Essential elements of a library Web site.(The Systems Librarian)

From: Computers in Libraries | Date: February 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Over the course of the last 5 years or so, I've visited the Web sites of at least 10,000 libraries. One of my long-standing projects has been the lib-web-cats online directory of libraries. This data-base-driven resource provides a way for researchers to find the sites of libraries and their online catalogs on the Web. I started this database in 1997, and released it to the public in May 1999. For the general public, lib-web-cats serves as a finding aid for libraries. But for my personal research, it works as a rich data source for library automation trends. Part of the ...

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