Valerie D. Glenn
University of North Texas Libraries

• Determine who your audience is

• Determine the scope of the page
• Do you have a collection development policy that you could use to determine what subjects you want to concentrate on?
• Do you want to provide annotations or just lists of links?
• Will your page be composed of resources on a broad subject or tailored to a specific class / assignment / other focus?
• Do you link to individual titles or broader resource pages?

• Is someone else providing the same information or information on the same topic in a way that is still valuable / useful to your users?
• Frequently Used Sites Related to U.S. Federal Government Information http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/romans/fdtf/
• Consumer.gov http://www.consumer.gov/
• UNT Libraries’ Consumer Information http://www.library.unt.edu/govinfo/consinfo/consinfo.html

• Checking for broken links: purchase link checking software or use freeware?
• Licensed:
• http://www.watchfire.com/products/desktop/webqa/
• http://www.netmechanic.com/link_check.htm
• Freeware:
• http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

• Updating – time searching for new content vs. using current awareness services such as:
• NCJRS: https://puborder.ncjrs.org/secure/register/register.asp
• Scout Report: http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/About/subscribe.php
• ResourceShelf: http://www.resourceshelf.com/

• How do you determine usage?
• Electronic reference form, address, or chat service? What are your users asking for/about?
• Check usage statistics – if they’re kept. Investigate software that keeps track of Web site visitors.
• WebTrends: http://www.netiq.com/webtrends/default.asp
• Site Counters

• Check usage

• Is it a ‘hot topic’ page that’s no longer hot?

• Is your content outdated?

• Is someone else providing the same information or information on the same topic in a way that is still valuable/useful to your users? [see above]

• Do other people link to your page? [Google Advanced Search]

• Have your user needs changed?