ASSOCIATES (vol. 4, no. 3, March 1998) - associates.ucr.edu
*THE INTERNET GURU* by Dr. Brad Eden Coordinator of Technical Services/Automated Library Services North Harris Montgomery Community College District Houston, Texas beden@nhmccd.edu Wow, what a mild winter we have been having (at least here in Texas). The weather has been a balmy 50-60 degrees, and the El Nino weather has not been too bad. Since the Internet is becoming more and more integrated in library services, some of you may have responsibility (or would like the opportunity) to find, select, and catalog Internet resources. I have compiled a list of web sites that will assist the beginning and the advanced Internet searcher in evaluating web sites for inclusion in their library catalog. Some of you may also have responsibility for designing and maintaining web pages for your library or department. I have also included some web design sites below. As always, these addresses were current as of the writing of this column, but may have moved or disappeared during the time lag. If there are subjects or topics of interest that you would like to see addressed in this column, please contact me at beden@nhmccd.edu. I would be happy to compile a list of resources on any topic of interest. Enjoy these sites, and keep exploring the Internet!! ******************** Hope Tillman's "Evaluating Quality on the Net" at http://www.tiac.net/users/hope/findqual.html Carolyn Caywood's article Library Selection Criteria for WWW Resources http://www6.pilot.infi.net/~carolyn/criteria.html Two sites that discuss the usability of a site http://www.acm.org/sigchi/webhci/chi97testing/particip.htm http://www-nlpir.nist.gov/~downey/ ALA's The Librarian's Guide To Cyberspace for Parents & Kids gives criteria: http://www.ssdesign.com/parentspage/greatsites/select.html Jeff Beck's evaluation of Internet resources http://www.wabash.edu/library/libgui/EVAINT.HTM Bibliography on evaluating internet resources http://refserver.lib.vt.edu/libinst/critTHINK.HTM WebPages That Suck http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com Evaluating World Wide Web Information http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/research/classes/gs175/3gs175/ evaluation.html Why the web sucks http://www.spies.com/~ceej/Words/rant.web.html Web Evaluation: Criteria http://lib.nmsu.edu/staff/susabeck/evalcrit.html The criteria are accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency, coverage - and includes examples Evaluation Web Resources http://www.science.widener.edu/~withers/webeval.htm Provides materials to assist in the teaching of how to evaluate Web resources. Useful evaluation checklists for Advocacy, Business/Marketing, Informational News, and Personal Web pages. Evaluation of Information Sources http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~agsmith/evaln/evaln.htm A Webliography of sites that tell how to evaluate sites. Evaluating Internet Research Sources http://www.sccu.edu/faculty/R_Harris/evalu8it.htm Web Design for Librarians http://scc01.rutgers.edu/SCCHome/web.htm Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/index.html HTML Writers Guild http://www.hwg.org Alan Richmond's archives and links to all things HTML and web-related. http://www.stars.com/ Sun's Style Guide http://www.sun.com/styleguide/ THE SEVEN KEYS TO EFFECTIVE WEB SITES http://csis.pace.edu/~dsachs/7keys.html Web Developer's Virtual Library(lots of information) http://www.wdvl.com/ All Things Web. (Lots of Info) http://www.pantos.org/ATW/ How to Create Web Pages: a Webliography http://infopeople.berkeley.edu:8000/Howto/htmlnote.html