[WEB4LIB] Re: Library Web Page Use

[Craighton Hippenhammer]

I think one of the strongest arguments for having an obvious library link on the university home page is just that:  our distance education students.  They know their way around even less well than freshmen, and I sure would like to make it easier for them.

Craighton Hippenhammer


>>> Dan Lester <dan at riverofdata.com> 12/10/01 02:25PM >>>
My apologies for not writing clearly enough in the text below.  Of
course you are right that a great many users connecting from off
campus IP addresses are students and faculty.  I was trying to
indicate that the ones who are not already affiliated with the
university probably doesn't care about the library, and that if s/he
did, a great many academic libraries would provide minimal or no
services to them anyway, at least unless they paid a fee.

dan


Monday, December 10, 2001, 12:38:22 PM, you wrote:

>>  Also, does anyone who is coming
>> to the home page from off campus really care about the library?
>> Should they?

JH> Since, increasingly, 'campus' users are coming in to the home page of
JH> the institution from 'off campus', to claim that 'off campus' (i.e.,
JH> those not coming from a University IP address) users don't care about
JH> the library is disingenuous.



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