[Web4lib] get rid of the www?

[Nina McHale]

I'm wondering if anyone out there has done away with this particular 
situation as a result of the www not being necessary:  Our *library* 
home page is www.library.georgetown.edu; our *catalog* home page is 
library.georgetown.edu.  Our campus web folks have started omitting the 
www on their new sites, and we've gotten one professor complaining that 
our home page keeps changing: "sometimes it's a homepage, sometimes it's 
a keyword search" (the catalog).  Our catalog does have links to 
"library home," but I'm wondering if this kind of complaint will become 
more and more frequent.  Is it worth worrying about at this point?  At 
least one user has obviously gotten used to the lack of www.  Will the 
library look uncool? :)

If you've done away with the www, how did you deal with the catalog 
overlap, if it existed?  Is it just a matter of reconfiguring our 
catalog and web servers?

-- 
Nina McHale
Reference Librarian/Web Services Coordinator
Lauinger Library
Georgetown University
Washington, DC 20057
nlm25 at georgetown.edu
202-687-6818