[WEB4LIB] Re: Academic Library Web Pages

[Dan Lester]

At 02:57 PM 3/1/99 -0800, Susan Acampora wrote:
>internet and database resources.  Many of us feel the library should 
>maintain a
>website in order to maintain  currency and provide a more comprehensive web
>resource.
As one more comment on all of this, I'll say that besides things here being 
done in the loose "Boise State Way" (similar to the HP Way, for those 
familiar with it), the library had the first web server on campus, and 
after starting the library website started the university website, managing 
it for ten months until the IT folks could get their stuff together to do 
so themselves.  Note that I'm not knocking our IT folks, with whom we work 
VERY closely....they've greatly improved since 1994 when all of the above 
happened.  We still run two physical servers, and about thirty virtual 
servers, and manage everything in the building from where the fiber 
terminates in our switch to all the desktops, public PCs, etc.    You can 
run your own server on almost any Win9x/NT box with no problems at all.  Of 
course they may not allow you to do so, but technically it is very simple, 
with very inexpensive software.  Again, it all depends on your local 
politics and personalities.

cheers, and pick your battles wisely

dan






>It will be helpful to see how others are set up.
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>Thank you.
>
>susan acampora
>systems librarian
>CNR
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>Joe wrote:
>
>>   Any help posted to Tami-Jo will be of great use to
>> me also, so please either forward it to the list, or put my address in the
>> CC field.
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>> Thanks,  Joe
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> Joe H. Rose
>> rosej at flcoll.edu
>>
>> Florida College, Chatlos Library
>> 119 N. Glen Arven Ave.
>> Temple Terrace, FL  33617
>> (813) 899-6777

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