Mahesh Singh Rana

Evaluation of Library Web Sites of Select Institute of Management:: India Mahesh Singh Rana

The IML Websites are mirror of their collection, services and user-focused gateways to rich, quality content and they play a key role in the learning and research processes. The dynamic library websites and web-based library services will enable the users to be attracting the libraries. Hence, the study undertaken to reflect the need for well organized, dynamically maintained library websites for the study libraries. The most important single aspect of any website is its usability. The website of academic library should reflect users' needs and expectations. The library website content, structure, and design need to reflect with changes in user behaviour, technology, and information resources. Based on the findings, IML Websites in India have not come up to expectations as virtual expressions of the quality level of the academic excellence. There is a lack of information organization in most of the study websites. Hence, it is essential for these libraries to implement internal as well as external and manual and automated periodic evaluation of their websites.