[WEB4LIB] RE: website training and review - what works?

[Kathy Wheeler]

We have all three types of names you mentioned but we still had some 
problems with students and some staff going to the University's page and 
not finding us. We asked that the libraries be listed on the  University 
homepage as well as under Academics (not necessarily where I would look, 
but ...). We were told that it wasn't necessary.

What I did about this was go find examples of university homepages where 
the library was listed, printed them out and sent them to our webmaster. 
That time, he got back to me and said he had been thinking of adding it. He 
did so the next day. I don't know why the second approach worked better 
with him but it did.

Tony, I also wanted to ask a question. How is not having all types of names 
a breach of academic freedom? I'm asking this question simply to know, not 
to be a smart alec or to flame anybody.


At 05:44 AM 3/16/01 -0800, you wrote:
>At 9:52 AM -0800 15/3/01, Hartman, Robin wrote:
>>We have the same problem with the library being hard to find from our
>>institution's home page for much the same reason. What we have done is to
>>publish the *library's* homepage every chance we get--on every handout and
>>bookmark, every datedue slip, every email, announcement, or blurb. I have
>>not done any testing to determine whether this approach has been successful
>>but I feel better about it.
>
>Those of you outside .au can read this mutatis mutandis with it deleted. A 
>university needs multiple hostnames. As well as www.university.edu.au you 
>need -
>
>library.university.edu.au and
>opac.university.edu.au
>
>Running everything through the one host name and pretending that 
>universities are monolithic institutions like commercial bodies is daft. 
>It's a breach of academic freedom to do so.
>
>Tony
>--
>phone  +61 2 6241 7659
>mailto:me at Tony-Barry.emu.id.au
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