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The London Institute’s i page: creating and maintaining an academic gateway website

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Elizabeth Lawes*
Affiliation:
The Library, Chelsea College of Art & Design, Manresa Road, London SW3 6LS, UK
Jessica Crilly*
Affiliation:
The Library, London College of Fashion, 20 John Princes Street, London W1G 0BJ, UK
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Abstract

This overview of the London Institute Library and Learning Resources website, the i page, focuses in particular on issues involved in selecting and evaluating high quality resources in an academic context. The article begins by detailing the philosophy, design and initial construction of the site, and gives an outline of the structure. The most heavily used section of the i page is the web guides and the evaluation criteria applied to web resources selected for inclusion are examined, with reference to the digital art web guide. The main criteria of content, structure, authority and subjectivity are looked at in detail. The process of user feedback is highlighted and, as the site is now over two years old, pertinent issues relating to its future growth and development are also discussed.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2002

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