Libweb Submission

Due to a number of off-target requests, I have found it necessary to specify what the Libweb lists are intended to include and--more to the point--what they are not intended to include.

Libweb is offered as a service to the library community, providing links to library information servers on the World Wide Web. While the boundaries of the web are hard to define, I am specifically not tracking gopher servers, online catalogs, web-to-OPAC gateways, or ftp archives. There are other people tracking these projects, and doing a better job of it than I could.

I am also tracking links only for officially endorsed web sites at "real world" libraries. I occasionally receive requests to include sites which the library in question does not sponsor or even, in some cases, know about. I also receive requests to include "virtual library" projects or Internet subject guides. While some of these projects are very interesting and ambitious, they fall outside the scope of Libweb. The company information I track includes firms who primarily work with the library community, especially in providing electronic information services; I do not automatically include publishers.

I also receive occasional requests to list branch libraries at large, decentralized library systems. My preference is to provide a single link to an institution's main library page unless this does not provide adequate access (the main library and the law library haven't spoken since 1958 and no links go between their pages) or does not reflect the real situation (the medical school is located 75 miles away and is only part of the same institution in an administrative sense).

This is a:
New submission
Revised entry

Institution name:

Library Home Page URL:

Location (e.g. Madison, WI or Geneva, Switzerland):

Library type: Consortial membership (if any):

AKA

(If your institution is most commonly called something other than its official name--i.e. MIT instead of Massachusetts Institute of Technology--please include that here. If your institution's name is in a language other than English, I will probably use the Name field for an English rendering--e.g. University of Hamburg--and use the AKA field for the original language--e.g. Universitaet Hamburg.)

"Despite the well-known and -understood nebulous nature of Web development projects, I believe that this home page is an official project of its institution, that it is ready to be included on a publicly available list like Libweb, and that I have permission to submit this entry. My name is and my e-mail address is "

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Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK
tdowling@ohiolink.edu