Weaving a Web of Precious Materials: Hyperlinks to, from and between Some Special Collections Libraries

Public Deposited
Analytics

Downloadable Content

Download PDF
Request Version for Screen Reader
Last Modified
  • February 28, 2019
Creator
  • Belden, Diana M.
    • Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
Abstract
  • This paper examines the hyperlinks to, from and between 111 special collections libraries whose parent (university) libraries belong to the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). I collected inlinks using the Alta Vista search engine, and outlinks by hand. The resulting data was examined to determine outlink targets, and to test correlations between link counts and quality rankings, geographic proximity, and collection strengths. Most outlinks from these libraries go to universities, government agencies and commercial sites, usually to institutional or divisional home pages. Top outlinkers connect users to important sites, like the Library of Congress and the National Archives and Records Administration. ARL ranking of parent library shows a slight positive correlation with number of inlinks, but does not correlate with number of outlinks. Some geographic regions interlink more than others. Finally, these libraries could be linking to each other much more based on shared collection strengths.
Date of publication
Subject
DOI
Resource type
Rights statement
  • In Copyright
Advisor
  • Lee, Christopher
Degree granting institution
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Language
Extent
  • 69 p.
Access right
  • Open access
Date uploaded
  • December 10, 2010

Relations

Parents:

This work has no parents.

Items

Thumbnail Title Date Uploaded Visibility Actions
file details Weaving a Web of Precious Materials: Hyperlinks to, from and between Some Special Collections Libraries. 2019-05-14 Public Download