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After a library establishes its web site, evaluation is very important to understand the use of the web site and to improve the site performance. This paper introduces an evaluation method using the information extracted from web log files. This quantitative method is objective and economic and can be used in conjunction with other methods of survey research. In this paper, the format of web logs and the information that can be extracted from them are introduced. We also present an example of log files obtained from a real web site established by a university library to analyze the use of the site. Analysis of this example points to a close relation between the information carried by the log files and the use of the web site. Therefore, analysis results of the log files are important to evaluate a web site.
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