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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| Language: | English |
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ISAST
2013
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/35188/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/35188/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/35188/1/2110QQML_Journal_2013_Abu_Bakar_87-92%281%29.pdf |
| Summary: | 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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