[Web4lib] Intranet revamp

[Paula Gray-Overtoom]

I think we would want to consider those same issues before we went with
anything remotely hosted.  We also have personal staff phone numbers
posted on our intranet and even though Google is great for many things,
I am not sure that I want them keeping information about our staff.

I haven't used Google docs much at all, so maybe someone else can chime
in on this, but our intranet is much more than just various types of
documents, like policies and procedures.  It's also a list of committee
meetings, training sessions, a reference blog and more.  It seems to me
that even if we were to use Google Calendar with Docs, information would
be in disparate locations that would be difficult for our staff to pull
together.  

Thanks,
Paula

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Paula Gray-Overtoom
Information Services Librarian
812-349-3050
Fax: 812-349-3051
						
Monroe County Public Library
303 E. Kirkwood Ave. 
Bloomington, IN 47408
http://www.mcpl.info

 

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[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Robin Hastings
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 5:50 PM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Intranet revamp

We use a private, password & IP address controlled Intranet still
because we do make available things like unlisted staff phone numbers
(we live in a "snow-day" state where the library closes at least once
a year due to weather - gotta have that phone number information handy
to let people know to stay home) and "problem patron" information -
complete with library card numbers sometimes.  We have a couple of
staff members who are pretty serious about keeping their numbers
unlisted and unknown to the general public. I'm not sure they would be
comfortable with that information in anything from Google. I'm not
sure our director would be interested in us posting patron information
in anything remotely hosted, either...

> > On Jan 11, 2008, at 9:32 AM, Paula Gray-Overtoom wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Our library is preparing to revamp our intranet and I am
> > wondering if any of you would be willing to let us take a
> > peek at your intranet.
> >
> > I have a few questions too and even if I can't take a look,
> > I'd like find out how other people are doing it.
> >
> > 1.  What software are you using to post content?
> >
> > 2.  How do you manage how and what gets posted?
> >
> > 3.  What are the best features of your intranet?
> >
> > 4.  What about your intranet could use some improvement?
> >
> > We've had an intranet available to our staff for about 7
> > years and have used Macromedia/Adobe's Contribute software to
> > post content for the majority of that time.  We also have a
> > blog, a wiki, dynamically generated content from in-house
> > developed scripts and static pages.  We really want to
> > consider moving to an open source CMS and want to see what
> > other libraries are doing.
> >
> > You can email me at pgrayove at mcpl.info
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Paula
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Paula Gray-Overtoom
> > Information Services Librarian
> > 812-349-3050
> > Fax: 812-349-3051
> >
> >
> > Monroe County Public Library
> > 303 E. Kirkwood Ave.
> > Bloomington, IN 47408
> > http://www.mcpl.info
> >
> >
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