[WEB4LIB] Libweb and the Seven Year Itch

[Thomas Dowling]

> <snip>
> >... However, I have the
> > time and inclination to do only a very little poking: sites that turn
out
> > to be unfindable get deleted from the directory.  This is especially
> > likely to happen with public libraries whose pages live at commercial
> > ISPs.  When you move from there, there's usually no pointer to where
> > you've gone, and no obvious parent web site that might provide the new
> > link.  I've actually deleted more sites than I've added over the last
few
> > weeks - a good reason to get a reasonable domain name and stick with it.
>
> You don't just do a Google search for the missing Library page by titles?
>
>

Yes, that's one of the things I try.  Unfortunately, for the same reason I
can't find their new links, Google usually can't find their new links.  In
some cases, Google's top hit is Libweb, which doesn't help that much.  :-)

Thomas Dowling
Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu