Library Handouts and the Web

[Mark Cyzyk]

I am putting everything I do up on the Web, essentially using my homepage
as my file manager.  With everything linked to my homepage, I always know
where my handouts are.  I no longer search for copies on floppies ("Now
where did I put that floppy I used last year...") or scour my overloaded
(with netapps, that is) worn-out hard drive . Also, if I am at a meeting
somewhere off-campus all my stuff is as close as the nearest Web browser. 

I found out early yesterday that I was supposed to teach a two-hour
workshop for the faculty on "Downloading from the Web."  Luckily, all my
handouts were posted to my homepage so I simply printed them out at the
nearest laser printer and quickly made copies.  My Powerpoint presentation
was also posted to the Web, so within about half an hour I was ready to
go! 

I think as HTML gets more and more sophisticated, your concerns about page
layout will disappear.

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Mark Cyzyk, M.A., M.L.S.                     mcyzyk at midget.towson.edu
Albert S. Cook Library                        mcyzyk at tiger.towson.edu
Library and Instructional Technologies                 (410) 830-4285
Towson State University                            FAX (410) 830-3829
Towson, Maryland 21252                  http://www.towson.edu/~mcyzyk

On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, lHassett wrote:

>      
> 
>      For those of you who provide photocopied handouts or guides in your library 
>      and also serve those same guides on your library web site, I would like to 
>      know how you do that.  
>      
>      Currently we have many different people making handouts using word 
>      processing programs, then I get the electronic form and convert it and put 
>      it up on our site.  When there are changes, they need to be made in two 
>      places, one for the print version on WP, and one on the web.  This is 
>      obviously a waste of time and effort.  However, we can't get the exact 
>      formatting we like for the print copies if we were to just print them off 
>      our web site.  
>      
>      I'd like to know how you all approach this so that you make changes only 
>      once, yet have a printed guide as well that works in that format. (Maybe we 
>      have to compromise layout a bit in our printed guides??)  I really want to 
>      streamline this process.  
>      
>      If you'd like to respond privately, I am very happy to summarize for the 
>      list.
>      
>      Thank you very much.
>      
>      Leslie Hassett, Reference Librarian
>      Del E. Webb Memorial Library
>      Loma Linda University
>      lhassett at dwebb.llu.edu
>