Help with Implications of Library's place in University DNS

[Thomas Edelblute]

Earlier this year we change from http://www.anaheim.net/library to http://library.anaheim.net and a redirect so anyone who types in the first one automatically goes to the second.  Most people were too busy appreciating the new web site to realize the address had changed, and we had conversations months later with people who did not realize the address had been changed.

From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Kent Gerber
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 2:30 PM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Help with Implications of Library's place in University DNS

Dear Web Librarians,

Our Library is in the midst of a University-wide web redesign and during a meeting we heard that the Web Services group might be considering moving the library from it's library.bethel.edu<http://library.bethel.edu> domain to something more like www.bethel.edu/offices/library<http://www.bethel.edu/offices/library>. Is this a cause for concern?

My suspicion is that we might lose some functionality with this change but I wanted to consult your expertise before I get too riled up.

Do any of you have experience with this kind of DNS shift and is there a significant technological or functional change that I should be aware of with this issue?  Our library does not have an internal Web Services group and we depend on the University's Web Services group for these kinds of issues.

Any advice or experience is appreciated.

Kent

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Kent Gerber, MSLIS
Digital Library Manager
Bethel University
3900 Bethel Drive
Saint Paul, MN 55112
email: kent-gerber at bethel.edu<mailto:kent-gerber at bethel.edu>
phone: 651-638-6937

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