Content Analysis of Ibiblio

The Question is: What does ibiblio what to say with its brand?

The organization of ibiblio is working toward promoting the ideas of research, education, and service that come from the creed of the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. 

Currently on their website only one of those three principles is being utilized.

Page Analysis

There are 28 pages that wrap the content of ibiblio.

Judging from the existing navigation Ibiblio consists of two main sections of content:

Linux and Collections

A majority of the pages contain the same three navigational columns in a combination of two with one being consistent.

The consistent column consists of links to:

open source Linux Software Linux Distributions Linux Documentation Mirrored Software new linux distros RedHat Beta / http RedHat Beta / ftp Mandrake 9.1 / http Mandrake 9.1 / ftp Public FTP Archives Linux Documentation Open Source Research Sourceforge ftp mirror	Linux: This group of links are intended to bring you to the content related to Linux and are inlinks to other ibiblio pages. Linux: This group of links are linux distributions (Are they on ibiblio or out?) Linux: This group is also related to linux and the open source movement but are primarily outlinks In Out Out Out
rss feed	What does ibiblio push?
ibiblio favorites Documenting the American South Project Gutenberg radio ibiblio WCPE (24 hour classical) WDAV (Davidson College) WUNC (UNC NPRstation) WXDU (Duke) WXYC (UNC college radio) Roger McGuinn's Folk Den: Drunken Sailor Dr. Fun Today's Dr. Fun Cory Doctorow Video of Cory Doctorow's public talk at UNC on 2/5/04	Links to Collections that are perceived or promoted as important: Collection Collection 3 Ghost Hosted and/or Out links Collection Ghost Hosted Content within ghost Collection Recent event (secret page)
recent additions NAGPRA Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Multi-Education and Editing Center Press Club of Tibet Sherig - Tibetan Children's Educational and Welfare Fund Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy Cory Doctorow: A Public Talk on the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Copyright Eben Moglan: The dotCommunist Manifesto: How Culture Became Property and What We're Going to Do About It unciTunes.org Design and People Friends of Tibet More Than Math President Emeritus William Friday GrokLaw Sampleswap Audio Collection iaslash recent features February features Documenting the American South Mostly Menfolk and a Woman or Two: A Virtual Exhibit of 18th and 19th Century African-American Literature SNCC 1960-1966: Six years of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy 1718-1820 The Fela Project Third World Forum January features The Virtual Cell IUPAC: The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry Agricultural Resources Center and Pesticide Education Project Project Links GRASS GIS Plant Information Center SampleSwap Audio December features Abe Kôbô A Tribute to Kay Kyser New York Women Composers William Friday Sam Neill John Henry Paul Green November features Documenting the American South Picturing the North Carolina Fund Excavating Occaneechi Town Molassas Fully Awake: The Black Mountain College Experience Haw River October features ibiblio's 11th Birthday!	List of links regarding collections This section is new stuff that’s been added This section is a themed grouping of collections governed by the temporal space of the monthly home page update.

index of past homepages                                This is a link to past home pages which is essential the same as recent features only that it is all and because historic goes back to the point when ibiblo didn’t do the features.

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This section represents the column that appears on content unrelated to linux.

Collection Index What's New Arts and Recreation Geography, Biography, and History Language Literature Natural Science and Mathematics Philosophy and Psychology Reference Religion and Theology Social Sciences Technology and Applied Sciences Ebooks full text books available for reading on line or for download Journals online publications Archives archives of newsgroups & email lists Historic no longer maintained, but useful or interesting

Search box for site. (Gotta have one.) Collections: Main page of index Collections: to section of collection for new collections Collections: section of collection Collections: section of collection Collections: section of collection Collections: section of collection Collections: section of collection Collections: section of collection Collections: section of collection Collections: section of collection Collections: section of collection Collections: section of collection Collections: aggregated section of collection (link at bottom of main collection page.) Collections: aggregated section of collection (link at bottom of main collection page.) Collections: aggregated section of collection (link at bottom of main collection page.) Collections: aggregated section of collection (link at bottom of main collection page.)

About ibiblio about ibiblio Systems Central FAQ collection policy people of ibiblio partners

Administrative: history/explanation/invitation Systems: What’s happening behind the scenes Administrative: collection policy Administrative: who is behind it all Administrative: who pays

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ibiblio mission Linux submissions: how to submit naming conventions LSM template copyleft & licensing

Search: same as previous Linux: mission about archive Linux: submission info Linux: directions on naming Linux: LSM template Linux: licensing information

Linux Archives: applications audio/sound commercial/demos development tools distributions documentation editors games hardware & drivers kernel kernel.org libraries science search system tools utilities www tools X window

Links to index pages on server (low tech) which represent applications that have been categorized as seen on left.

Related Archives: Apache Mozilla Samba GNU project Archive aids: search the archive archive use hints how to get linux recent submissions INDEX.whole.gz

Out: apache Out: mozilla Out: samba Out: GNU project Linux: html search front Linux: tips on the archive Linux: instructions with revision data Linux: huge list no descriptor or nav Linux: massive index of entire code history

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