web masters in public libraries

[Shutt, Michelle Miller]

Apologies for cross-posting

We're a mid-size library with 10 branches, about 250,00 cardholders and a
web site that has been growing in leaps and bounds over the past few years.
We're up to about 300+ pages. Since the site is growing, we may need to look
at how we manage the site (and who manages the site) and I'm looking for
some feedback on how other libraries manage their web sites. Some of the
things I'm interested in are the following: is there one official "web
master" or Internet Librarian, how much time does that person spend on that
part of the job (if it isn't full time), what is that person specifically
responsible for, how much authority do they have (and where does the
authority end), is there a committee, what is the
relationship/responsibility of the committee, etc.  If you  have personnel
who do this full time, would you be willing to share job descriptions with
me? Basically, I'm looking for ANY information from similar-sized libraries
or libraries with similar-sized web sites, on how and who manages the site.
Also, what about competencies? What do you think someone in this position
should know? Could know? Doesn't need to know? Send any and all info. to me
off-list and if there's interest I'll post a summary.

Thanks so much. 

________________________
Michelle C. Miller Shutt
Technology Support Librarian II
Richland County Public Library
2001 Library of the Year 
1431 Assembly St., Columbia SC 29201
http://www.richland.lib.sc.us
(803) 929-3445