portals, ready reference, and libraries access evaluation organization
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Portals, Ready Reference, and LibrariesAccessEvaluationOrganization
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.”
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
Portals
Examples: Yahoo Myway.com msn.com Aol.com
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/
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/
Librarians
And then, of course, we have the living, breathing, walking, INTELLIGENT guide to all the Web…and more!:
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
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
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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