You didn't hear this from me... but I thought you should know what people are saying about your website.
Or at least who's linking to it. You might be surprised.
Do a "link:" search in Google, and another in Yahoo, substituting your URL in the query: link:http://www.yourlibrary.org/
The results you bring up will be pages that link to your website (or did at the time they were indexed). It's best to try both Google's and Yahoo's search engines because sometimes they turn up drastically different pages. Neither will be 100% accurate (they can't index every page of the entire Internet at every moment -- if only!), but they give a rough idea.
Variations: substitute any alternate domain name that your website uses (like link:http://www.yourlibrary.info), or the URL of a specific page on your site (like link:http://www.yourlibrary.org/notthehomepage.html).
Egotistical? Maybe a little -- but it can valuable to see whether your website is being linked to anywhere, and in what context (it's part of your online reputation). Additionally, if you are thinking about eliminating a page from your website, it's helpful to see if anybody is still linking to it.
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