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Managing Your Institutional Web Gateway

Join this session to learn about the issues related to providing a quality institutional gateway and to explore tools that can help manage portals effectively. Gain insights from subject gateways and participate in a group exercise to review institutional portals.

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Managing Your Institutional Web Gateway

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  1. Managing Your Institutional Web Gateway Phil Cross ILRT University of Bristol Bristol phil.cross@bristol.ac.uk Brian Kelly UK Web Focus UKOLN University of Bath B.Kelly@ukoln.ac.uk UKOLN is funded by the Library and Information Commission, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the Higher Education Funding Councils, as well as by project funding from the JISC and the European Union. UKOLN also receives support from the University of Bath where it is based.

  2. About Us • Brian Kelly: • UK Web Focus • JISC-funded advisory post on web matters • Based at UKOLN • Background in computer support work • Phil Cross: • ILRT, University of Bristol • Involved in running SOSIG gateway and DESIRE project • Background in library work

  3. Aims of the Session • The aims of the session are: • To enable participants to find out more about issues related to the provision of a quality institutional gateway (portal) • To learn from the approaches of the subject gateways • To find out more about tools which can help manage portals

  4. About You • What is your involvement with the web? • What do you hope to gain from the session?

  5. Examples • Many institutions provide a portal to Internet resources

  6. Group Exercise • Now attempt hands-on exercise in reviewing institutional portals • In the exercises thing about: • Problems and difficulties • Positive features • Your conclusions will feed into the next session

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