World Wide Web home page design: Patterns and anomalies of higher education library home pages

Abstract

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The Heart of the University: Library Link Location on Doctoral Granting Institutions Webpages and Correlation with Research Output

“…Studies are listed in chronological order. Stover and Zink (1996) used a point-based system to rank higher education institution library homepages and addressed whether links to the library were to be found on parent institutions' home pages. Forty institutions were studied, including 37 universities and three colleges in the United States and Canada.…”

Library Homepage Design at Medium-Sized Institutions

“…Blummer (2007) noted, these have been infrequently conducted. Examples of such studies include those by Mark Stover and Steven D. Zink (1996), David King (1998), andPamela Harpel-Burke (2005). The second category consisted of studies focusing on "one or more closely related design or content elements" (Jones and Leonard 2011, 25).…”

The importance of aggregators for libraries in the digital era

“…This would allow the library to classify them by both type of resource and by subject matter, which would seem much more useful to users than a series of package labels. Some libraries are already beginning this process and are making their contents more accessible to users (Stover and Sink, 1996). Reference librarians can choose appropriate content from a range of information vendors and link this content as desired.…”