Robert,
I agree with this 101%. The only thing I would add is that I had so many people saying "remind me - is it "/libraries" or "/library" that I now have both set up. The main advantage is that if you (or others outside your control) find it necessary to change the URL of your Main Page, the public URL stays the same. You just change the redirection.
May I enlarge on your additional point? It would also be very useful if all public library authorities adopted a standard public-facing email address of the kind <Mailto:[log in to unmask]>, so that you only need the authority's URL to be able to send the Library Service an email.
Peter Marshall
Project Development Librarian
Bexley Council
Tel: 020 8320 4135 (Direct Line)
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From: Robert Harden [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 17 June 2003 08:45
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Subject: Public library URLs
Why don't all public library authorities use a common and consistent
form of web address? Why don't they all use /libraries after the
address of the authority, eg.
www.loamshire.gov.uk/libraries
Some libraries already do. But most have complicated URLs, often
reflecting the organisational hierarchy they find themselves in. Many
have unquotably long URLs because of the database structure of the
site. Simple consistent URLs that followed the same pattern nationwide
would make library sites easier to find and easier to promote.
There is no technical impediment. Whatever the real URL, the /libraries
address can be the public face of it, even on database sites.
You may have noticed that this is the style of naming that the BBC uses
and it comes in very handy when the address of a particular site needs
to be referred to.
Robert Harden
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