Summary: Time Spent Building/Maintaining Web Sites

[lHassett]

     I appreciate very much the time and thought given to this question by 
     those who responded. A big thank you!  Each seemed to have a somewhat 
     different set up or way of handling the web maintenance question.  Some 
     are lone workers, others have a team approach, others hire student 
     workers.  Most share the situation that time per week varies greatly 
     depending on other priorities. Therefore, the hours listed below are 
     estimates ("guestimates").  In many cases, initial set-up hours were 
     higher (up to full-time) then decreased after the site went up.  Many 
     expressed the idea that endless amounts of hours could be spent if all 
     the goals and ideas for the sites were addressed.  One person said that 
     work could take longer...depending on the amount of obsessive-compulsive 
     behavior involved!  (I agree!)
        
     Here is a summary of the replies  (I hope I get everyone's information 
     correct!)
        
        
     Peter Milbury, Librarian
     Chico High School
     www.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/libr/webres.helpful.html 
     15-20 hours per week
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     Judith Rigsby, Acquisitions/Internet Librarian 
     Oral Roberts University
     www.oru.edu/library/index.html
     10 hours per week 
        (hired a student during one semester 15 hrs/week for forms, 
        scripts, and some design)
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     Katrina Magnuson, Reference/Electronic Resources Librarian 
     Highland Park Public Library
     nsn.nslsilus.org.hpkhome (most library pages currently internal only) 
     15 hours per week 
        (includes Library and community pages about 1/2 and 1/2)
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     Karen Oberst, Head Tech Services/Systems Librarian 
     Seattle Pacific University
     www.spu.edu/library
     15-20 hours per week 
        (includes 10 hours/week of student assistance)
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     Rob Aken, WWW Resources Librarian
     University of Kentucky
     www.uky.edu/Libraries/library-homepage.html 
     30 hours per week 
        (includes main and branch libraries as well as teaching)
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     Francesca Lane Rasmus, Technology Reference Librarian 
     Earlham College
     www.earlham.edu/www/library
     7 hours per week 
        (plus others alert for sites to add.  30 hours from student in 
        summer, average during breaks and summer 20 hours per week)
     10-15 hours per week average??
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     Janet Crum, Cataloger & Systems Librarian/Library Web Manager 
     Oregon Health Sciences Library
     www.ohsu.edu/bicc-Library/library.htm 
     3-5 hours per week 
        (recently hired computer support person to share 
        responsibilities.  no time estimate yet for that)
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     Roy Tennant, former web manager of UC Berkeley's Library site 
     www.lib.berkeley.edu
     20 hours per week or less 
        (Not more than 50% time)  Many content (that's substance, 
        not happy!) providers do own mark-up.
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     Christy Hightower
     Science and Engineering Library, UC San Diego 
     scilib.ucsd.edu
     3-10 hours per week 
        (does NOT include about 3 hours per week of student 
        programmer time for this site, plus time from other 
        librarians on the web team)
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     Madeline Showalter, Internet Administrator
     Austin Public Library
     www.ci.austin.tx.us/library
     20 hours per week (for the library)
        (team effort: includes graphic artist 5 hours/week, 
        librarian 5 hours/week, other staff 10 hours/week)
        -The City has two full-time and 1 FTE part time people 
        dedicated to managing the City's overall web site including PR 
        manager, graphic artist, systems analyst/programmer/network 
        manager, html editor/liaison-key contact people maintain their 
        department's pages.
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     John Kupersmith, Internet Services Librarian
     Washoe County Library
     www.washoe.lib.nv.us
     8 hours per week 
        (includes 4 hours to keep news current on front page, updating 
        library information, proscpecting the web and adding new 
        links- once per month run link checker resulting in about 4-8 
        hours of follow-up work)
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     Sarah Nesbeitt, Reference Librarian
     The Clement C. Maxwell Library
     Bridgewater State College (MA)
     www.maxlib.bridgew.edu
     4-5 hours per week