Abstract—This study has assessed and compared content management of some websites of libraries in America, Europe and Asia; it is also about to what extent being paid attention to the principles of content management based on the best systems of content management in websites of national libraries. Content management may be known as the process of collecting, organizing and classifying of any kind of information resources in order to store, recover, disseminate, update and reuse these information resources desirably. The population is national libraries of USA, Denmark, England and Sweden (Group A) from America and Europe, national libraries of Iran, Japan, Singapore and Turkey (Group B)from Asia which were assessed based on the criteria in the search list. Content management of the websites of national libraries in Asian countries was compared to that of America and Europe. The results showed there were totally 82 percent of expecting features in websites of national libraries in Group A, in which the best one was LC one, while it was 83 percent in websites of national libraries in Group B, in which the best one was the Singapore website. There was not any considerable difference, with respect to content management, between current situations of national libraries websites in Group A and Group B. But websites of national libraries in Asian countries had relative superiority. The National Library of Turkey website was the worst among all.

Index Terms—Content analysis, content management, national library websites, website assessment.

Mohsen Nowkarizi, Nosrat Fanudi, and Zahra Nowrouzi are with the LIS Dept., Education and Psychology Faculty, University of Birjand, Iran(e-mail: nowkarzi@yahoo.com).

Cite: Mohsen Nowkarizi, Nosrat Fanudi, and Zahra Nowrouzi, "The Assessment and Comparison of Content Management of Some Websites of National Libraries in America, Europe and Asia," International Journal of Computer and Communication Engineering vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 305-308 , 2012.