Comparisons of Chinese & British University Library Homepages

This paper aims to find the distance between the university library homepages of China and of Britain, and point out a future developing direction of Chinese university library homepages. A statistic method and a comparison method are used, the frequency of some certain items in university library homepages in these two countries are compared. There are some differences in column establishment, layout design, color tone selection, media application between two countries' university library homepages, these differences manifest the features of two countries' university library, and reflect the gap of the design conception of library homepages between two countries. From a deeper level it also reflects the distance of service conception of university library between these two countries. From the viewpoint of humane and function, Chinese university library homepages should learn British university library homepages. This paper is a original study in the comparison between the Chinese university library homepages and British ones, and can help Chinese university libraries to improve their homepage design and idea of service.