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| URL:
http://keepingitrealforlibraries.blogspot.com/ |
| Site Name: Keeping
It Real: Professional Information Ethics and Libraries |
| Date Accessed:
11/1/2014 |
| Evaluators: Becky
Labonte, Jean Ruark, Bree Stephany, Brooke VanDerlin, Jennifer Webster |
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| EVALUATION
CRITERIA |
IF PRESENT,
TYPE an 'X' |
|
CONDITIONAL CALCULATOR |
| |
OIR |
|
OIR |
| Authority |
|
|
| Is it
clear who is responsible for the page (e.g., author, publisher,
organizational or corporate sponsor)? |
X |
1 |
| Are they
qualified to provide such information? |
X |
1 |
| Are the
sources of factual information listed so that they can be verified, such as a
reference list, or does it include links to authoritative sites? |
X |
1 |
| Is this
page linked from or reviewed by other reliable or authoritative sites? |
|
0 |
| SUBTOTAL |
3 |
|
| Accuracy
or Clarity |
|
|
| Is the
information labeled and easy to read, especially chunking or clustering of
information, graphs and charts?
Are related items near each other so that information is easy to find? |
X |
1 |
| Are the
pages well organized, with a consistent pattern throughout the site, such as
the consistent placement of navigation links? |
X |
1 |
| Is the
information free of errors: spelling, typographical, grammatical? |
X |
1 |
| SUBTOTAL |
3 |
|
| Usability |
|
|
| Is the
site easy to use? |
X |
1 |
| Are the navigation options well marked
and obvious? |
X |
1 |
| Do the
links to the homepage, other internal pages and external sites all work? |
X |
1 |
| SUBTOTAL |
3 |
|
| Quality |
|
|
| Does the
site exhibit high quality? |
X |
1 |
| Does the
information show a minimum of bias? |
X |
1 |
| Does the
content appear to be substantial (e.g., based on current knowledge)? |
X |
1 |
| Is the
content relevant to the information seeker's need? |
X |
1 |
| SUBTOTAL |
4 |
|
| Currency |
|
|
| Are
there dates to indicate when the pages were written or first placed on the
web or when it was last revised? |
X |
1 |
| Are
there indications that the material is kept current? |
X |
1 |
| If data
is used, such as in charts or graphs, does it indicate when the data was
published? |
X |
1 |
| SUBTOTAL |
3 |
|
| Coverage |
|
|
| Comparing
this site to others, does this one appears to offer a breadth of
coverage? |
X |
1 |
| From a
content or relevance viewpoint, does this page have intrinsic value? |
X |
1 |
| Does the
treatment appear to be in-depth? |
X |
1 |
| SUBTOTAL |
3 |
|
| Objectivity |
|
0 |
| Is the
information free of advertising? |
X |
1 |
| SUBTOTAL |
1 |
|
| TOTAL checkmarks this site received: |
20 |
|
| Total of
checkmarks possible for this evaluation: |
21 |
|
| (Total
number checkmarks is 20. If you add more questions, you must increase the
number accordingly.) |
|
| %
possible checkmarks |
95% |
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