Maintenance is so booooooooooring -Reply

[Sheryl Dwinell]

>Well, I delete them.  If I mail deadlinks to someone and don't
>hear from them in two weeks (of course I make sure they
>aren't on vacation or away for some other reason), I remove
>them from the page.
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>prospective authors).  Since the errors, dead and moved
>links, etc, are all in the reports, fixing their own pages is up to
>them.  I'm not their boss, so if they don't update it is up to
>their boss to fuss at them if things look bad for their
>department.  Since my name and mailto are on the pages
>that I maintain, and not anyone else's, it isn't my problem. 
>There are MANY advantages in not being in charge, not
>controlling, not being the boss.  "t'aint my problem"


I can see your point of view, however, I look at it from the users
perspective. It takes me about 10 min. to delete the deadlinks. I'm doing
it for the users, not for the page creator's or my own benefit.  The user
doesn't care about whatever internal crap is going in on in terms of who is
taking care of their pages or who isn't. Perhaps I'm doing too much, but I
care about how our library is represented in the online world, so I'm
willing to do the extra work.

Sheryl




Sheryl Dwinell * Cataloger/DBM Librarian/Webmaster
Memorial Library * Marquette University
P.O. Box 3141 * Milwaukee, WI 53201-3141
414-288-3406 * dwinells at vms.csd.mu.edu