[WEB4LIB] College catalogues

[Kevin W. Bishop]

Cal,

I won't claim that we're pushing the envelope of course catalog
hyper-linking, but feel free to take a look at ours (req. frames-enabled
browser):

<http://www.rpi.edu/dept/catalog/98-99/>

Anyone's comments are welcome.

-kb

At 12:09 PM 3/18/99 -0800, Calvin Boyer wrote:
>Does the contractual characteristic of the college catalog somehow
>interfere with adding links and cross links throughout the text?  Unlike
>the foremost commercially-published electronic subject monographs, most
>college catalogues have yet to exploit aggressively such linking
>opportunities.  Yet the number of times the average undergraduate needs
>to consult the college catalog would seem sufficient reason for such
>full exploitation using these electronic capabilities.
>
>Are there examples of college catalogs which have pushed the envelope as
>far as some of the electronic monographs?
>
>
>
>Cal
>
>Calvin Boyer
>
>http://web.lwc.edu/administrative/library/boyer.htm
>
>Longwood College Library
>Farmville, VA 23909
>(804) 395-2083
> 
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