[WEB4LIB] Re: link annotations

[Mike Madin]

I too believe annotations are invaluable.  Often a good clue of an old web
directory is the lack of annotations.  In the mid-90's even some very good
subject directories were nothing more than long lists of blue text-links.
Not very pleasing to the eye and not very informative for the user.

At Academic Info we try to maintain a healthy balance between a useful
description and writing a lengthy "review" of the site.  Not all listings
though are annotated.  We do not describe a link to a society's newsletter
for example unless to say "full-text unavailable for current issue" or the
like.

To browse the various annotations for sites added this month go to our
What's New page at http://www.academicinfo.net/new.html .

Best Regards,

Mike Madin
Academic Info - http://www.academicinfo.net
Seattle

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Tiess" <rjtiess at warwick.net>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 4:23 PM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: link annotations


> "Martin, Julie" wrote:
> > We've got some debate going on about the value of
> > providing annotations for the resources we link to
> > on our library web site. We link to a large number
> > of databases, newsletters, electronic journals,
> > and web sites relevant to our company.
>
>