Public workstation home pages survey -- results (fwd)

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Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 14:28:58 +0000
From: Walter W. Giesbrecht <walterg at YorkU.CA>
To: web4lib at library.berkeley.edu
Subject: Public workstation home pages survey -- results


A while back I asked you folks about what you used as the home page 
for public access workstations -- your library home page, you 
institution's home page (if this differs from the above) or a page of 
links to Internet resources. The results are now in:

Library home page             13
Campus/institution home page   2
Links to Internet resources    7

Obviously, the library home page wins. Some of you stated that your 
library home pages contained some links to Internet resources, so you 
really combined the two. Those of you who used a page of Internet 
links always included a link back to the library home page, plus that 
of your institution; this is the solution we've taken at York (for 
now, anyway). We will eventually have a more extensive listing of 
resources on our server, but we thought we'd use the workstation home 
page to get people started. Our workstation home page is at

<URL:http://www.library.yorku.ca/public.htm>

The library's home page is the same URL without the "public.htm". 
Comments on both are welcomed.

On another note: my access log notes about a dozen attempts to 
retrieve a file called robots.txt from the root directory of the 
server. Such a file has never existed here, and my colleagues who 
manage other servers on campus have noticed the same thing. Several 
of them have come from query2.lycos.cs.cmu.edu, which might be a 
Lycos search & index attempt; others are not obvious. Any ideas?


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Walter W. Giesbrecht               walterg at yorku.ca    
York University Libraries              
Curator of http://www.library.yorku.ca
       and http://www.flexnet.com/~infohiwy/