[WEB4LIB] Library web site organization

[Robert Kalabus]

    The web sites that I try to model our library site on are newspaper
sites such as http://www.nytimes.com/ and http://www.chicagotribune.com/ --
where you usually don't have to click on a hierarchical category first to
get to where you want to go.  Most everything is laid out on one page.

Robert Kalabus
Hay Library
Western Wyoming Community College
http://www.wwcc.cc.wy.us/college/library/
    

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Smith [mailto:tsmith1 at ohiou.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 6:31 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Library web site organization


I don't know if this is a silly idea or not, but it's something I've been
thinking about and mulling over with some of my colleagues for awhile now,
and I'd like to hear other folks' reactions. From looking at the various web
pages of colleges and universities, it seems that most of us--my library
included--use a pretty traditional "libraryish" model to organize our home
pages: online catalog(s), databases, reference sources, electronic journals,
information about our libraries, pathfinders/subject guides, etc.

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