Library subdomain names

[Richard Wiggins]

Well, belaboring the obvious, but just to be clear: the word "Manhattan"
 obviously conveys class.  The word "mclibrary" invites the eye to see
McLibrary, which could convey another image.

Best of luck to the original poster.  I hope she will report back with the
end choice.

/rich


On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Michael Schofield <mschofield at nova.edu>wrote:

>  I agree. The *simplest *URL is the answer, whatever you determine that
> might be. I prefer *library.domain.edu* if only because the *
> domain.edu/library/* can get pretty harry with directories (i.e., we are
> .edu/library/main/whateverelse ), but opt for what’s available. You might
> find that *lib* works, but I would avoid a domain that includes your
> library’s name – you suggested *mclibrary*. Users remember big brands,
> and yet I’ve never known a user to remember the name  of the library. ****
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> Additionally, if you can take further advantage then try to grab-up the
> domains that a user might enter without navigating through the university
> site or Googling. If you go for lib.whatever.edu, be sure to take
> whatever.edu/library and redirect it. ****
>
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> Now you have 4 cents : ).****
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> Michael // ns4lib.com****
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> *From:* Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] *On
> Behalf Of *Richard Wiggins
> *Sent:* Sunday, August 04, 2013 4:21 PM
> *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> *Subject:* Re: [WEB4LIB] Library subdomain names****
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> This is something that institutions of all sizes wrestle with, as they
> have ever since the Web era began.  When do you use subdomains?  When do
> you use a "folder" - virtual or real - anchored off the main site?  When do
> you create a new domain?  Disney screwed this up with their "go"
> subdomains.  CBS uses cbsnews.com instead of news.cbs.com.
>
> But you folks appear to have it simple.  From a glance it appears that the
> major entry points at manhattan.edu are manhattan.edu/topic - About,
> Admissions, Academics.  What's wrong with manhattan.edu/library ?  Seems
> clean and simple.
>
> I do believe in generous redirects based on log analysis.  I just tried
> http://www.cbs.com/news and it failed to give the obvious redirect.  ****
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> Frankly, making your main link mclibrary.manhattan.edu because of a
> previous choice of a proxy server strikes me as an unfortunate choice,
> though understandable based on history.  But is your library branded in any
> way as "mclibrary" ?  Not a good brand.
>
> I'd worry more about why a search from the manhattan.edu home page
> doesn't bring up your library at the top of the hit list, and why the
> library is not more prominently featured on the home page.
>
> Just 2 cents' worth from far away.  Good luck!
>
> /rich****
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> On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Stacy Pober <stacy.pober at manhattan.edu>
> wrote:****
>
> As part of our web redesign, we are being given the opportunity to have
> our own subdomain in the college's website. ****
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> The most logical name would be "library" but that one is already being
> used for our EZproxy server, and it would be most onerous to change over
> 100,000 EZproxy links in our catalog, libguides, etc. ****
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> We've thought about some alternative subdomain names such as lib or
> mclibrary.  Anyone have some library subdomain naming wisdom they'd like to
> share?
> ****
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> --
> Stacy Pober
> Information Alchemist
> Manhattan College Library
> Riverdale, NY 10471
> stacy.pober at manhattan.edu ****
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