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1996 IFLANET ANNUAL REPORT now available.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Terry Kuny)
Wed Jan 22 00:19:17 1997
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 19:34:25 -0600 (CST)
From: Terry Kuny <Terry.Kuny@xist.com>
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The 1996 IFLANET ANNUAL REPORT with graphics is available
in Acrobat PDF format at:
URL: http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/I/index.htm
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International Federation of Library Associations and
Institutions
UNIVERSAL DATAFLOW AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
CORE PROGRAMME
1996 IFLANET ANNUAL REPORT
IFLANET ADMINISTRATION
January 1997
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UNIVERSAL DATAFLOW AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
CORE PROGRAMME
IFLANET ADMINISTRATION
The IFLA Core Programme on Universal Dataflow and
Telecommunications (UDT) seeks to facilitate the
international and national exchange of electronic data by
providing the library community with pragmatic approaches to
resource sharing. The programme monitors and promotes the
use of relevant standards, promotes the use of relevant
technologies and monitors relevant policy issues in an
effort to overcome barriers to the electronic transfer of
data in library fields.
UDT CORE PROGRAMME / IFLANET ADMINISTRATION
CONTACT INFORMATION
Mailing Address:
IFLA International Office for UDT
c/o National Library of Canada
395 Wellington Street
Ottawa, CANADA
K1A 0N4
UDT staff:
Leigh Swain, Director
leigh.swain@nlc-bnc.ca
(819) 994-6833
Gary Cleveland
gary.cleveland@nlc-bnc.ca
(819) 997-7002
Louise Lantaigne
udt@nlc-bnc.ca
(819) 994-6963
Terry Kuny
terry.kuny@xist.com
(819) 997-9046
Fax: (819) 994-6835
IFLANET Administration electronic mail:
ifla@nlc-bnc.ca
This document is also available in electronic form on the
IFLANET WWW site:
<URL: http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/>
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IFLANET 1996 ANNUAL REPORT
INTRODUCTION
When IFLANET was proposed in 1993, it was suggested that
IFLA would be able to:
* send electronic mail among IFLA Headquarters and its
regional offices thus improving administrative and
organizational communications
* improve communication between regional offices and
individual IFLA members
* create electronic conferences among special interest
groups, organizational groups, and working groups
* distribute electronic newsletters and electronic journals
* provide remote access to electronic documents.
The first steps in developing IFLANET began in 1994 with the
formation of the IFLA-L mailing list. IFLANET currently runs
three public mailing lists with a combined subscriber base
of over 6000.
This development was followed in March 1995 with the
operation of the IFLANET World Wide Web service at the
National Library of Canada. Within a very short time, the
IFLANET WWW service has become a primary resource for
library and information science information on the Internet.
An important aspect of IFLANET is the information it
provides about the technologies, trends, and policy issues
facing contemporary libraries. IFLANET represents a powerful
publishing tool that provides the ability to bring
information more rapidly to its users than was ever possible
on paper.
The IFLANET service is currently maintained on an DEC Alpha
UNIX computer running a Netscape server at the National
Library of Canada. The software for the IFLA mailing lists
service is L-Soft LISTSERV, the most common Internet list
software. Document preparation is done on personal computers
running Windows and a variety of proprietary and shareware
Internet and WWW development tools. The document and
software collection maintained under IFLANET now contains
over 14,778 distinct files and in excess of 8000 hypertext
links.
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STATISTICAL HIGHLIGHTS: 1996 WWW SITE USAGE
Total successful requests: 691,408
Average successful requests per day: 1,889
Number of distinct hosts served: 140,389
Total data transferred: 13,366 Mbytes
Average data transferred per day: 37,397 kbytes
Note: request counts do not include downloads of images.
Counts are for document pages retrieved(i.e. HTML, text,
PDF) only. Host counts do not equal number of users: host
counts represent a base minimum number of users as there may
be more than one user per host.
* The IFLA Home Page was retrieved approximately 41,000
times during the year. This represented approximately 6% of
all retrievals.
* The LIBJOBS archive accounts for over 20% of IFLANET
accesses.
* The Electronic Collections and Services pages account for
over 108,000 documents served or about 16% of the total
usage.
* Training materials (colour page, HTML, listserv materials)
account for over 10% of the documents served.
* Downloading of 31,972 documents from the copyright
collection account for almost 5% of the usage.
* There were 16,555 retrievals from the 62nd annual
conference pages; 16,509 retrievals were made for materials
from the 61st annual conference proceedings.
* 10,353 copies of UDT Occasional Papers were retrieved.
* The most popular section was the Section on Information
Technology whose pages were delivered more than 18,000
times. The most popular document was the Inventory of
Multimedia Software which had over 14,000 copies downloaded.
* According to the Alta Vista search service, the IFLA home
page is linked to by over 2000 other Internet sites.
Usage of the site has increased substantially in the past
year. No comparable 1995 aggregate figures are available
since the site was not operational until April 1995 and a
number of changes to the site late in 1995 resulted in an
inaccurate reporting of hits. The July 1995/July 1996
comparison is representative of the growth in use of the
site over the past year, which has general doubled.
July 1995 July 1996
Unique hosts served 5318 12,637
Documents served 19,926 51,845
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STATISTICAL HIGHLIGHTS: THE TOP 20 IFLANET RESOURCES
1. LIBJOBS Archive (hits >171,000)
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/cgi-bin/ifla-lwgate/LIBJOBS/archives/
2. IFLA Home Page (41,096)
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/
3. Colour and Backgrounds Training (27,309)
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/I/training/colour/colour.htm
4. Copyright Resources (20,157)
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/II/cpyright.htm
5. Digital Libraries: Resources and Projects (17,346)
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/II/diglib.htm
6 . Advanced HTML Resources (14,778)
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/I/training/html/
7. Internet Mailing Lists Guides and Resources (15,304)
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/I/training/listserv/lists.htm
8. Inventory of Multimedia Software(14,383)
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/VII/s21/p1995/sitp2.htm
9. Citation Guides for Electronic Documents (8,218)
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/I/training/citation/citing.htm
10. Library and Information Science Resources (9,213)
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/II/libdoc.htm
11. Cataloguing and Indexing of Electronic Resources (7,933)
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/II/catalog.htm
12. Metadata Resources (6,690)
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/II/metadata.htm
13. Canadian Information Policy Resources (6,400)
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/II/canada.htm
14. Quotations About Libraries and Librarians (5,296)
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/I/humour/author.htm
15. Library Humour (5,018)
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/I/humour/humour.htm
16. Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery and Resource
Sharing (4,394)
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/II/ill.htm
17. Overview of Document Management Technology (4,329)
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/VI/5/op/udtop2.htm
18. National Libraries of the World: an Address List
(4,126)
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/VI/2/p2/natlibs.htm
19. An Overview of the Z39.50 Information Retrieval Standard
(4,058)
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/VI/5/op/udtop3.htm
20. 62nd IFLA Council and General Conference (3,823)
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/IV/ifla62/62intro.htm
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STATISTICAL HIGHLIGHTS: IFLANET MAILING LISTS
IFLANET currently operates and moderates three very popular
mailing lists that reach over 6,000 subscribers in over 60
countries. In 1996, over 5 million messages were sent world-
wide through the IFLANET mailing lists. The amount of
traffic resulting from IFLA email usage necessitated a
processor upgrade to the National Library of Canada mail
server to accommodate existing and projected traffic.
IFLA-L
An electronic forum intended to foster communications
between IFLA, its membership, and members of the
international library community. The goal in establishing
this list is to facilitate information exchange as well as
professional communication and development within the IFLA
community.
Total number of users subscribed to the list (Jan 97): 835
Total number of countries represented: 60
DIGLIB
A discussion list for librarians, information scientists,
and other information professionals to discuss the
constellation of issues and technologies pertaining to the
creation of digital libraries.
Total number of users subscribed to the list (Jan 97):1761
Total number of countries represented: 53
LIBJOBS
A mailing list for the submission of employment
opportunities for librarians and information professionals.
Total number of users subscribed to the list (Jan 97): 3598
Total number of countries represented: 52
In 1997, a number of smaller and restricted access lists
will be maintained by IFLANET Administration to facilitate
communication among Executive Board, Professional Board and
Information Officers.
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INTERNATIONAL ACCESS TO IFLANET SERVICES
Members and other interested users in over 106 different
countries have been able to access the IFLANET World Wide
Web service in 1996:
| Albania | Algeria | Andorra | Antigua and Barbuda
| Argentina | Armenia | Aruba
| Australia | Austria | Bahamas | Bahrain | Belarus
| Belgium | Bermuda | Bolivia | Brazil
| Brunei Darussalam | Bulgaria | Canada | Cayman Islands
| Chile | China | Colombia
| Costa Rica | Croatia | Cyprus | Czech Republic | Denmark
| Dominica | Dominican Republic | Ecuador | Egypt
| El Salvador | Estonia | Faroe Islands | Fiji | Finland
| Former USSR | France | Georgia | Germany | Great Britain
| Greece | Greenland | Guam (USA) | Guatemala | Hong Kong
| Hungary | Iceland | Indonesia | India | Ireland | Israel
| Italy | Jamaica | Japan | Jordan | Kazakhstan | Kenya
| Kuwait | Latvia | Lebanon | Lithuania | Luxembourg | Macau
| Malaysia | Malta | Mauritius | Mexico | Morocco
| Netherlands | New Zealand | Nicaragua | Norway
| Pakistan | Panama | Paraguay | Peru | Philippines | Poland
| Portugal | Romania | Russian Federation | Saint Lucia
| Saudi Arabia | Singapore | Slovak Republic | Slovenia
| South Africa | South Korea | Spain | Sri Lanka | Swaziland
| Sweden | Switzerland | Taiwan | Thailand
| Trinidad and Tobago | Tunisia | Turkey | Uganda | Ukraine
| United Arab Emirates | United Kingdom | United States
| Uruguay | Venezuela | Yugoslavia | Zambia | Zimbabwe
IFLANET email users come from all of the above listed
countries as well as: Botswana, Cuba, Iran, Lesotho,
Namibia, Mongolia, and Papua New Guinea. Internet email
remains the strongest mechanism for members and interested
parties to communicate with IFLA.
It is difficult to determine exactly which countries IFLANET
users are coming from as domain names such as .com are not
necessarily U.S.-based. Almost 20% of IFLA users are coming
from the .com domain. Almost 25% of the users cannot be
identified as the domain name could not be resolved: a
significant portion of these users probably come from
overseas.
Approximately 55-60% of known users appear to come from
North America, while about 15% come from Europe, and about
5% from Asia-Pacific.
A mirror site has been established in France in December and
mirrors in the IFLA regions are presently being considered.
As the Internet expands, and with increased access to
IFLANET through regional mirror sites, IFLANET will continue
to extend its global reach in 1997.
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