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MEXICAN WEB SITES: THE UACJ CORC EXPERIENCE

MEXICAN WEB SITES: THE UACJ CORC EXPERIENCE. Jesús Lau / Jesús Cortés Juanita Martínez Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez MÉXICO jlau@uacj.mx / jcortes@uacj.mx / jmtz@uacj.mx The OCLC Symposium, "Libraries and the Web: Shaping and Defining the Future,"

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MEXICAN WEB SITES: THE UACJ CORC EXPERIENCE

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  1. MEXICAN WEB SITES:THE UACJ CORC EXPERIENCE Jesús Lau / Jesús CortésJuanita Martínez Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad JuárezMÉXICOjlau@uacj.mx / jcortes@uacj.mx / jmtz@uacj.mx The OCLC Symposium, "Libraries and the Web: Shaping and Defining the Future," ALA Midwinter ConferenceSan Antonio, TX, January 14, 2000

  2. SUMMARY • UACJ libraries • Our metacataloguing objectives • Web site selection criteria • Internet growth in Mexico • Cataloguing challenges

  3. JUAREZ UNIVERSITY IN BRIEF • State Public University • 26 years old • 8,500 undergraduate students • Excellent telecommunication facilities • 9 Librarians • 3 Cataloguers • Largest library in Nortwestern Mexico • OCLC library member

  4. UACJ CORC OBJECTIVES • To satisfy web information user demand • To integrate web resources in its OPAC • To Strengthen OPAC as a main library retrieval tool • To fill a national gap in web resources cataloguing • To develop a metadata experience

  5. OUR CORC EFFORT • Started in late May 1999 • One part time student • Bilingual • No previous cataloguing experience • Supervised by a cataloguer • Took three months to kick off

  6. SELECTION CRITERIA • Web content relevance • Quality of website content • Information quality • Size of the web site • Prestige of the author • Reliability of the information • Updateness • Geo coverage: Mexico, Latin America

  7. METACATALOGUING CHECKLIST • Information source • Affiliation • Other webpages of the author • Comparison with other similar sites • Server host

  8. MAIN PROBLEMS • Web fast death rate • Internet connection • Lack of web page standards • Poor web content • Use of Spanish caracters • File backup

  9. MEXICAN INTERNET DOMAINS com.mx 15,607 org.mx 860 net.mx 500 edu.mx 452 gob.mx 395 Other 177

  10. INTERNET USE • Best access at universities • Private sector use is evolving • New interpersonal communication trend • E-mail and chat generate most use • Web pages creation is still limited • Web sites require more content

  11. LIMITATIONS • Limited feedback • No communication with other Spanish participants • Ongoing development of Dublin Core • No access to the whole CORC database

  12. OUR CATALOGUED WEBSITES • 152 Higher education / universities • 74 Federal government • 93 State of Chihuahua • 14 Legal institutions • 5 Ciudad Juárez • 25 Juárez University • 400 TOTAL RECORDS

  13. CONCLUSIONS • Number of good Mexican sites is limited • We will start including other Latin American sites • Our effort will benefit Mexican library users • CORC has been an ongoing learning process • We have greatly benefited from the CORC project VISIT US! www.uacj.mx

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