Links for Library Web Pages 

The creation of proper electronic resource links for your statewide, regional, and local resources is critical to helping your patrons discover these valuable resources and accessing them with a minimum of clicks. Library web sites that do not require in-library and campus-wide users to provide barcodes or passwords report higher overall usage statistics.

The following information will help you create links both for in-library and campus or organization-wide access, as well as remote access. You can link to an entire group of licensed resources by vendor, or link to individual electronic resources. For remote access, there is a single link to all statewide and regional electronic resources, as well as links to individual products and links by vendor. Linking to individual products is great for subject-oriented and children or young adult web pages. Strategic placement of as many links as necessary to put the resources where your patrons are boosts usage.