[WEB4LIB] Re: ] RE: academic web administration

[Margaret Escherich]

Not an academic example, but yes, we did this for our public library.  We
originally were oak2.ci.oakland.ca.us.  The city went with oaklandnet.com
(I'm not even going to comment on that...!!), and we settled with
oaklandlibrary.org, and it seems to be a great improvement over the old
domain.

-Margaret

 Margaret Escherich
 Senior Librarian/Webmistress
 Oakland Public Library
 http://oaklandlibrary.org

> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib at webjunction.org
> [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Nancy Sosna Bohm
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 8:31 AM
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> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: ] RE: academic web administration
>
>
> > You can't rely on being placed on the first page of the web to
> get people
> to
> > use your library webpages.
>
> I am wondering if registering a short, catchy-yet-appropriate domain name
> would help. For example (fictional) : harvardlib.org
> Have libraries done this?
>