19th International CODATA Conference
Category: Open Communication

Cataloguing Websites of Libraries

Omar LAROUK (larouk@enssib.fr)
ENSSIB-Lyon, École Nationale Supérieure des Sciences de l'Information et des Bibliothèques, High School of Information Science and Libraries, France

The explosive growth of Web sites and Usenet news demands effective filtering solutions. Search engines facilitate the access to digital data through WEB servers. A number of Internet search engines provide classified search directories. The aim of the present paper is to suggest a method of classification of website gateways made by the librarians and information science specialists. Apart from search engines, which claim to cover all areas of knowledge, there exist “gateway” sites produced by specialists in particular fields. Librarians and information specialists were the first to compile this kind of site. They attempt to structure Web content by providing validated links to the most interesting or useful resources in a given field.