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Portals, Ready Reference, and Libraries

Portals, Ready Reference, and Libraries. Access Evaluation Organization. Access. Search industry and libraries facilitate access to online information. Portals are the search industry’s answer library collections

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Portals, Ready Reference, and Libraries

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  1. Portals, Ready Reference, and Libraries Access Evaluation Organization

  2. Access • Search industry and libraries facilitate access to online information. • Portals are the search industry’s answer library collections • Libraries use, organize, and collect web information too. Portals are usually just called “library home pages.” Or sometimes “ready reference collections.”

  3. Portals • Sites that contain a search function, but also services such as free email, free home pages, maps, phone books, email, directories, news, and company information, etc. ("sticky" features) • They want to be your entry to EVERYTHING on the Web, not just searching

  4. Portals Examples: • Yahoo • Myway.com • msn.com • Aol.com

  5. Library homepages • Provide access to a number of resources, too…more than just the free web!: • Example UC-Berkeley Libraries http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ • A hybrid: Refdesk.com http://www.refdesk.com/

  6. Ready Reference Collections Collection of online ready reference sources also facilitate access: • City College of San Francisco http://www.ccsf.org/Library/readyref.html • Wilton Library http://www.wiltonlibrary.org/ref.asp • Loyola University http://www.loyno.edu/~hobbs/readyreference.html • University of Oklahoma http://www.ou.edu/webhelp/rr/ • DeskRef http://www.rcls.org/deskref/

  7. Librarians And then, of course, we have the living, breathing, walking, INTELLIGENT guide to all the Web…and more!:

  8. Organizing • Use these pre-made resources (portals, library home pages, ready reference collections) or organize your own • Useful for personal reference • Useful when compiling a collection for patrons/customers

  9. Organizing Finding sites • Bookmark sites you find as you are searching • Search the invisible web • Look for meta sites or other authorities on your topic • Evaluate all sites for yourself

  10. How to Evaluate a Web Page Evaluating content from the user's perspective, not design principles, but authority/accuracy • Who maintains the content? • What is the content provider’s authority? • Is there bias? • Examine the URL (who owns the URL?) • Examine outbound links • Examine who links to it • Is the information current? • Use common sense

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