[WEB4LIB] Re: Second web directory?

[Karen G. Schneider]

Incidentally, the former boss at lii.org--who is a great library leader
and who I would not dream of disappointing by dorking up this wonderful
resource--crunched some numbers while I was blathering.  

Last Friday, lii.org had 69 404's ("broken links") out of 10786, for a
percentage of .6% (six-tenths of one percent).  Again, the real magic,
which has been true of lii.org since birth, is that the quality
continues to rise even as lii.org grows.  That is because lii.org is a
planned resource, with real management and oversight, not a pile of
links on a page. It has had daily oversight for a decade.  

Might I add, Carole is the senior indexer of all, with almost 1/3 of all
sites in lii.org, and every week she puts in significant work (now
volunteer!) grooming her excellent opus.  

You don't even want to know what happens before a record goes INTO
lii.org--our editors are merciless.  A site gets scanned, viewed in both
browsers, evaluated, and looked at upside and down.  They compare the
record with the site, and groom as needed.  They rewrite MY stuff, too.
;)

I've considered putting up our quarterly reports and statistics so the
world can see the magic.  

But now back to that "magic."  Magic, btw, takes a lot of work. 

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Karen G. Schneider kgs at lii.org  http://lii.org 
Coordinator, Librarians' Index to the Internet
lii.org  New This Week:     http://lii.org/ntw 
      lii.org: Information You Can Trust!
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:-----Original Message-----
:From: Karen G. Schneider [mailto:kgs at bluehighways.com]
:Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:55 AM
:To: 'KTDyer at aol.com'
:Subject: RE: [WEB4LIB] Re: Second web directory?
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:You are wonderful!  Thanks.
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:Karen G. Schneider kgs at lii.org  http://lii.org
:Coordinator, Librarians' Index to the Internet
:lii.org  New This Week:     http://lii.org/ntw
:      lii.org: Information You Can Trust!
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::-----Original Message-----
::From: web4lib at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]
:On
::Behalf Of KTDyer at aol.com
::Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:51 AM
::To: Multiple recipients of list
::Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Second web directory?
::
::In a message dated 4/24/2002 10:22:45 AM Pacific Standard Time,
::plum at ulink.net writes:
::
::
::> Considering how many dead links lii.org  currently has, perhaps it
would
::be
::> Fourth World?  Nancy
::>
::Nancy, I am dismayed.  I went to lii.org and was able to find what I
was
::looking for.  I have raved about this site to many people, using it as
a
::site
::of credible resources. Also, I have a lot of respect for the person
::handling
::lii.org now and also the prior persons' work --Karen Dyer
::
::
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