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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! If you have some good examples to add, leave a comment below or tweet me @pollyalida)
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
- Fine Print – Traverse Area District Library – “Fine Print is a curated collection of library inspired findings and fun to enrich your personal, professional, and creative endeavors.”
- Albany (NY) Public Library – Nicely organized, easy to use main page.
- Berthoud (CO) Community Library – Fun Staff bio page. Staff did great WebJunction webinar on how they developed the site.
- Â 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 – Site built w a child theme based on 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 LibrariesÂ
Special projects, library agencies & more
- Â 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 LibraryÂ
- Friends of the New Smyrna Beach Library
- ByWater Solutions – Koha support agency
- Digital Public Library of America
- ARLISÂ – Alaska Resources Library and Information ServicesÂ
- Alaska Association of School Librarians
- Tampa Bay Library Consortium
- Massachusetts Library System
- Vermont Library Association
- Mississippi Library Association
- K is for Kids Foundation – Books for kids charity
- Green Mountain Library Consortium
- Friends of CT Libraries
State & Regional ProjectsÂ
- 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.
- Colorado Online Libraries – CO State Library is supporting WordPress for many libraries in Colorado. Includes some great training materials.
- 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 10Â (yep, THAT Number 10!)
- Lafayette College (PA)
- WordPress as CMSÂ – more examples from the folks at WordPress
- Tablet Hotels MagazineÂ
Hello. We’re a small web development company in Eastern Ontario (near Canada’s capital). We use WordPress.com out of preference over WordPress.org for many of our small business and non-profit clients, including three libraries in our region:
https://ngpl.ca/
https://merrickvillelibrary.ca/
https://missmillslibrary.com/
We’re working with a fourth library in our area this year, and I’ve appreciated reviewing the list that you maintain, particularly as in this case we’re going to need to use WordPress.org (this particular library is bilingual and also relies on the BrowseAloud plug-in).
Thank you for considering the addition of these sites to your list.
Thank you Dagne, those sites look great! Nice to have some wordpress.com examples to show just how much you can do. And you’ve reminded me that I need to actually get the page updated. Yikes, it’s been a while.
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