[WEB4LIB] web pages without basic information

george at library.caltech.edu george at library.caltech.edu
Tue Oct 29 19:40:21 EST 2002


Bill Drew's comment about the lack of basic mailing address and phone
numbers in library webpages reminds me of another far too common faux pas.
Phone numbers may be listed by extension only, presupposing an independent
knowledge of area code and university telephone exchange!  Typical examples
of thinking that the webpages' impact does not extend beyond the building or
campus.

Public libraries tend not to be quite so near sighted as academics in this
regard.  YMMV.

George S. Porter
Sherman Fairchild Library of Engineering & Applied Science
Caltech, 1-43
Pasadena, CA  91125-4300
Telephone (626) 395-3409 Fax (626) 431-2681



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