Standards for Institution Web Pages

[Jeri Traw]

As a matter of fact, this is an area of web librarianship that I am 
interested in and  pursuing.

I have a rather large collection of library web site policy documents 
that I have collected by searching the web & from directly asking 
other libraries.  The problem is that it is a pretty long list.  If 
anyone would like the URL of any type of library in particular I 
would be happy to send those along.

Those of you who do have standards/guidelines,  what do you think the 
importance of those standards are, what function do they serve in 
your particular institution, who wrote the standards (a team or 
individual), when did you write them (before your site was created or 
after, how long after), do you also have a parent institution who's 
standards you must follow (do they conflict or complement your 
standards), what sorts of issues do they address, and do you make 
them available on your web site to the public?

Any thoughts on this subject that any of you have would be of great 
interest to me. And if anyone would like to share their web policy 
documents with me I would love it.

Again, if anyone needs names of institutions who have policies just 
let me know.

Jeri Traw
Reference Librarian/ Web Coordinator
Kimbel Library
Coastal Carolina University
Conway, SC
traw at coastal.edu