WLA Web Committee Meeting
16-Jan-1997

Barb briefly reported on the WLA Board's discussions of Web issues. Discussion focused on:

• What are the issues?
• Who should decide them?
• Under what structure?
• How should units be involved?
• What standards should we have?
• What content is appropriate for the WLA web?

Possible WLA web content

• Welcome page with logo
• Messages from WLA president and executive director
• List of board members
• Unit information (or links to separate unit web pages)
• WLA conference info
• Calendar of events
• Legislative updates/issues fora
• WLA store
• Printable membership form
• People Pool form
• WLA office info

Web management issues

• Reserving WLA.ORG domain (UPDATE: WLA.ORG has been snatched up by the Washington Library Association as of 1/23/97)
• Do we need a "webmaster" parallel to the newsletter editor?
• ...or a (sub-)committee reporting to the Publications Committee?
• Relationship with WILS
  • Do they store the site and we build it?
  • Do they design and maintain the site and we pay for it?
  • What would we get for our money?
• Developing standards parallel to UW-Madison's library web standards
• Unit information: on local server? remote servers? sub-domain of WLA.ORG (see above)?