From: Catherine Murray-Rust
Re: Charge to the Web Server Installation Committee
Thank you for agreeing to serve as a member of one of the three groups that comprise the Web Server Installation Committee. We are all anxious to get the new web server fully functioning during second semester. To ensure that we focus our time and energy on the tasks that must to be done in the next two or three months, I want to review the general charge provide short lists of tasks for each of the subcommittees.
The Library purchased the web server in order to take responsibility for its own information on CUINFO and to encourage the various units and departments to move the growing number of web pages into a more organized, better supported environment. As you know the Library's web server is up and running in the machine room in CIT. The Library's files from CUINFO are being moved to it. Naomi Dushay from the Library Technology Department has been involved since the beginning of the project, and Bill Turner will be the liaison between LTD and the implementation as we move through the intersession and spring semester. Bill and his colleagues in LTD are responsible for the hardware and software installations and for setting up the production routines.
The primary responsibility of the Web Server Implementation Committee is to develop a framework for the transition of various web pages to the library server, and to set up collaborative arrangements for the future. The organization, content, design, and management of the web files for the public are your responsibility. The library staff web site will be the responsiblity of someone outside your group.
The Web Server Implementation Committee is made up of three sub-groups. Paul Constantine will chair the committee, and take charge of the policy subcommittee.
The policy subcommittee is charged with the following tasks.
1. Prepare a statement of the rights and responsibilities of owners of web pages which will serve as a formal agreement between the owner and the Library.
2. Develop a process to manage the authorization of access to the test system by owners of web pages. LTD will be responsible for determining how test pages will be moved into the production system.
3. Develop standards for content, update frequency, and accuracy of all web material provided to the public through the Library's server.
The design subcommittee, chaired by Patricia O'Neill, is charged with the following tasks.
1. Work with the university's design staff and perhaps with a professional designer hired by the Library to learn more about the principles of graphic design in web environment.
2. Develop a set of unifying features (color, logo, type sizes and styles) to be used on the various library web pages.
3. Develop templates for new web pages owners to use.
4. Evaluate existing and proposed web pages according to the design principles and features the group has developed.
The web developers subcommittee, chaired by Tony Cosgrave, is charged with the following tasks.
1. Collaborate to improve the existing web pages.
2. Implement the design principles and policies developed by the other two subgroups.
3. Encourage and participate in user evaluations of web pages.
4. Provide support and encouragement for staff who are interested in developing web pages to be mounted on the library server.
The chairs of the subcommittees will be setting up the schedules for your meetings. We are planning to schedule a meeting of the whole committee after the holidays. I have invited a graphic designer from the university to meet with us.
Catherine Murray-Rust
Revised January 12, 1996