[WEB4LIB] ] RE: academic web administration

[Kevin W. Bishop]

How does one establish that "the most effective college web pages ... list 
the type of user"?

Is this an opinion, or has it been demonstrated anywhere -- in any way -- 
that an audience-based architecture is more effective than, say, a 
task-based navigational system?


This kind of thing keeps me up at night.
-kb


At 05:17 AM 5/15/01 -0700, Drew, Bill wrote:
>You can't rely on being placed on the first page of the web to get people to
>use your library webpages.  That is the lazy person's way out.  You must get
>out there and market your library.  Create an e-mail based newsletter.  Send
>out notices to appropriate faculty groups about new books and new databases.
>Get out of the library and go to department meetings.  Take part in college
>wide committees and activities.
>
>The first page of the most effective college webpages do not necessarily lit
>any departments.  They usually list the type of user: prospective student;
>enrolled student; faculty/staff; general public; alumni.  The library would
>then be liste don every one of those pages.
>
>Bill Drew
>drewwe at morrisville.edu

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Kevin W. Bishop, Campus-Wide Info. Sys. Coord.
Libraries and Information Services
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
<bishopk at rpi.edu> | <http://www.rpi.edu/rpinfo/>