The book is focused on understanding the
currently functional status of library websites of
Research and Technical Institutions of India.
Webometric tools and techniques were deployed during
the course of the investigation. These included Web
Indicators, Sitebeam Web Analyzer Test Scores and
Web Impact Factors. The list of 105 Library Web
Indicators has been divided into 5 different blocks.
These five blocks are Resource, Service, Links,
Information and Design as well as Graphics. Web
Analyzers are another source used for evaluating the
websites. They evaluate indicators that cannot be
evaluated by human eyes. They also investigate back
links, broken links, external and internal links, page
speed, load time, mobile compatibility, domain age,
keyword consistency, Search Engine Optimization
(SEO) tools, hit counts, etc. A maximum of 100 web
pages of a library website were tested by Sitebeam Web
Analyzer. Each library website was tested on 26
individual test scores ranging from 0 to 10. Web Impact
Factors also provided detailed insights into the content,
structure and design of the library websites. The
feasibility and reliability of calculating the impact
factors for the website are called Web Impact Factor
(WIF). It contains quantitative indicators developed by
Ingwersen (1998). According to him, WIF is calculable
and reliable if processed by means of a series of inverted
but identical Boolean Operations with caution in order
to isolate and estimate the number of web pages
pointing to the pages at a given site. The book is a
milestone in this field giving explicit directions for
standardization of institutional library websites and
bringing them upto international levels of function and
operation.
Acknowledgements
Preface
1 Website Layout: Basic Structure
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Usability of a Website
1.3. Content and Readability of a Website
1.4. Aesthetics of a Website
1.5. SEO and Social Networking
1.6. Using a Library Website
1.7. Significance of Library Website Assessment
2 Webometrics : A Perspective
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Webometrics
2.3. Webometrics Analysis:
Institutional and Library Websites
2.4. Extrapolation
3 Webometric Techniques: Web Indicators, Web
Impact Factors and Web Analyzer Test Scores
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Web Indicators
3.3. Web Impact Factors
3.4. Web Analyzer Test Scores
4 Library Websites: Qualitative and
Quantitative Assessment
4.1. Introduction
4.2. List of Library Websites
4.3. Library Websites : Assessment
5 Implications of Library Website Assessment
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Observations
5.3. Steps for Increasing Visibility of a Library Website
5.4. Future Prospects
References
Dr. Shalini Wasan, PhD in Library and
Information Science, is working as a Senior Librarian,
Chandigarh College of Engg. & Tech (CCET Degree
Wing), Chandigarh w.e.f October 2011. She is a
graduate from Govt. Girls College, Chandigarh. She
completed M.A. (Economics), M.Lib. and Inf. Sc.,
PGDLAN. She qualified UGC-NET and completed her
PhD. from Panjab University, Chandigarh. Her areas
of interest include Webometrics, Higher Education
Ranking, ICT in Libraries, Library Automation,
Institutional Repositories (IRs), Web 2.0 and Web 3.0;
Web Scale Discovery Services, Massive Open Online
Courses (MOOCs), Radio Frequency Identification
(RFID), Open Source Softwares, Anti Plagiarism
Softwares, Consortium, Networking, Knowledge
Management, Information Literacy and National
Knowledge Network. Dr. Shalini is nominated as
Editorial Board Member of International Journals and
is a reviewer of The Electronic Library (Emerald). Dr.
Shalini has about 35 research papers to her credit
which are published in research journals, conference
proceedings and as book chapters with several of them
being honoured with Best Paper Awards. She has
attended various conferences, seminars, workshops
etc. at the regional, national and international levels.
Recently she has initiated the library website of her
college.
