Web sites for library staff

[Julie (Julie James)]

I have seen this expressed several times:

> We don't restrict access and don't include any sensitive information
> on the site. It's not linked to from our main web site, though, so you
have
> to know about it to find it.

That ain't necessarily so if your site is indexed by search engines. I was
using a general search engine recently to look for info on a library, and
the library's Staff Web came up in the search several times  BEFORE their
public site.

A robots.txt files does a reasonable job of protecting servers and
directories from unwanted indexing.
See http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/norobots.html for more
info and examples.

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Julie James
Information Technology Librarian                                
Kansas City Public Library         
816/701-3461
http://www.kclibrary.org           
julie at kclibrary.org