Location information on library/institution webpages

[macneil bruce library]

I suppose the reason that most of us don't list the location is that the 
Library page is one in a number that are linked to a University homepage 
that does have an 'ABOUT the University of ...' section. I know our 
Library homepage left the address out because we felt it to be redundant 
and because we felt there was other information that was more important.
A second reason might be that many of us created homepages for the use of 
our own community (students, faculty and staff) and felt that if they 
didn't know the address of their own institution, they were in deep 
trouble. 
If your next question is will you add it to the homepage? I think I'd 
vote no because it can be found from the University homepage.

Bruce MacNeil
Associate Librarian, Information
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON  N2L 3G1
bpmacnei at library.uwaterloo.ca
(519) 888-4567 x2112



On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, Steve Clancy wrote:

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> Greetings.

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> Many of the library homepages I visited, and also those of the affiliated
> institutions, did not clearly identify the location of the library, i.e.
> City and State.

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> I've noticed that this seems to be a chronic problem on the WWW in
> general, but we in the library world should be more conscientious about
> providing complete and accurate information.
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> Some might argue that physical location is irrelevant in the "virtual
> world," but I don't think we're quite there yet.
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> Check out your own library's and/or institution's homepage and see if you
> can easily tell where it's located (assuming you didn't already know.)
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> Any discussion? Observations?
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> -- Steve Clancy
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