Librarians as campus webmasters

[Robert H. Terry]

Exactly my point a couple of months ago, as the amount of information 
grows so does the number of people needed to maintain it.  As the number 
of people grows, so does the adhoc organization, presentation, and styles 
increase.  In the end like so many other sites the HTML code that is 
being written is going to be what is referenced as "spaghetti code" in 
the Computer Science discipline, lots of links wherein to get lost in.
 


On Thu, 19 Oct 
1995, Mark McFarland wrote:

> Melinda et al,
> 
> I have been co-campus webmaster for almost 2 years now.  The campus server
> was originally managed by a computation center person who very early
> on called me up and asked if I wanted to help grow/manage/support the
> campus server.  I said yes and since that time our 2-person, 2-unit
> collaboration has grown into a team approach.  We now have what we 
> call Team Web.  Team Web consists of more than a dozen people who donate 
> their time and talents to supporting the server.  There are programmers, 
> graphics people, mail handlers and a kind of informal brain trust that
> keeps the service going.   The library has a significant role on this 
> team in that we actually operate several important "pages" (the Research 
> Web, and the Search Page, and the library web, of course) and conduct 
> training and answer mail.
> 
> I cannot imagine a better situation.  This seems to work very well - 
> the work gets done and campus publishers and users seem satisfied
> with the service they get and the product that has emerged from
> this campuswide collaboration.  Academic computing, administrative
> computing, and the library form the basis of this collaboration.
> 
> Mark McFarland
> Librarian, Univ of Texas at Austin
> m.mcfarland at mail.utexas.edu
> 
>