Discovering Content Pattern of the Library Web Sites

1. Discovering Content Pattern of the Library Web Sites Jadranka Stojanovski Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia http://library.irb.hr jadranka.stojanovski@irb.hr

2. “No stereotype of libraries as quiet, uneventful places could survive the 1990’s. Whatever stability and predictability libraries once had as ordered storehouses of the treasures of the printed word were shattered by the digital revolution. The intellectual function of libraries -- to acquire, arrange, and make accessible the creative work of humankind -- is being transformed by the explosion in the production and dissemination of information in digital form, especially over global networks.” LC - 21: A Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress

3. Who are our users? • students • faculty/employees • researchers & scientists • staff of the university/institute • local community – general public • librarians • international audience ...

4. From RBI log files analysis • RBI library Web site (10th anniversary!) with 1500 visits/day • 23,93%employees of Ruđer Bošković Institute • Croatian Universities - 10% of total accesses • different institutes and hospitals take part with about 2,5% • main Croatian companies like “Pliva”, “Ina” and “Podravka” are participating with 0,6% • in spite of the fact that all Web pages are both in Croatian and English language since 1994 - only 31% of total hits are assigned to visitors that come outside “.hr” domain

5. Web site evaluation • Purpose or focus of the Web site • Audience or target for the Web site • Access to information on the site • Logical design or construction of the site • Visual design considerations • Site information

6. Selection process • Purpose or focus of the Web site • to support scientific research and HE • Audience or target for the Web site • scientists • teachers • students • Access to information on the site • free

7. Selection • Google advanced search • Language = English • “lib” or “library” in URL • limit to country domain (.at, .hr, .it, .hu, .fi, .cz, .ie, .de, .uk, .si) • first five scientific libraries were selected • library must have its own directory in the HTML tree structure of the institution or its own domain • library must have the English version of Web site • national libraries are not included

8. 10 European countries • Austria • Croatia • Czech Republic • Hungary • Finland • Germany • Ireland • Italy • Slovenia • UK

9. hr American College of Management and Technology Faculty of Graphic Arts Faculty of Special Education and Rehabilitation Ruđer Bošković Institute Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries at Research Institute of Molecular Pathology Research Institute for Symbolic Computation Institut für Computergraphik und Algorithmen University of Graz Mozarteum University Library it The Abdus Salam ICTP Library Free University of Bozen The Johns Hopkins University SISSA Library Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ISTI) hu Central European University Library MTA SZTAKI is the Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences KFKI campus University of Veszprém Library of the Institute of Enzymology fi Helsinky University Library Joensuu University Institute of Technology Vaasa Polytechnic Helia, Helsinki Business Polytechnic cz CERGE-EI Library English College in Prague Resource Centre Institute of Physics University Library International Baptist Theological Seminary si Central Technological Library Nova Gorica Polytechnic University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Department of Physics, Astronomical Observatory University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Zootechnical Department Faculry of Medicine, Central Medical Library ie Trinity College Library Dublin University College Cork NUI Maynooth Library Online University of Limerick Dublin City University uk Bodleian Library, University of Oxford Cambridge University Library John Rylands University Library of Manchester University of Edinburgh Glasgow University Library de DESY Library The Szilárd Library at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) Friedrich Ebert Foundation University of Heidelberg Academic and research institute’s libraries

10. Xenu’s Link Sleuth as robot tool • multi-threaded spidering software that checks Web sites for broken links • robot modified for that purpose (thanks Tilman!) • it is free, works extremely fast and gives a useful output with the link title listed in the same order of the links that are given on the page

11. Link description • URL address • status • type • size • title • date • level • links out • links in • server • error

12. List of categories • single-concept descriptors, easy to assign (this approach sacrifices term relationships and context) • 22 main categories/concepts were defined • experience from ten years of the RBI web site • Xenu reports were filtered using C++ program – adding sub-terms from Web sites into categories

13. INFO ASK LIBRARIAN NEWS REFERENCE LIBRARY COLLECTIONS ELECTRONIC RESOURCES DIGITAL LIBRARY CATALOGUES SUBJECT GATEWAYS SEARCHING SEARCH ENGINES ACCESS SERVICES CIRCULATION AND ILL EDUCATION EDUCATION SUPPORT INFRASTRUCTURE AND EQUIPMENT PUBLISHING FILE FORMATS LIS ENTERTAINMENT OTHER

15. ADDRESS LOCATION OF THE LIBRARY VIRTUAL TOUR FLOOR PLAN PARKING PHOTOCOPYING CHARGES HOLDINGS DESCRIPTION TERMS & CONDITIONS CONDITIONS OF USE LIBRARY RECORD REGULATION RULE FEES WELCOME TO THE LIBRARY BASIC INFORMATION ON USING THE LIBRARY INFORMATION ABOUT VISITOR INFORMATION GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE LIBRARY INFO ABOUT ABOUT THE VISIT US ABOUT US General info (1)

16. OPENING HOURS LIBRARY STAFF DISABILITIES STATISTICS CONTACT CONTACT US FEEDBACK STAFF QUESTIONS & ANSWER FAQ SURVIVAL GUIDE READER'S GUIDE FURTHER ASSISTANCE FINDING AID A TO Z INDEX A TO Z GUIDE POLICY STRATEGY DISCLAIMER PRIVACY POLICY LIBRARY MISSION MISSION General info (2)

17. Info - policies

18. General-info pages lack: • guides, assistance, finding aids • welcome to the library • basic information • visitor information

19. Collections

20. E-”packages”

21. Collection – reference library

22. Catalogs

23. Search engines

24. Education

25. Education • educational content offered through library web pages is not connected enough with education process at the university • libraries should cooperate with teachers in order to provide better support to students • syllabus, curriculum, exams, teach*... should be more used • lack of tutorials

26. Infrastructure & equipment

27. Entertainment

28. LIS issues

29. Patterns

30. Future analysis • more libraries • richer vocabulary / more labels • controlled vocabulary or thesaurus (synonym and homograph control) • level should be included • position on the web page (?) • ... • everyone is invited to cooperate 

31. Nick Berg – execution video War in Iraq – prisoner abuse Paris Hilton – video star Clay Aiken – America’s idol Britney Spears KaZaA Pam Anderson Dragonball WWE – Divas fight Brooke Burke – calendar star Poker – celebrity showdown Baseball – MLB Atkins Diet South Beach Diet Weight Watchers Amierican idol Dindsay Lohan Neopets – virtual world Harry Potter Jessica Simpson – summer tour Pokemon – card play Usher – confessions Las Vegas The Bible Final Fantasy Hilary Duff Princess Diana – crash photos The Olsen Twins Marijuana – wacky weed Lycos Top 50

32. PDF SPIRES JOURNAL MAP LINK BUSINESS SEARCH HTML PS SERVICE COLLECTION PHYSICS NEWS RESOURCE BOOK WORLD COLLEGE DATABASE EDUCATION HELP HEALTH PUBMED REPORT ENGINEERING HISTORY LIBRARIES LANGUAGE STUDENT CHEMISTRY MEDICINE CONFERENCE EBSCOHOST DIRECTORY SCHOOL CONTACT COMPUTER PUBLISHER ART REGISTER JSTOR POLICY THESIS SUBSCRIPTION BIOLOGY CATALOGUE JOB NETWORK DICTIONARY CONTACT US “Top web library site terms”

33. “Cheshire Cat,” Alice began, “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat. Lewis Carroll