Searching for the library: University home page design and missing links

Information Technology and Libraries

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 93-99

  Astroff, Roberta ^a  

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References (23)

1. For a complete list of ARL members, see www.arl.org. This study excluded specialized research institutes, and analyzed only university and college home pages. Two universities, the University of Arizona and Texas A&M University, were both previewing new home pages. Their existing and their new pages were analyzed, bringing the total number of home pages analyzed to 111.
2. Andrew Dillon and Barbara Gushrowski, "Genres and the Web: Is the Personal Home Page the First Uniquely Digital Genre?" Accessed July 13, 1999, www-slis.lib.indiana.edu/ adillon/genre.html; citing Andrew Dillon and Misha Vaughan, "'It's the Journey and the Destination': Shape and the Emergent Property of Genre in Evaluating Digital Documents," New Review of Multimedia and Hypermedia 3 (1997): 91-106, www.slis.lib. indiana.edu/adillon/NewReviewPaper.html; Tom Erikson, "Why the Future of the Internet Has More to Do with Genre Blending than Gender Bending," Accessed Dec. 15, 1997, www.pliant.org/personal/Tom_Erickson/genreBlending.html.
3. Andrew Dillon and Barbara Gushrowski, "Genres and the Web: Is the Personal Home Page the First Uniquely Digital Genre?" Accessed July 13, 1999, www-slis.lib.indiana.edu/ adillon/genre.html; citing Andrew Dillon and Misha Vaughan, "'It's the Journey and the Destination': Shape and the Emergent Property of Genre in Evaluating Digital Documents," New Review of Multimedia and Hypermedia 3 (1997): 91-106, www.slis.lib. indiana.edu/adillon/NewReviewPaper.html; Tom Erikson, "Why the Future of the Internet Has More to Do with Genre Blending than Gender Bending," Accessed Dec. 15, 1997, www.pliant.org/personal/Tom_Erickson/genreBlending.html.
4. Andrew Dillon and Barbara Gushrowski, "Genres and the Web: Is the Personal Home Page the First Uniquely Digital Genre?" Accessed July 13, 1999, www-slis.lib.indiana.edu/ adillon/genre.html; citing Andrew Dillon and Misha Vaughan, "'It's the Journey and the Destination': Shape and the Emergent Property of Genre in Evaluating Digital Documents," New Review of Multimedia and Hypermedia 3 (1997): 91-106, www.slis.lib. indiana.edu/adillon/NewReviewPaper.html; Tom Erikson, "Why the Future of the Internet Has More to Do with Genre Blending than Gender Bending," Accessed Dec. 15, 1997, www.pliant.org/personal/Tom_Erickson/genreBlending.html.
5. For a useful summary of the history and variations of genre theory, see "Genre," in Key Concepts in Communication and Cultural Studies, 2d ed., ed. Tim O'Sullivan et al. (London: Routledge, 1994) and Daniel Chandler, "An Introduction to Genre Theory," Media and Communication Studies Site, Nov. 8, 1997. Accessed July 13, 1999, www.aber.ac.uk/media/index.html.
6. For a useful summary of the history and variations of genre theory, see "Genre," in Key Concepts in Communication and Cultural Studies, 2d ed., ed. Tim O'Sullivan et al. (London: Routledge, 1994) and Daniel Chandler, "An Introduction to Genre Theory," Media and Communication Studies Site, Nov. 8, 1997. Accessed July 13, 1999, www.aber.ac.uk/media/index.html.
7. Denis McQuail, Mass Communication Theory: An Introduction, 2d ed. (London: Sage, 1989), quoted in Chandler.
8. Todd Gitlin, Inside Prime Time (New York: Pantheon, 1985).
9. The term "recombinant genres" is Gitlin's.
10. Elizabeth Eisenstein, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, Communications, and Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge Univ. Pr., 1979.)
11. Dillon and Gushrowski. Their citations are to E. Reiffel, "The Genre of Mathematics Writing and It's [Sic] Implications for Digital Documents," in Proceedings of the 32d Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (Los Alamitos, Calif.: IEEE Computer Society, published on CD-ROM); Teun van Dijk and W. Kintsch, Strategies of Discourse Comprehension (London: Academic Press, 1983); Charles Bazerman, "Shaping Written Knowledge," in The Genre and Activity of the Experimental Article in Science (Madison, Wise.: Univ. of Wisconsin Pr., 1988); and Dillon and Vaughan.
12. Dillon and Gushrowski. Their citations are to E. Reiffel, "The Genre of Mathematics Writing and It's [Sic] Implications for Digital Documents," in Proceedings of the 32d Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (Los Alamitos, Calif.: IEEE Computer Society, published on CD-ROM); Teun van Dijk and W. Kintsch, Strategies of Discourse Comprehension (London: Academic Press, 1983); Charles Bazerman, "Shaping Written Knowledge," in The Genre and Activity of the Experimental Article in Science (Madison, Wise.: Univ. of Wisconsin Pr., 1988); and Dillon and Vaughan.
13. Dillon and Gushrowski. Their citations are to E. Reiffel, "The Genre of Mathematics Writing and It's [Sic] Implications for Digital Documents," in Proceedings of the 32d Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (Los Alamitos, Calif.: IEEE Computer Society, published on CD-ROM); Teun van Dijk and W. Kintsch, Strategies of Discourse Comprehension (London: Academic Press, 1983); Charles Bazerman, "Shaping Written Knowledge," in The Genre and Activity of the Experimental Article in Science (Madison, Wise.: Univ. of Wisconsin Pr., 1988); and Dillon and Vaughan.
14. John D'Angelo and Sherry K. Little, "Successful Web Pages: What Are They and Do They Exist?" Information Technology and Libraries 17 (June 1998): 71-81.
15. Henry Jenkins, Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture (New York: Routledge, 1992).
16. Dillon and Gushrowski (see note 2), citing Dillon and Vaughan.
17. George Lakoff, Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Pr., 1987); Roberto Poli, "Ontology for Knowledge Organization" in Advances in Knowledge Organization 5 (1996): 313-19; Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (New York: Pantheon, 1970); Hope Alene Olson, "Dewey Thinks Therefore He Is: The Epistemic Stance of Dewey and DDC," in Knowledge Organization and Change: Proceedings of teh Fourth International ISKO Conference 15-18 July 1996, Rebecca Green, ed. (Frankfort/Main: Indeks Verlag, 1996), 300-12.
18. George Lakoff, Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Pr., 1987); Roberto Poli, "Ontology for Knowledge Organization" in Advances in Knowledge Organization 5 (1996): 313-19; Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (New York: Pantheon, 1970); Hope Alene Olson, "Dewey Thinks Therefore He Is: The Epistemic Stance of Dewey and DDC," in Knowledge Organization and Change: Proceedings of teh Fourth International ISKO Conference 15-18 July 1996, Rebecca Green, ed. (Frankfort/Main: Indeks Verlag, 1996), 300-12.
19. George Lakoff, Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Pr., 1987); Roberto Poli, "Ontology for Knowledge Organization" in Advances in Knowledge Organization 5 (1996): 313-19; Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (New York: Pantheon, 1970); Hope Alene Olson, "Dewey Thinks Therefore He Is: The Epistemic Stance of Dewey and DDC," in Knowledge Organization and Change: Proceedings of teh Fourth International ISKO Conference 15-18 July 1996, Rebecca Green, ed. (Frankfort/Main: Indeks Verlag, 1996), 300-12.
20. George Lakoff, Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Pr., 1987); Roberto Poli, "Ontology for Knowledge Organization" in Advances in Knowledge Organization 5 (1996): 313-19; Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (New York: Pantheon, 1970); Hope Alene Olson, "Dewey Thinks Therefore He Is: The Epistemic Stance of Dewey and DDC," in Knowledge Organization and Change: Proceedings of teh Fourth International ISKO Conference 15-18 July 1996, Rebecca Green, ed. (Frankfort/Main: Indeks Verlag, 1996), 300-12.
21. The number adds up to more than thirteen because the groupings are sometimes larger than two. The University of Rochester (www.rochester.edu) has a link on its navigation bar to "Libraries, Info Technology, Art Museum" and the University of Southern California has a link to "Research, Libraries, Computing."
22. This is usually the case. When the search for a new university president started, a headline about the search was added below the photo. Now that a new president has been chosen, the date of her inauguration was announced under the photo.
23. As a reviewer pointed out, whether a user has to scroll to see an element on the page depends on the browser and the monitor settings. In this case however, the "print preview" function of the browser indicated four printed pages of links, with the link to the library at the bottom.