URLs in the OPAC: Integrating or disintegrating research libraries' catalogs

Burke, Gerald; Germain, Carol Anne; Ullen, Mary K. Van

doi:10.1016/s0099-1333(03)00068-5

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“…Notess (2000) and Bibb (2002) documented problems with the currency and findability of electronic government documents. Burke, Germain, and Van Ullen (2003) also had a high percentage of .gov/.mil errors; their study was conducted from October 2001 through May 2002, and they suggest that "a better solution may be found at the federal level" (p. 295). Since their findings also fly in the face of the older studies (except for Notess and Bibb) had some influence on the availability of government resources that were posted before that event.…”

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“…This is not a new issue; Porter and Bayard (1999) discussed a project at Notre Dame in which selection policies were carefully drafted and implemented for free online resources. The matter was also addressed by Burke, Germain, and Van Ullen (2003) and Koehler (2002). Collection development policies are just as critical, if not more so, for online resources, both free and purchased, as they are for physical materials.…”

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“…He posits that careful selection of resources can moderate the rate of decline from the beginning (2002, p. 170). Burke, Germain, and Van Ullen (2003) examined URLs for free online resources that were available in the OPACs of 24 ARL libraries. They checked for permanence and content, that is, whether the links worked and whether the content matched the bibliographic records in the OPACs.…”

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Rotten But Not Forgotten

Strader¹,

Hamill²

2007

The Serials Librarian

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In late 2002 and early 2003, the Serials and ElectronicResources Department of The Ohio State University Libraries collected for correction a total of 864 nonfunctional URLs in bibliographic records for electronic resources on subscription. This paper identifies the types of errors found and reports the proportion of success versus failure to correct the URLs and restore access to the affected titles. Of the URLs examined, 54% were from .gov websites, with the remainder evenly distributed between .edu, .org, .com, and other websites. The high proportion of nonfunctional government (.gov) URLs may be due to the period of collections and might have been affected by the September 11, 2001 attack. Overall, 15% of the affected URLs ultimately did not require changes; 70% required some type of correction; and 14% could not C. Rockelle Strader, formerly Electronic Resources Manager, is currently Assistant Professor and Catalog Librarian,

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Rotten But Not Forgotten

Strader¹,

Hamill²

2007

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“…However, they lacked the resources to do this, and the literature emphasised internal stakeholders. Burke et al (2003) went beyond description by including an investigation into the effect of staffing on the web sites produced. Testing the reliability of links to free internet resources provided by academic libraries revealed that a large proportion had a significant numbers of errors.…”

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Stakeholder involvement in the development and maintenance of web sites for children

Coomes¹,

Liew

2007

Online Information Review

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -The purpose of this article is to investigate how public and state libraries are responding to research recommendations that the usability of a web site for children is improved by involving a wide range of stakeholders and particularly the end-users, in its creation. Design/methodology/approach -The study employs a self-administered, structured e-mail questionnaire.Findings -The development of children's web pages is usually the responsibility of teams of internal stakeholders, with the librarians responsible overall for the library web site being involved most, followed by children's librarians. Other library staff, information technology staff from the parent organisation and external experts made smaller contributions. The target group of children were less involved and took informal, indirect roles, rather than the direct, formal roles recommended by research.Research limitations/implications -The sample size is small and includes only children's web pages in Australia and New Zealand. Originality/value -The paper presents a valuable analysis of stakeholder involvement in the development and maintenance of web sites for children among state and public libraries in Australia and New Zealand.

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“…25 They found that few libraries in their study had time to devote to systematic and proactive URL maintenance.…”

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Knowing Where They Went: Six Years of Online Access Statistics via the Online Catalog for Federal Government Information

Brown

2011

CRL

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. © Christopher C. Brown As federal government information is increasingly migrating to online formats, libraries are providing links to this content via URLs or persistent URLs (PURLs) in their online public access catalogs (OPACs). Clickthrough statistics that accumulated as users visited links to online content in the University of Denver's library OPAC were gathered over a six-year period and were analyzed. Among the conclusions were that DU users prefer online content over print for both newer and older documents and that there is great benefit in adding URLs above and beyond the URLs supplied by GPO cataloging.

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URLs in the OPAC: Integrating or disintegrating research libraries' catalogs

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Rotten But Not Forgotten

Rotten But Not Forgotten

Stakeholder involvement in the development and maintenance of web sites for children

Knowing Where They Went: Six Years of Online Access Statistics via the Online Catalog for Federal Government Information

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