Sustainability through website development: the case of public libraries in Malaysia

With the introduction of the World Wide Web and gra phical browsers in the 1990s the Internet has become widely accessible and many people have grabbed the idea of using it for their multifarious purposes and age nda The library website is the most important window and the gateway for interact...

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Main Authors: Abu Bakar, Ahmad Bakeri, J., Putri N. L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: ISAST 2013
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spelling iium-351882014-07-22T03:24:36Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/35188/ Sustainability through website development: the case of public libraries in Malaysia Abu Bakar, Ahmad Bakeri J., Putri N. L. T10.5 Communication of technical information Z665 Library Science. Information Science With the introduction of the World Wide Web and gra phical browsers in the 1990s the Internet has become widely accessible and many people have grabbed the idea of using it for their multifarious purposes and age nda The library website is the most important window and the gateway for interactivity with the publics. So much so that higher quality websites tend to exhibit high traffi c pattern and are capable of attracting more links and thereby rendered those websites as h ighly visible. The question of visibility and accessibility is the refore important for any type of websites and should be addressed painstakingly with the noti on that sustainable development of the website may assist the library in reaching its goals. Through the development of quality websites libraries in Western countries are able to sustain their growth through generating income through charges, particularly for access to unique materials, making it attractive to sponsors or making it possible for t hird parties to deliver their own services based on website contents. It is the purpose of thi s paper to study on the question of visibility and accessibility of the websites of sel ected public libraries in Malaysia through the use of two major software, Alexa and EvaAcess . ISAST 2013 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/35188/1/2110QQML_Journal_2013_Abu_Bakar_87-92%281%29.pdf Abu Bakar, Ahmad Bakeri and J., Putri N. L. (2013) Sustainability through website development: the case of public libraries in Malaysia. Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries ( QQML ) , March (1). pp. 87-92. ISSN 2241-1925 http://www.qqml.net/papers/March_2013_Issue/2110QQML_Journal_2013_Abu_Bakar_87-92.pdf
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Z665 Library Science. Information Science
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Z665 Library Science. Information Science
Abu Bakar, Ahmad Bakeri
J., Putri N. L.
Sustainability through website development: the case of public libraries in Malaysia
description With the introduction of the World Wide Web and gra phical browsers in the 1990s the Internet has become widely accessible and many people have grabbed the idea of using it for their multifarious purposes and age nda The library website is the most important window and the gateway for interactivity with the publics. So much so that higher quality websites tend to exhibit high traffi c pattern and are capable of attracting more links and thereby rendered those websites as h ighly visible. The question of visibility and accessibility is the refore important for any type of websites and should be addressed painstakingly with the noti on that sustainable development of the website may assist the library in reaching its goals. Through the development of quality websites libraries in Western countries are able to sustain their growth through generating income through charges, particularly for access to unique materials, making it attractive to sponsors or making it possible for t hird parties to deliver their own services based on website contents. It is the purpose of thi s paper to study on the question of visibility and accessibility of the websites of sel ected public libraries in Malaysia through the use of two major software, Alexa and EvaAcess .
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author Abu Bakar, Ahmad Bakeri
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author_facet Abu Bakar, Ahmad Bakeri
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author_sort Abu Bakar, Ahmad Bakeri
title Sustainability through website development: the case of public libraries in Malaysia
title_short Sustainability through website development: the case of public libraries in Malaysia
title_full Sustainability through website development: the case of public libraries in Malaysia
title_fullStr Sustainability through website development: the case of public libraries in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Sustainability through website development: the case of public libraries in Malaysia
title_sort sustainability through website development: the case of public libraries in malaysia
publisher ISAST
publishDate 2013
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/35188/
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http://irep.iium.edu.my/35188/1/2110QQML_Journal_2013_Abu_Bakar_87-92%281%29.pdf
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