catalog links to web sites

[Bob Jones]

This sounds like a maintenance nightmare.  Wouldn't you rather use 
something like Britannica Online which does this for you; or provide 
functionality to your catalog software to formulate an on-the-fly internet 
search based on the user's search sets?


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On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Lubans, John wrote:

> Greetings:
> 
> This is a call for feedback from libraries who are cataloging web sites and 
> creating live links from within their on line catalogs. The Duke library has 
> already done a considerable amount of cataloging of and linking with  electronic 
> versions of print materials, like all the journals in Project MUSE. 
> 
> Now, we'd like to test the idea for putting live or 'hot" links from inside  the 
> library's on-line catalog to useful WEB sites, like ones for famous authors or 
> other historic persons or for major topical collections. For example, students 
> looking for information about Emma Goldman would encounter in our subject 
> catalog several links to http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman. 
> 
> The organization and scaleability inherent in our catalogs suggest this could be 
> a worthwhile experiment. Also, based on  preliminary input from a survey of web 
> use among first year students at Duke, users have a high regard for librarians' 
> ability to organize information. They would like our expert help in  making some 
> sense of the Internet's seeming chaos. 
> 
> So, who out there has already undertaken something like this?
> 
> Please let me hear from you about how it is going and what we should take into 
> account as we venture forth. I am particularly interested in how sites are 
> selected for inclusion and how you assess their use. 
> How are selected sites communicated to catalogers?
> Do you use meta data/Dublin core elements in cataloging web sites?
> What's the workload impact on selectors/catalogers?
> 
> Thank  you. 
> 
> If there is a significant response, I will compile and post it. 
> 
> John Lubans
> Deputy University Librarian
> Duke University
> 219 Perkins Library
> Durham, NC,  27708 USA 
> jl at mail.lib.duke.edu
> 919 660 5800
> 919 660 5923 FAX
> 
>