Help with Implications of Library's place in University DNS

[Thomas Dowling]

Ask them to define the benefit users will get out of this change.
You've got good tips here on possible harm or confusion the change
will cause.  It sounds like they just want URLs to reflect some org
chart, which is dimwitted. (And nearsighted: 18 months from now, some
campus unit will move into or out of "offices" and URLs will change
again.)

You might want to arm yourself with some usage statistics to back up
any argument that the library site is more of a destination, and
requires greater visibility than say, parent services or the campus
post office.  You might want to point to peer institutions that
actually put the library on the university home page, too.


Thomas Dowling
dowlintp at wfu.edu


On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Kent Gerber <kent-gerber at bethel.edu> wrote:
> 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 domain to something more like
> 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
>
> --
> Kent Gerber, MSLIS
> Digital Library Manager
> Bethel University
> 3900 Bethel Drive
> Saint Paul, MN 55112
> email: kent-gerber at bethel.edu
> phone: 651-638-6937
>
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