World Wide
Web or popularly called as the Web is a revolutionary invention and amazes us
with its growth and applications. The traffic over Web has increased many
folds in the last few years due to communication among people through various
kinds of websites as channels. Using metrics, estimations can be made for the
number of people connected with Internet and the content they are sharing and
are interested in. Online tools like search engines and traffic and usage
analyzers are used for measuring the growth of the Web and falls under the
purview of Webometrics. The established measures for Webometrics are, Link
Analysis (including Web Impact Factor analysis), URL Analysis, Web Citation
Analysis and Web Content Analysis. Webometrics analyses hyperlinks, hyperlink
types, hyperlink structure, and usage of the Web.
Web Impact
Factor (WIF) is an important parameter in Webometric studies. The present book
presents application of WIF towards measuring quality of library
websites. The book is presented with detailed examples of Indian
Institutes and the WIF of their library websites. It presents ranking of
websites and method of conducting comparative studies of the websites. Websites
for libraries are a good medium through which knowledge can be disseminated. The
content of Library websites depend on the library collection, services,
facilities etc. Content awareness of library websites indicate qualitative and
quantitative aspects of information provided by the libraries to the users and
it can be a method for measuring usefulness of library websites. The book
suggests method of accessing content awareness and improving visibility of
library website.
Akhandanand
Shukla, Ph. D. in Library & Information Science, is
working as Assistant Professor at Department of Library & Information
Science, Mizoram University, Aizawl from July 2010. He is graduate of
Purvanchal University, Jaunpur with B.Sc. in 2003. He studied BLIS (2004), M.
Lib. & Inf. Sc. (2005), and Ph.D. (2009) from Banaras Hindu University,
Varanasi. Dr. Shukla was a Gold Medalist of BHU, Varanasi in M. Lib. & Inf.
Sc. He also qualified the national level UGC research fellowship (UGC-JRF) in
2005 and continued research till 2009 as SRF. His areas of specialization and
research interest are Webometrics, Digital Library, Bibliometrics, Information
Technology, and Classification Theory. Dr. Shukla has about 30 research papers
in his credit published in the form of research journals, conference
proceedings, and book chapters of national and international repute. Besides
this, Dr. Shukla has also attended about 30 conferences, seminars, workshops
etc. of regional, national and international level. Dr. Shukla is nominated as
editorial board member/reviewer of 3 reputed LIS journals of national and
international repute. He has supervised about 7 scholars for their dissertation
work at MLIS & M. Phil. and presently 4 scholars are pursuing their
dissertation work under him at M. Phil. & Ph. D. level. Dr. Shukla has life
membership of professional associations like ILA, IASLIC and IATLIS. Besides
these, he is the member/coordinator of various administrative bodies at the
department and university level.
Aditya Tripathi is Assistant Professor in Department
of Library and Information Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He has
been teaching in the Department for last 11 years. He has done his Associateship in
Documentation & Information Science (ADIS) from Documentation Research and
Training Centre (DRTC), Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore and Doctorate
from Pune University, Pune. He was Senior Research Fellow at DRTC, Indian
Statistical Institute, Bangalore.
His
areas of interest are Digital Libraries, Information Retrieval System, Webometrics
studies, Quality Assurance to libraries etc. He has more than 35 research
publications in various national and internationals journals and conferences
and three books to his credit. He has contributed several chapters in
M.Lib.I.Sc, B.Lib.ISc and PGDLAN course of Indira Gandhi National Open
University (IGNOU), New Delhi. He has traveled widely across India and abroad
as resources person to several conferences, seminars and workshops. He has been
awarded as Best Young Teacher by Indian Association of Special Libraries and
Information Centres (IASLIC).
