Library.link Website Review

Every Library, Archive, Museum and Historical Society has a Story to tell. These stories reflect and connect with their communities. The Web needs structured data to understand these stories and make strong The Library.Link Network brings together libraries and their providers to tell the Web localized, comprehensive, connection-rich stories.. SEEDING THE WEB WITH LIBRARY LOCATIONS, SERVICES, AND CONTENT. Libraries exist to know and serve their communities, whether centered around geography, purpose, or subjects. Libraries maintain some of the richest descriptive metadata, curated content, and services in the world. For the Web to connect with The Web values happy users above all. The Library.Link Network completes the cycle of visibility by working with libraries and providers to ensure the wealth of data and connections links Web users to the Library’s resources, locations, special collections, and The Library.Link Network is a project to bring the immense value libraries have to offer to the World Wide Web. People who search for resources for research and leisure through Web searches and use digital as*istants find plenty of sellers of books and media, but are rarely presented with libraries as an option. This is because although libraries have extraordinarily rich catalogs, these are maintained using technology that is not very transparent to web search engines and intelligent agents. By participating in The Library.Link Network, institutions can upload their catalogs as they are and have them transformed into sites which are very carefully designed to be as attractive as possible for modern automated web applications. The quality of information organization librarians maintain every day is such that libraries should be at the center of the knowledge age, and Library.Link is working to fulfill this potential. Libraries benefit because they can reverse trends which have seen them lose prominence in the minds of the public. Everyone else benefits—researchers, educators, public policy makers, businesses and more because they gain access on the Web to improved,