Discovering Content Pattern of the Library Web Sites

Jadranka StojanovskiRuđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatiahttp://library.irb.hrjadranka.stojanovski@irb.hr

“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

Who are our users?

students faculty/employees researchers & scientists staff of the university/institute local community – general public librarians international audience

...

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

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 informationSite information

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

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

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

Academic and research institute’s libraries

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

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

Link description

• URL address• status• type• size

• title

• date• level• links out• links in• server• error

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

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

NUMBER OF LINKS BY CATEGORY

0 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 12000 14000

AUSTRIA

CROATIA

CZECH REP.

FINLAND

GERMANY

HUNGARY

IRELAND

ITALY

SLOVENIA

UK

INFO ASK LIBRARIAN NEWS

REFERENCE LIBRARY COLLECTIONS ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

DIGITAL LIBRARY CATALOGUES SUBJECT GATEWAYS

SERVICES CIRCULATION AND ILL SEARCHING

SEARCH ENGINES EDUCATION EDUCATION SUPPORT

PUBLISHING INFRASTRUCTURE AND EQUIPMENT ACCESS

FILE FORMATS LIS ENTERTAINMENT

OTHER

General info (1) 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 (2)

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

Info - policies

0 50 100 150 200 250

AUSTRIA

CROATIA

CZECH REP.

FINLAND

GERMANY

HUNGARY

IRELAND

ITALY

SLOVENIA

UK

POLICY STRATEGY DISCLAIMERPRIVACY POLICY LIBRARY MISSION MISSION

General-info pages lack:

guides, assistance, finding aids welcome to the library basic information visitor information

Collections

0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900

AUSTRIA

CROATIA

CZECH REP.

FINLAND

GERMANY

HUNGARY

IRELAND

ITALY

SLOVENIA

UK

BIBLIOGRAPHY PERIODICAL JOURNAL THESIS BOOK

E-”packages”

0 100 200 300 400 500 600

SCIENCEDIRECT

SPRINGERLINK

SWETSWISE

EBSCOHOST

EMERALD

PUBMED

KLUWER

JSTOR

SLAC

AUSTRIA

CROATIA

CZECH REP.

FINLAND

GERMANY

HUNGARY

IRELAND

ITALY

SLOVENIA

UK

Collection – reference library

0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000

AUSTRIA

CROATIA

CZECH REP.

FINLAND

GERMANY

HUNGARY

IRELAND

ITALY

SLOVENIA

UK

ENCYCLOPEDIA DICTIONARY LIBRARIES

DIRECTORY STANDARD HANDBOOK

COLLEGE SCHOOL MAP

Catalogs

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

AUSTRIA CROATIA CZECH REP. FINLAND GERMANY HUNGARY IRELAND ITALY SLOVENIA UK

CATALOGUE CATALOG OPAC

Search engines

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

AUSTRIA CROATIA CZECH REP. FINLAND GERMANY HUNGARY IRELAND ITALY SLOVENIA UK

SEARCH ENGINE ALTAVISTA GOOGLE YAHOO

Education

0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700

INTRODUCTION TO

INSTRUCTION

EVALUATION

EDUCATION

WORKSHOP

TRAINING

LEARNING

SEMINAR

HOW TO

COURSE

HELP

AUSTRIA

CROATIA

CZECH REP.

FINLAND

GERMANY

HUNGARY

IRELAND

ITALY

SLOVENIA

UK

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

Infrastructure & equipment

0 50 100 150 200 250 300

AUSTRIA

CROATIA

CZECH REP.

FINLAND

GERMANY

HUNGARY

IRELAND

ITALY

SLOVENIA

UK

PHOTOCOPYING WIRELESS NOTEBOOK COMPUTERPRINTER LAPTOP NETWORK

Entertainment

0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700

SHOPPING

PERSONAL

SPORTS

NATION

HEALTH

WORLD

GAME

JOB

TV

AUSTRIA

CROATIA

CZECH REP.

FINLAND

GERMANY

HUNGARY

IRELAND

ITALY

SLOVENIA

UK

LIS issues

0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350

VIRTUAL LIBRARY

LIBRARY PROJECT

CLASSIFICATION

COPYRIGHT LAW

SUBSCRIPTION

SITE LICENCE

CATALOGUING

THESAURUS

HOLDING

BINDING

ACQUISITION

AUSTRIA

CROATIA

CZECH REP.

FINLAND

GERMANY

HUNGARY

IRELAND

ITALY

SLOVENIA

UK

Patterns

CATEGORY 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th

SUBJECT GATEWAYS 5 2   2       1  

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES 2 1     1 3     1

REFERENCE LIBRARY 1 1 2 1 1   1   1

COLLECTIONS   1 3 1 3     2 1

INFO   1   1   2 2 1  

EDUCATION     1     1 3 1 1

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

Lycos Top 50 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

“Top web library site terms” 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

“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