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!!
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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