- Collaborating over the Web: Libraries and Laboratories
- Introduction
- Laboratory Web Architecture
- Goals and Implications
- Goals for the overall organization were:
- Goals for the home page itself were:
- Some implications of these goals were:
- Content and Structural Drivers
- The role of the Laboratory Directorate had to be recognized:
- The role of the web in the life of experiments and their support had to be recognized:
- The role of the home page in presenting information to the public had to be recognized:
- The relationship between the home page and technical publication had to be clarified:
- The varied view points of those browsing home page had to be addressed:
- Effect of Drivers
- Fermilab top level page and immediate subsidiary pages:
- Collaboration and Support Group pages:
- Consequences:
- Library Web Architecture
- Overview:
- Goals and their Implications
- Immediacy of access to information resources:
- Relevancy, both in content and format, to reader and laboratory information needs:
- Centralization and marketing of Library resources:
- Empowerment of the Library staff to author their own web information sources:
- Content and Structural Drivers
- Reader Interest:
- Organizing the web:
- Hardware/Software Availability:
- Implications for Libraries and Library Administrators
- Involvement of the Library Staff in the Web Architecture
- Make Sure there is an Understanding of Basic Concepts:
- Encourage Interaction between Librarian Staff and Computing Professionals:
- Support the Provision of Continuous Training and Access to Developments in Technology:
- New Face of Library Services
- New Role for Libraries within Institutions and Communities
- The Next Phase of Library Automation
- Broader Implications
- Conclusion
- References
- Hypertext References
- Footnotes