WWW Policy
Mission:
To provide WWW access to resources that support the curriculum & research endeavors of UWG students, faculty & staff.
Objectives & Goals:
- Work toward a lack of redundancy in the production, editing and distribution of library-genterated information
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- Encourage library faculty/staff to create all documents as HTML files accessible in either the library's public or departmental web directories.
- Foster clarity and ease of use in web page design
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- See the library's web page Design Policy
- Provide the ability to search all library pages from any one of the library's web pages.
- Use WWW as means of increasing functional access to library resources
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- Provide Web access to library's OPAC
- Support and encourage interactivity between library and its users
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- WWW access toward increased efficiency & effectiveness of workflow
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- Encourage library faculty/staff participation in web development
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- Provide HTML training
- Ease the procedure for making library web pages
- Find WYSIWYG HTML editors instead of learning HTML
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- WordPerfect
- HoTMetaL
- Word for Windows
- Allow locally created files to be saved easily to the library's web directories:
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- Use NFS to mount oldsun directories locally (under testing)
- Use a web editor with upload capabilities (reviewed programs look bad)
- Install web server on Netware Network
- Ensure quality & consistancy among all library web pages
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- Create a design policy, in compliance with any existing UWG WWW Guidelines and Rules, with requirements that provide quality & consistency without excluding inovation.
- Create an Acquisitions Policy that provides a means for justifying the inclusion/exclusion of resources & the relative positioning of these resources within the web page hierarchy.
- Measure Use of Web Pages
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- Total hits on all web pages
- Total hits on each web page
- Statistics on who accessed which pages
- Statistics comparing in library; off-campus; on-campus; departmental access to pages
- Statistics on outgoing (from library workstations) traffic
- Efficiency ratings dividing Bytes Sent by Requests per page
Considering the Analog WWW server logfile analysis program
- Evaluate effectiveness of Web Pages
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- Analyse statistics
- User comment
- Staff input
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