Location information on library/institution webpages

[Steve Clancy]

What I found, though, is that on many institutional homepages the 
information was lacking as well.

-- Steve Clancy

On Mon, 8 Apr 1996, macneil bruce library wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
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> 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.
> 
> <here too>
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > Some might argue that physical location is irrelevant in the "virtual
> > world," but I don't think we're quite there yet.
> > 
> > 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.)
> > 
> > Any discussion? Observations?
> > 
> > -- Steve Clancy
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