https://library.rietveldacademie.nl/
The Evergreen interface gives full access to the library catalog operations, but is not built to host other types of content. In front of that, the Library has a lighter website that both acts as an interface to the catalog, and as a place to collect informations on the library activities, announcements, and so on.
The website is built with a static website generator called Jekyll, which interacts with the back-end of the Evergreen library system thanks to its APIs.
Making our own simple webpage allowed to develop ways to activate elements of the library catalog in a different way from more traditional library interfaces, giving it another type of attention. Motivated by the understanding that cataloguing and classification are not neutral practices, that the objectivity of any Library is always the result of many collective processes of mediation, negotiation and judgement, we tried to bring it to the fore of what a visitor sees in the library website.
For example, one choice was to put outright to the frontpage the classic library element that stays the most obscure to its user: the classification system, in our case the SISO, which is a version of the Universal Decimal Classification system tuned for the Dutch language. The full collection of the library is scrolling vertically in all the pages of the website, in the form of a SISO snake.
A similar choice was to use the MARC-21 records, which are the form that all the books and other materials take when they are added to the library catalog, as the structure in which books are encountered in the website. Whenever you select a book, the READ / MARC switch in the top right corner alternates between a more friendly view of the main fields that a user is generally interested in (title, author, call number) and a full view of how the book is inscribed into the database.