highly customized WP project. (Kyle Jones did this great work)
• Lake Washington Technical College, Learning Commons
• Millsaps-Wilson Library 
• Hoover Library, McDaniel College 
• Miami University Libraries 

Special projects, library agencies & more 

•  Mid-Hudson (NY) Library System
•  Summer Reading - Durham County (NC) PL
• NY3Rs - New York State 3R's association - great example of using a responsive theme.
• Madison NH PL History Project - wonderful use of a simple, but elegant theme to display local history materials. nicely done! 
• Friends of the Orion (MI) Township Public Library 
• Friends of the New Smyrna Beach Library
• ByWater Solutions - Koha support agency
• Digital Public Library of America 
• ARLIS - Alaska Resources Library and Information Services  
• Alaska Association of School Librarians 
• Tampa Bay Library Consortium  
• Massachusetts Library System
• Vermont Library Association 
• WPA Art Inventory Project - CT State Library project. WOW!
• Mississippi Library Association
• K is for Kids Foundation - Books for kids charity 
• VOYA - Voice of Youth Advocate  uses a magazine style theme.
• Green Mountain Library Consortium
• Friends of CT Libraries

State & Regional Projects 

• Southern Adirondack Library System (NY) - This may be the earliest region-wide project focused on providing libraries with WordPress based websites. In September 2006, a group of 30 library staff learned how to use WordPress to create a complete website, not just a news blog. About 1/3 of the their 35 libraries are now using WordPress. I was excited to work with Elaine Baker and the staff of Southern Adirondack Library System on this project.
• Northeast Kansas Library System
• Kansas Libraries on the Web
• Nebraska Libraries on the Web
• Park County (WY) Library System
• Utah Public Libraries
• Mississippi Library Association

• Wp4lib - Older list of library websites on WordPress.

Some non-library examples

• Wall Street Journal Magazine
• Queen City Roller Girls! :)
• Number 10 (yep, THAT Number 10!)
• Lafayette College (PA)
• WordPress as CMS - more examples from the folks at WordPress
• Tablet Hotels Magazine